BOKU, a mobile payments company that offers carrier billing on 230 operators around the world, has today announced that its 1-Tap billing solution for Android has now gone live. The new commercial release is available in 56 countries, a big jump up from the small handful it supported while in beta. In addition, the...
You know those websites that have a clear idea behind them, a vision that is so strong that it just works? Lockerz.com, which took Plixi’s Twitter upload service and turned it into something more, isn’t one of those websites. Well. That’s not exactly true. You can say a lot about Lockerz.com (and I will), but...
Skype, still in the midst of being swallowed up by Microsoft, just announced that video chat is finally coming to Android devices, though to only a limited selection of devices so far. The feature is part of a big update for the Android app that includes a UI redesign that adds usability to the app. The video chat feature will...
Google has been given two weeks to amend its Android app refund policy by Taipei City government officials after the search giant’s policy counsel Kenneth Carter met with city figures to discuss the ongoing dispute on Thursday. After receiving a warning from the government earlier in the month, Google suspended downloads of paid apps on...
The idea behind Pic3D film is as magical-sounding as it is straightforward. Apply it to a screen of your choosing, and in conjunction with a piece of software to re-render the image, you have an instant glasses-free 3D display. It works by using lenticular lens technology, and Wikipedia tells us that a lenticular lens...
Microsoft is on a roll. Onkyo is the latest company to trade Android tablet royalties for access to Microsoft’s patent licensing program. The details of the agreement wasn’t released. This makes Onkyo the third company this week that has signed such an agreement. Velocity Micro and General Dynamic’s Itronix brand joined the club just...
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Hoping to catch the eyes and hearts of wayward travelers, Google has recently announced a promotional campaign for their Chromebook in conjunction with ACE Hotel New York and Virgin America. From July 1 – September 30th, 2011, Virgin America passengers can give the Chromebook their own “test-flight” while in-flight, or at select airport gates....
It’s difficult to find a more fitting corporate name than PHP Fog. It’s cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service with a laser focus on PHP applications. The fogginess comes from the innate nature of the cloud and, more specifically, PaaS, where code enters the mist on one side and running applications emerge on the other. It’s what...
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