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Vine, Twitter's New Video App, Is Already Causing Problems

Amanda Ferris — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:02:19 +0000

Twitter has unveiled their easy-to-use new video app for both the iPhone and iTouch called 'Vine.' This app allows users to post short videos (about 6 seconds each) to their Twitter account, Facebook account, or even to the Vine community.

OKCupid's Blind Date App Is Pretty Creepy

Amanda Ferris — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:28:54 +0000

While Tumblr’s ‘NiceGuysofOKCupid’ is now sadly defunct, the online dating site OKCupid has gotten even creepier with the release of their new blind date app. This can’t possibly end well. The app is called ’Crazy Blind Date’ and is available for both iPhone and Android. It works like this: the user picks both the venue and the [...]

Test Your Eyesight With the Superb Vision Test App

Lisa Bernier — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:30:31 +0000

Have you ever wondered whether you were colorblind or just needed glasses, but you're not sure if an appointment with the eye doctor is warranted? Well, with the Vision Test App, all you need is your phone to know if you need to start trying on frames.

Have You Ever Been Confused by Text Message Abbreviations? — Survey of the Day

Jeremy Taylor — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:00:54 +0000

Thanks to text messages, and now Twitter and Facebook, a whole new language of abbreviations has developed. But if you don’t know your IMHOs from your YOLOs, you are not alone. According to a SecurEnvoy survey of 1,000 adults, 60 percent admit that they don’t always understand text message abbreviations sent their way. “Given that 60 percent have received a text that they didn’t [...]

Diary App Brings Diaries Into the 21st Century

Lisa Bernier — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:54:14 +0000

If you want to write in a diary, but don’t want to carry around an actual, physical, heavy book (or are tired of LiveJournal), then Memoires: The Diary is the app for you. Brought to you by Victor Nakonechny, Memoires: The Diary App is the way to go to keep a chronicle of your day-to-day [...]

Toilet Seats Are Cleaner Than Cell Phones?

Trudy — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:05:18 +0000

You might want to do a little cleaning on your phone, whatever kind you have. Toilet seats actually have less germs than cellphones do. Can that really be true? Yes, says Microboiologist Charles Gerba. He tells LiveScience.com that toilet seats are cleaned alot but most phones are rarely if ever cleaned. People think [...]

eHarmony's Bad Date Rescue App Does Exactly What You Think It Does

Amy Sciarretto — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:39:03 +0000

There are few things more uncomfortable than bad dates, except maybe bad dates arranged via online dating services. Never fear, though, because eHarmony, the successful web-based dating site, has arranged for backup. It’s launched the free Bad Date Rescue app which allows a call to come through on a user’s iPhone and help free them [...]

Why Are So Many Teenagers 'Sexting' Naughty Photos of Themselves?

Shauna Wright — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:36:30 +0000

Parents of teenagers, if you need something new to worry about, we’re here to help: a new study reveals a third of 14- to 19-year-olds have “sexted” nude pictures of themselves to other teens using their cell phones. The study of almost 1,000 Texas teens found that while they’re irritated when they’re asked to send [...]

Study Shows Siri May Not Be As Smart As It Thinks It Is

Danny Gallagher — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:00:57 +0000

Apple’s Siri app turned a lot of heads and ears when the iPhone 4S first hit the shelves. The voice controlled app looked and sounded like something from an Arthur C. Clarke novel.

However, it may not bring us any closer to having a real HAL 9000 computer (and considering what happened in ’2001: A Space Odyssey,’ maybe we should be thankful for that).

Smartphones Are the Chic New Way to Keep Babies Quiet

Shauna Wright — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:01:30 +0000

In years past, parents would often quiet a crying child by giving him a toy or popping a pacifier in his mouth. But these days, it’s more likely that fussy kid will wind up with mom’s cell phone instead.

Boston Teen Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Texting and Driving

Mike Adams — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:01:29 +0000

A Boston, Massachusetts teen has been sentenced to two years in prison after being found guilty of causing a fatal car crash due to texting and driving. Eighteen-year-old Aaron Deveau was convicted of motor vehicle homicide by texting in an incident where his vehicle crossed the center line and crashed head on into 55-year-old David [...]

Town Complains about Ticketing Pedestrians [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:45:56 +0000

You’ve probably seen the countless YouTube videos of people so transfixed by their mobile phones that they walk into inanimate objects or fall into fountains.

And while it’s easy to laugh at such incidents, the truth is that distracted pedestrians can cause serious harm to themselves or other people — and now one New Jersey town is taking a stand.

GameFly Starts Giving Out Free and Discounted Mobile Games

Phil Villarreal — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:00:03 +0000

GameFly really wishes it could get subscribers to cough up a monthly fee to play things like Angry Birds Space and Ziggurat, but its mad scientists have yet to find a way to stick a game disc or cartridge into your iPhone.

So the Netflix of Gaming is trying the next best thing — giving out free and cheap games via its iOS app.

Eat, Drink and Be Tech Savvy — TGI Friday's Lets Customers Pay with Smartphones

Danny Gallagher — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:30:02 +0000

Smartphones can do just about anything these days. They let us send and receive emails, access social media, take and send pictures and play countless video games. TGI Friday’s is about to add one more option. The restaurant has implemented a new feature in more than half of their franchises that will let their customers [...]

7 Amazing Apps That Will Help You Get the Best Night of Sleep Ever

Maura Chwastyk — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:01:36 +0000

Many of us have become so addicted to our phones that we can’t stand having to put them down, even when we’re driving. If you’re one of the technologically obsessed who hates to be parted from your phone even to sleep, you’re in luck. With a slew of apps to help you get a good [...]

See Through Walls With A Cell Phone

Patrick Bateman — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:08:33 +0000

Peeping toms, perverts, and wannabe superheroes rejoice! Researchers at the University of Texas – Dallas have designed an imager chip that could turn mobile phones into devices that can see through walls, wood, plastics, paper and other objects. The research team made use of a band on the electromagnetic spectrum (think AM/FM, microwave, infrared and not [...]

6 Camera Apps for Your Phone That Will Turn You into a World-Class Photographer

Maura Chwastyk — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:10:11 +0000

Being able to have instant professional quality photos used to mean lugging around a truckload of filters and lenses, not to mention a portable darkroom. Not anymore. These days, those amazing pictures are as close as your phone. With a bunch of great camera apps, you can now take the photos you’ve dreamed of, without [...]

Man Gets Refund from T-Mobile After 'Email Carpet Bomb' to Executives — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:49:27 +0000

Having a service-related issue that no one can seem to do anything about? You don’t have to take it lying down. Sometimes you just have to escalate matters yourself. A T-Mobile customer named Sam, who’s had a smartphone and data plan with the company since 2009, noticed his device had snail-slow internet connectivity. He first [...]