The guys behind the popular shopping app, Shopkick has announced that they now have over 3 million active users and have now offered more than a billion deals to them.
For those who don’t know, Shopkick is an app that is running through your phone’s location based services to offer you deals on stores you’re inside of. So you can get discounts from grocery items while on Target or maybe rewards to your next shoe purchase the next time you visit Footlocker.
Asus has just announced that it will be rolling out the Android Ice Cream Sandwich for the Asus Transformer Prime. This is certainly great news for users as it will bring all the goodies that the ICS have in store for Android users.
Unfortunately, no change log has been released as of yet but we hear that the device’s Tegra 3 processor will handle the update beautifully better than the Galaxy Nexus.
You can check out the update from your device through it’s Software update settings.
The BBC has today unveiled it’s plans of switching from Flash to HTML5 with all it’s videos across all their sites. This is a big move for the company and good news to everyone who owns an HTML5 only device like iOS devices inlcuding the iPhone and the iPad.
No timeline has been given out but we could suspect that this plan will come to completion by mid next year if all goes well.
A number of companies have been hopping on the HTML5 wagon which include Amazon’s Lovefilm and more.
Nuance has announced today that they have finalized their talks and has sign an agreement to buy Vlingo. For those who don’t know, Vlingo is an app which specializes in providing a voice assistant for your calls and other phone functions using voice activation.
This move certainly has something to do with Apple and Siri as some of you know that Apple bought Nuance a few months ago for that same reason.
Unfortunately, we have very information on the details of the sale and what Nuance specifically wants with Vlingo but I’m guessing it’s the latter’s patent portfolio that the former really wants.
The Sound Cover is a recently released case that provides a louder audio source for your tablet device via it’s headphones port. The cover promises to boost your iPad 2′s audio by 300 percent using it’s built-in NXT speakers.
The accessory is still in it’s prototype stages and is developed by Petur Hannes Olafsson. You can find the accessory over at KickStarter.
Sound Cover needs $35,000 to get it into production.
Apple has reportedly lost a patent case against a company in China over the name iPad. This means Apple would have to change the name of their tablet device to something else if they want to avoid paying $1.5 billion in damages to the company.
It’s Apple’s decision at this point and it’s up to them if they are willing to pay the said amount just to keep selling the device in China under the same name. What do you think? Would Apple go as far as paying $1.5 billion just to keep the name in such a big market?
If you could recall, an Australian court has lifted the ban of Samsung Galaxy Tab last week which prompted the company to set a December 2 launch of their new Galaxy Tab. That appears to have been stopped as the court gave Apple another week to appeal their case.
That’s another week of Holiday sales down the drain for the Korean-based company as it moved the ban until December 9. The real hearing will start on Spring of next year and that’s why Samsung is working round the clock to overthrow the injunction of not allowing Samsung to sell its Galaxy Tab until then as soon as possible.
There’s no shortage of accessories for mobile phones let alone the iPhone, and here’s another one that may cater to a specialized market segment. The iPhone microscope is available for $25 and will serve as a magnifier that could zoom in on anything by 100x.
The device attaches to your camera lenses and sports its own back cover and an LED powered through the iPhone’s dock connector.The device is available from the Apple Retail Store and other leading electronic shops.
