The future of mobile payments has the potential to invade your senses. MasterCard is showing off what could be the next wave of innovation in payments this afternoon at an event in New York City. Imagine being able to wave at your TV and order a order a pizza. Or get a coupon because...
If there’s one thing that events such as the recent riots in Britain and protests in California have shown, it’s that mobile devices and social tools like Twitter and YouTube have effectively made everyone into a journalist, something we have argued in favor of at GigaOM. But not everyone likes this trend, and we’re...
The iPad gaming community is big and getting bigger, according to a new report from market research firm Interpret. Total iPad gamers number 8 million out of 11.4 million iPad owners in the U.S. alone, according to Interpret. It’s a growing community in terms of both straight numbers and also in terms of percentage...
We want more information and we want it now, so technologists are racing to keep up. On Thursday, Infinera said it will support 5 terabits of capacity on its latest gear, while a startup just scored $19 million to make data flow faster across chips. From the long haul to microscopic hops, scientists are...
Inkstagram, a third-party Web client for beloved iPhone photo-sharing app Instagram, has added user-created hashtag albums to its browser-based photo gallery. Instagram offers hashtags as a way of browsing photos, but Inkstagram’s galleries are an original feature built on top of them. Users can create galleries for hashtags as persistent, shareable Web pages that...
Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. It’s called “Developer Preview” for a reason: Microsoft wants professional developers to be the first to...
In honor of the Iron Man Triathlon in Hawaii, Panasonic has created a tiny EVolt mascot that will run, swim, and bike the course’s full 142 miles in about a week. The teeny little robot will run on EVolt batteries and, since he’s 10 times smaller than a human, he gets to take much...
About halfway through the first month in which customers are faced with a new pricing scheme, Netflix has lowered its subscriber forecast for the quarter. The headline number showed 1 million fewer customers expected for the third quarter, which means that Netflix will lose subscribers for the first time in four years. But take...
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A new integration from Facebook and Heroku gives Facebook developers direct access to Heroku’s cloud Platform-as-a-Service offering for hosting their applications. The goal is to make life as easy as possible for developers by eliminating hassles associated with actually running an application once it’s written. And it’s likely just a first step for Heroku...