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Domino's Pizza App Lets You Make Pizzas and Order Them
Domino's Pizza has found a unique way to interact with iPad users and sell some pizzas in the process. The pizza restaurant has partnered with Crispin Porter + Bogusky ad agency to develop an app that allows users to make a pizza onscreen and even order them in real life. The Domino's Pizza Hero simulates the experience of its workers as they learn the basics of creating its famous pizzas. As a pl... [Read More]
Pakistan Plans to Block "Jesus Christ," 1,600 Others in Text Messages
Pakistan's telecommunication office has ordered its mobile carriers to block text messages that contain words from a list of over 1,600 "obscene" terms. Although the executive order began on November 21, the mobile carriers decided to defer it for now as they seek clarification from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The new policy, as well as the list of forbidden words, was leaked to th... [Read More]
Amazon Offers All Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint Phones for One Penny
Amazon is taking its traditional one-penny smartphone sale to the next level, making the hearts of frugal folks filled with joy. The web retailer has decided, for a limited time only, to offer every phone under Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T for just $0.01. Hurry up and snatch yourself some Galaxy S II Skyrocket, Droid RAZR, and HTC Rezound among others for just one penny before November 28. But as... [Read More]
CloudFTP WiFi Device
While most devices nowadays are going the wireless route, there may still be other portable devices that do not have that capacity such as USB flash and external drives. Although such drives are quite useful, they don't usually provide a wireless feature that will make them even better. One other thing is that USB portable drives are not always supported by all devices that you use. A good alterna... [Read More]
Adobe To Stop Mobile Flash Development
Adobe has recently announced that it is pulling the plug on further developments of its Mobile Flash. It is instead concentrating on developing efforts on HTML5. As you well know, Adobe Flash has long been a standard used for watching videos on the Web. It is a required plug-in to watch Web content that relies on Adobe Flash. But times are now changing. While Adobe Flash has made its mark on the W... [Read More]
Android Snags 40 Percent Of US Smartphone Users
With smartphone getting more and more popular nowadays, it is no wonder that it is one of the rising market segments in the mobile phone sector in the US. It seems that basic feature phones are slowly being overtaken by smartphones in terms of appeal. According to new information from Nielsen, there are now 40 percent of mobile users in the US who own smartphones. New data furnished by Nielsen ind... [Read More]
Smartphone App Predicts Incoming Traffic Light
Researchers from MIT and Princeton have collaborated and come up with a smartphone application that can predict whether the incoming traffic light would be red, green, or yellow once the driver reaches it. The SignalGuru app works by mounting the smartphone onto the car's dashboard. Then, the app captures images of traffic lights, which are analyzed based on the lights it flashed. Finally, the dat... [Read More]
Samsung to Buy webOS?
A report from DigiTimes claims that Samsung may be considering to buy webOS from HP in an effort to compete against Apple and fellow Android phone makers. Adding the fact that Google plans to acquire Motorola (and its treasure throve of patents), this has surely changed the way mobile phone companies do business. DigiTimes seems to stand by its scoop, despite Samsung refuting reports that it plans... [Read More]
Kno Redeems Itself as a Facebook App
Tech company Kno may had its bumpy start when it attempted to develop a dual-screen tablet. The textbook-like tablet was very unsuccessful, which eventually lead to Kno's selling off its hardware division. Since then, Kno reinvents itself as a software company. It first brought an educational e-book store to the iPad and now the company is bringing the store to a whole new market: Students with Fa... [Read More]
Facebook Messenger App Launched, Puts SMS to Shame
Without any fanfare, Facebook has released a mobile application separate from its main app. The Facebook Messenger, which works for both iOS and Android, merges the Beluga group messaging project that FB acquired last February with its newly-designed Messages product. It is like Facebook, but solely focuses on messaging your contacts. But why a separate, stand-alone messaging app? Apparently, Face... [Read More]