Are smartphones ready to replace credit cards?
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Smartphones, alreadysmarter than most people expected, are starting to take on their most critical new task yet: the ability to be used for payment.
Category: Mobile
Apple’s iMessage vs. RIM’s BlackBerry Messenger
By Ted Kritsonis
In spite of RIM’s troubling times, the company’s BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service remains highly popular, and is arguably one of the last bastions of loyalty keeping some consumers from defecting. Apple created iMessage as an answer to BBM, but how well does it stack up?
Check for pre-owned or refurb bargains before buying a new laptop
By Ted Kritsonis
Buying used or refurbished may not seem like the best way to get a new laptop, but a real gem can be found for the right price.
Next Steps in Smartphone Security
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Since smartphones are quickly replacing PCs as the personal communication device of choice, the need to secure our mobile devices has become critical.
Microsoft pushes Xbox 360 as future TV platform with new apps
By Ted Kritsonis
Microsoft is giving the Xbox 360 a bit of an overhaul with a new-look interface and a lineup of new entertainment applications that essentially turns the console into an entertainment platform with TV and music content, including live events.
How the iPad won 2011’s ‘Tablet War’
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Apple’s iPad continues to dominate the tablet space it had created a year ago despite the waves of competing tablets that hit the market hoping to challenge the leader.
TomTom’s HD Traffic service offers in-car GPS with real-time updates
By Ted Kritsonis
TomTom’s new HD Traffic service can change your route when it sees that your commuting time is about to increase because of congestion, construction or any other stoppage that leads to gridlock.
Wi-Fi in schools – the health debate continues
By Lee Rickwood
If there were only seven cell phone users in the entire world, this issue would not have the same ramifications or potential impacts.
But it seems like the goal is seven billion users – and in that light it does seem incumbent upon us to know about potential health risks, not to speculate or to wonder or to debate.