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May 5, 2015
German car manufacturer Volkswagen today announced that it’s joining the ranks of companies offering an Apple Watch app to go along with its broader mobile service. VW’s Car-Net…
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Snapchat’s Discover feature feels like the awkward guy in a nice suit at a casual party. Discover’s professionally made content from CNN, Comedy Central, Food Network, and others…
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There are already over 3,500 Apple Watch apps available on the market, but it’s unclear which ones will stick around for the long haul, and which will be…
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Foursquare has today released an update for Swarm, the company’s social check-in app, that brings far more of the delightful gamification of the old Foursquare back to the…
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QR codes have been a laughing-stock for years now. The gangly square bar codes were slapped on posters and magazine pages, and heralded as an easy way to…
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The newfound ability to put entire MS-DOS games hosted by the Internet Archive inside tweets, and then play them back in Twitter’s official web client, is now gone.…
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File-sharing service Droplr is adopting a freemium business model starting tomorrow. Read More Powered by WPeMatico
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It used to be that when shoppers were interested in learning about the latest sales from their favorite local stores, they would turn to the printed circulars that…
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One of the hacks from our Disrupt NY Hackathon already has a customer: in less than 24 hours, Gruberie set up a site, built an app, and convinced…
Read articleMay 2, 2015
You’ve been able to use your voice (“Ok Google”) to do all sorts of stuff on Android for a while now. But said stuff has all been built-in…
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