Newspaper puts its offerings on a mobile platform with a new app released at appcatch.com. The ABQ Journal app has earned appsbar.com’s App of the Day as an example of how small businesses, artists, and publishers are using the DIY app builder at appsbar.com to bring their endeavors into the mobile age. The app serves as [...]
Glu Mobile, the successful app development studio behind blockbuster hits like Deer Hunter, Contract Killer and Gun Bros, is back again with a game that's sure to be popular among both the young and old. The company has been tasked with creating the accompanying "free to play" game for the forthcoming a RoboCop movie. With [...]
As we continue to focus on the quantified self, this is just the sort of device to serve as a companion to the various other health tracking wearables - the Fitbits and the Nike Fuel Bands of the world. The wearables can tell you how an when, while the Pyle Bluetooth Digital Weight Personal Health Scale can give you a detailed breakdown of the results.
We have smartphones, smart watches, Google Glass, Fitbits, but the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS wants to usher in the next wave of smart products as early as next year. The Fraunhofer Institute's FitnessSHIRT measures and tracks vital signs and physiological signals
Were you raised on Lara Croft and Tomb Raider? Croft has made such an impact in video gaming since arriving on the scene in 1996 that video games giant Gamestop has her listed in their executive leadership team as the Executive Vice President of Tomb Raiding and Relic Recovery. Yes most everyone who had a [...]
As the holiday shopping period is just about at the home stretch, we have a couple last minute ideas. As smart watches are set exploding in popularity, here are some great examples to consider.
Do you use Whisper? Loosely, Whisper is an app that features thousands and thousands of personal memes. These aren't the funny kind that get posted in your Facebook feed 100 times a day. They are often more "real". Sometimes Whispers are thought provoking, and sometimes they are just odd. That's all because Whisper gives users [...]
Restaurant caters to mobile clientele with new app released at appcatch.com A Batavia, IL restaurant has earned the appsbar.com App of the Day honor by showcasing how small businesses have used the DIY app builder to market products and services through mobile devices. The Thai Village app puts the restaurant’s menu on a mobile [...]
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has sent letters to the CEO's of Sprint, Verizon Wireless, AT&T and United States Cellular Corporation (US Cellular). In the letters, Schneiderman is asking why the carriers are refusing to adopt a proposal from Samsung to offer a new smartphone feature called "Kill Switch". Schneiderman has questioned publicly whether [...]
Were you one of the tens of millions of customers that shopped at your local Target store over the Black Friday shopping weekend? Well if you were, you may want to read this and then immediately check your online banking. Reuters reported late Wednesday evening that "track data" from at least 1 million payment cards [...]
