If you're hip enough to be walking down your city streets with a Samsung Galaxy Gear 2, Gear Neo or even Galaxy Gear, and you have a Paypal account, then you're in for a treat. Paypal is testing a new payment method on their campus that links together Bluetooth low energy beacons and Samsung Galaxy [...]
The world is still brimming with big ideas, many of which will be fully realized in our lifetime. There is more than enough reason to be optimistic and excited about the near future. However, big ideas require small tools and ground-level construction. Before rockets are launched into space, a lot of this has to take [...]
North Carolina-based self-storage company engages in mobile marketing Secured Storage has earned appsbar.com’s App of the Day award for showcasing how small businesses are utilizing the no-cost app builder at appsbar.com to engage in mobile marketing initiatives. The app serves as the mobile platform for Secured Self Storage in Ashville, NC, a firm providing quality [...]
Dropbox announced earlier this week that they have acquired the iOS photo sharing app Loom. By May 16th Dropbox plans to merge the Loom team into their own Carousel team. Carousel is their photo product. The collective photo offering will continue to offer customers storage for their photos and ways to preview photos in their [...]
One look at the headline and you may be thinking that someone had created some kind of Bluetooth or GPS enabled sensor to track their boyfriend. While there are a variety of tools out there that could do that, that's not the case here. A new app has hit the iTunes App Store called Boyfriend [...]
Uber, the on demand black car app, is widely known for it's good service and it's price gouging, or surge, as they call it. They're also known for throwing some great parties. At this past weekends Coachella music festival they got the chance to blend both. There's a wide variety of Uber photos from Coachella [...]
I'm used to seeing copycat startups. It's something that has been going on for years. Typically I give a startup or new innovative tech company a chance to show me that they're like Apple. You see, although I use all Apple products, it's always a refreshing reminder when helping new companies, to point out that [...]
The internet of things explosion continued at OneSpark. We saw several different creator projects that would fit into the wide net of "internet of things". One of those things was Miami based company Verti Labs and their Verti Bluetooth finder. There are several other Bluetooth finders around today. You can find some on the market [...]
We told you a little bit about Bycle a few days ago, but the company was pretty secretive in the run up to One Spark. On Thursday, however, we got a chance to see the real, final product. It did not disappoint. Put quite simply, Bycle is both a mount to attach your smartphone to [...]
Joe Ryan and the team at LineVent are addressing the needs of bar, club and restaurant owners everywhere with their new app. LineVent is an app that marries the event app and crowd activated discounts in one fluid, easy to use and understand app. The app is free to download in the Google Play Store [...]
