I go to Starbucks pretty often, I’m a big fan of their iPhone app that allows me to pay for my coffee by having the barista scan a code on my screen. The process is quick and easy and I have fun earning stars and checking the balance of all my gift cards. By next year, a scan-less method will be more popular and available with more merchants and on more phones.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was open-sourced to Android Open Source Project (AOSP) a few days ago and folks from the Android modding community are had at work to port it over to as-of-yet unsupported devices. The Nexus S, which is certain to get an official update to Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) from Google itself, has already received a AOSP-based ICS custom ROM from the community. The one we’ll be talking about in this post is said to be stable enough for daily use, so if you’ve got a Nexus S available, you should definitely give this a try! Check out the details after jump!
As the month of March nears us, rumors of the next generation iPad are getting stronger and stronger. According to an analyst report published yesterday, production for iPad 3’s Retina Display has begun! Details after the jump!
Oddly, one of the most controversial changes to Apple's music and now iOS app management application, iTunes, to happen over the last couple of years is its new icon. Some don't mind it. Some can tolerate it. Some plain old despise it.
As soon as the Thanksgiving turkey has been consumed, many will prepare for the next holiday of sorts, Black Friday. This year it falls on November 25th and will be the day where many retailers go from being in the red, to making a profit for the year and being in the black. On Black Friday morning, stores will open early offering amazing deals to those who were lucky enough to be first in line.
Facebook has been actively seeking to tap into the smartphone market for quite some time, and it seems everything is now in place for the concept to become reality.
Although we know precious little of what's in store for Apple's next tablet offering, that hasn't stopped various rumors and speculation circulating around the Web.
Google has just released an update to its coveted iOS search app, with improved iPad UI as well as full-screen mode for the iPhone.
Earlier this month, Adobe made an announcement of its plans to cease development of Flash on mobile browsers. Instead, they would refocus their efforts on the Steve Jobs supported browser technology of HTML5, which can basically display the same content as Flash, but without the need of a plugin.
If the rumor mill carries anything of significance, Samsung's yet-to-be-announced Galaxy S III could boast an impressive quad-core Exynos 4412 CPU - a move which would really throw down the gauntlet to rival manufacturers.
