U.S. Bank has been testing an NFC-enabled mobile payments service in 20 different markets, spanning several U.S. states, according to Dominic Venturo, Chief Innovation Officer for U.S. Bank Payment Services. The program was being trialed by bank employees who were also bank customers. However, the company won't disclose the exact number...
Poet arrested by Bahrain security. After reciting a satirical poem during the Bahraini protests, Ayat Al-Qormezi was arrested. Her parents were tortured by gunmen, who told them their four sons, who had been forced face-down onto the floor, would be murdered before their eyes if they were not told where...
Today Google announced a new version of its Google Apps Device Policy app for Android. New features include the ability to locate a lost or stolen Android device on a map, and remotely reset the PIN or password. The new version also includes the ability to encrypt all data stored...
Cloud-oriented operating systems like Chrome OS, Jolicloud and Peppermint OS can run on low-end hardware and provide an alternative to desktop virtualization infrastructure (VDI). Instead of running a desktop environment on a central server, the desktop is displaced entirely in favor of Web applications. This approach does away with the...
It's been a little over a year now that I've had my iPhone and I've become so used to the simple way that it works, I've begun complaining. "There's little to no customization," I might rattle off one day. "I can't stand Apple's App Store policies," I'll muse the next....
Wildly popular public radio show This American Life has released an app for the iPad (iTunes link). The app was built by the Public Radio Exchange, the same organization that built the fabulous Public Radio Player iPhone app two years ago.How is the iPad app? It's ok. It's certainly worth...
Employees may be bringing iPhones and iPads into work, but that doesn't take Microsoft out of the game. SharePoint is still a wildly popular enterprise platform. An InfoTech survey on enterprise collaboration last year found that 73% of its respondents were using SharePoint. Maybe new collaboration and knowledge sharing platforms will eventually...
SeeClickFix allows community members to report and track on non-emergency issues they see, notifying local municipalities when there's a problem that needs to be fixed. SeeClickFix helps bring attention to the sorts of issues that local governments might not otherwise know about or pay attention to: potholes, graffiti, illegal dumping,...
At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia. Andrew Wong,...
Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin has taken to the official Android Developers blog to defend Google's commitment to the "openness" of the Android mobile platform. The move was likely prompted by last week's Bloomberg Businessweek article, which, citing nearly a dozen executive-level sources, claimed that Google is now exercising more...
In Android market share news, analysts at Gartner are now forecasting the Google-created mobile operating system will reach 49% smartphone market share by the end of 2012, based on handset sales. By the end of this year (2011), Android will be the most popular operating system in the world, as...
We love it when Computerworld's JR Raphael releases his comprehensive, research-backed articles about things Android users and developers care about, like this analysis of trustworthy manufacturers posted in January. (Our coverage of that news here.) This week, he has updated his list of Android phones getting Gingerbread, complete with links...
Peer-to-peer music streaming app Grooveshark has had an-again off-again relationship with mobile providers. Last summer, the service hit iOS only to be pulled from the app store just days later.Today, Google booted the app from the Android Market in "a move that comes after some of the top music labels...
Pioneering Internet of Things startup, Pachube, is running a global hackathon starting on April 8, 2011 at 2pm U.K. time. Internet of Things (IoT) is a term for when real world objects and environments get connected to the Internet. The hackathon runs for 24 hours and will bring together over...
Convofy, the new enterprise collaboration platform we covered last month, opens to the public today. It's launching using a freemium model similar to Yammer's, so you can try it out for free.We got a demo from CEO Faizan Buzdar yesterday, and it's a solid product. It's unique, fast and has...
Zoho has brought its popular online productivity tools Zoho Docs to the iPad.The app is designed to give you mobile access to your Zoho documents, including those created in Zoho Writer, Sheet, Show, and Docs (the word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications). You can also view shared documents via the...
The first day I used the HTC HD7 running Windows Phone 7, the new mobile operating system from Microsoft, I couldn't log into Foursquare. A friend on Twitter told me the issue had been going on for almost a week. The Foursquare support Twitter account had tweeted to those who asked...
Novell has announced the general availability of Mono for Android today, the solution that lets developers use Windows technologies like C# and .NET to build Android applications. We previously reported on Mono for Android's launch in January of this year, when the preview program opened up for testing after the...
This morning, Portland-based Urban Airship commercially launched its In-App Purchasing Product for Android. The company describes the service as a "last mile" offering for developers that simplifies the process of integrating in-app purchasing features within Android applications. The new service is similar to Urban Airship's in-app purchases services for iOS, which...
An article in The New York Times this weekend asked if the iPhone could revive the home movie, noting that photo apps like Instagram, PicPlz, and Path had added "cool effects to amateur cellphone pictures, transforming them into bite-size pieces of art" and had made mobile photography a big business.Certainly...
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