Month: May 2014

Buy.com via Rakuten Shopping offers the Pogoplug Multimedia Sharing Device in Black, model no. POGO-P21, for $9.99 with free shipping. That’s $5 under our mention from Black Friday week and the best price we’ve ever seen for this device. (It’s also a current price low by $39.) This device connects […] Read the original post…

With price varying by ZIP code and for in-store pickup only, Walmart offers the Samsung 60″ 1080p Plasma HD Television, model no. PN60F5300AFXZA, for $728. That’s $72 under our mention from four weeks ago and the lowest price we’ve ever seen. (It’s also a current low by $120.) Features include […] Read the original post…

Foursquare, the app that lets you check-in to places you visit, is in the middle of a transition from a check-in service to a location discovery engine. As part of this transition, the company’s splitting up the main Foursquare app into two. Continue reading → Read the original post by Jason

A seemingly wild rumor of Apple planning to launch new EarPods headphones with integrated heart rate and blood pressure sensors has been making the rounds today after the claim was posted on anonymous information sharing platform Secret (via Reddit). Apple’s new EarPods will have sensors in them, for heart rate […] Read the original post…

As a daily deal, Newegg via Ebay offers the Olympus PEN E-PM2 16.1-Megapixel Mirrorless Digital Camera with the M. Zuiko ED 14-42mm f/3.5 II Zoom Lens in White, model no. V206021WU000 for $199.99 with free shipping. That’s $49 under our mention from two days ago and the lowest total price […] Read the original post…

NEW YORK — Housing reform is dead, and Tuesday’s delay of a Senate Banking Committee vote on President Obama’s favorite piece of legislation on the issue was only the final nail in the coffin. Read the original post by TheStreet.com

Microsoft has announced some significant updates to OneNote clients for iPhone and Mac. In addition to a visual overhaul for iOS 7, the iPhone version now includes character recognition so you can snap pictures of documents and save them to OneNote in the cloud. You can also create and share […] Read the original post…

Macworld and Rich Stevens of Diesel Sweeties present Multitouch Theater, a weekly cartoon about Macs, iOS, and everything in-between. This week: With Comixology’s in-app purchase gone, to the creepy Bat-comic store we must go! To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read the original post by Rich Stevens

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MacRumors is pleased to announce the Fifth Annual MacRumors Blood Drive, throughout the month of May 2014. Our goal is to increase the number of life-saving donations in real-world communities by encouraging everyone in our online community to step forward. While most blood drives are specific to a […] Read the original post by Doctor…

Normally this sort of resource reallocation story leads with Apple taking developers off OS X to finish an update to iOS, but the latest report says that the opposite is happening with development of OS X 10.10: Apple is pulling programmers from development of iOS 8 to finish development of […] Read the original post…

Bon app-etite! Just last week we shared our favorite coffee app; this week: an improved way to order pizza. Apps for the iPhone and iPad are keeping our appetites satisfied. Acompli Still searching for the perfect email client for iPhone? Acompli is the latest entry in a crowded market, combining email and calendar […] Read…

Virgin Atlantic now has iBeacons around London Heathrow airport to deliver location-specific alerts. These iBeacons tie in with Passbook, and enable notifications such as reminders to get your boarding pass out when approaching a security checkpoint, a 0% commission offer when passing currency exchange, or introducing crew members as people […] Read the original post…

Foursquare has announced that they’re going to be spinning off a new app this summer called Swarm. While Foursquare has been used for sharing where you are for years, Swarm aims to facilitate meet-ups with friends more easily by letting you broadcast where you’re going next and what your friends’ […] Read the original post…

You’ve heard of sponsored content, where a site publishes an ad that looks like an article. But there’s a whole class of content that’s not paid for, but in which the author is an industry player with a vested interest in spinning the information. Let’s call it spinsored content. Writing at […] Read the original…