Amazon Prime Goes After Costco and Sam’s Club with Amazon Pantry
In the latest chapter of Amazon's quest to dominate retail, the company is said to be launching a new wholesale service - similar to what Costco and Sams Club offer - in 2014.
Sprint is Reportedly Mulling a $20B Offer to Purchase T-Mobile
According to several reports, Sprint is preparing a $20B offer to buy T-Mobile
Gmail Says “No” To Yesware, Sort Of!
Earlier in the day we reported that Google just made "improvements" to Gmail. Google has aded the ability to immediately render photos in email messages you receive from their highly popular service. Previously, Gmail users would receive an email with big blank white spaces that would ask you if you wanted to see the images [...]
Images Get A Boost In Gmail Too
Images seem to be all the rage this week. Yesterday we reported that Twitter is now allowing images to be served through it's direct messaging feature. Earlier today we reported that Instagram has added a new Instagram Direct feature, that also allows you to serve up images through direct messages. Well one service that hasn't, [...]
Trolls Rejoice as Twitter Adds Photo-Sharing to DMs
Tuesday, in a move that will surely result in untold amounts of inappropriate photos, Twitter announced that they have added the ability to send photos in direct messages. Luckily, they also removed the option to receive DMs from anyone last month or this could have gotten very ugly, very fast.
Indiegogo To Help New Campaign Creators With “Playbook”
With over 150,000 successfully funded projects on the crowd funding platform Indiegogo, the company has a lot of data they can share on best practices with people new to crowdfunding. As crowdfunding continues to explode both Kickstarter and Indiegogo are leading the pack and definitely have the largest audience and the biggest amount of projects [...]
Worker’s Dying At iPhone 5C Supplier Pegatron
A Taiwanese supplier for Apple's iPhone 5C called Pegatron has come under fire after a 15 year old worker passed away from pneumonia. The 15 year old worker, Shi Zhaokun, checked into a hospital on October 9th and shortly after was pronounced dead. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that while Zhaokun had identification paper that [...]
Child Advocacy Group Calls For Recall Of Fisher Price’s iPad Baby Seat
The Newborn to Toddler Apptivity Seat for iPad, from Fisher Price, seems like a reasonably cool idea. An iPad is mounted above the child's head so they can enjoy videos, music and even apps when they're old enough. The seat looks like a normal "grow with me seat" and features a toy bar with plastic [...]
T-Mobile Drops Down Payments On iPhones, iPads & Top Samsung Devices To $0
T-Mobile was the first American carrier to implement the installment payment on devices. Now, both AT&T and Verizon have followed suit, but not nearly as good as the T-Mobile deals. "Well qualified" customers can pay a monthly payment (often under $29 a month) towards their device for 24 months. At anytime during the "financing" period [...]
Illinois Legislator Looks To Preemptively Ban Google Glass While Driving
As more and more people become familiar with the forthcoming Google Glass, the wearable, Android powered smart glasses are drawing attention from state and local governments. Google Glass has been in a large scale beta with a group of early adopters and Google developers. This group was able to purchase the "explorer edition" of Google [...]