If you’re the lucky owner of a Nokia Lumia 800, there is an update for your device rolling out now that should fix some issues that users have been reporting. The update, as posted on the Nokia Conversations blog, will be showing up for users over the course of the next two weeks. Nokia...
Craig Newmark, best known as the man behind the aptly named Craigslist recently launched a philanthropic sister site, Craigconnects. To celebrate his 59th birthday, he’s decided to take his philanthropic efforts one step further, with the help of Twitter. Newmark is calling for people to take to social network Twitter and to let their...
In the rare case when a hardcore gamer does indeed have to stand up and leave the house, sometimes we can get that feeling of separation anxiety. If this matches you, and you also happen to carry an iPhone, today’s a good day because Microsoft has just released the My Xbox Live app for your iOS...
Have you heard of charitybuzz? Well you should. The for-profit company in NYC raises funds for nonprofits through very cool online auctions with celebrities, influencers and brands. Since its launch in 2005, charitybuzz has raised $50 million. charitybuzz is taking an interesting go-between angle in the online charity world. The company basically hooks nonprofits up with...
If you’ve read Twitter’s Year In Review, you already know this: although the cliché says that users only tweet what they had for lunch, the reality is that the micro-blogging platform has also become an echoing chamber for news and political debates around the world. But how does it turn out in authoritarian regimes...
According to a video by the Nissan Technology Magazine (NTM), The Nissan Leaf, a highly anticipated 100% electric car, has enough battery storage to power an average Japanese home* for two days. Essentially, this means you could use your car as a generator during emergencies, share electricity with a friend in need, and eventually...
Facebook has today announced a new app for Android that it claims is faster and easier to use. The app allows you to view photos and albums up to two times faster, as well as making it easier to share, caption and comment on your Android device. The messages and notifications have moved to...
If you’ve ever wished that there was an easy way to highlight only the best parts of a YouTube video, you’re going to love Snipreel. The app, a project by Toronto-based LeanIn, lets you take any YouTube video and “snip” it into sections which will then be patched together automatically. Snipreel is, essentially, a...
The Android team is rolling out a new version of Google+ for the platform, and it includes a few features to keep it in line with its iOS counterpart. Search is the big feature in Android’s latest version, a glaring hole in the app until now. Search has really opened up Google+, and the...
Get your clicking fingers ready! These boys are going to go fast. Starting Sunday, December 11th at 6:00 p.m. Central time, 16GB and 32GB Touchpads will be available on HP’s ebay store. Look for them in the laptop section. As you would expect, there are some caveats with this deal. Chief among the small...