Mobile & Wireless

The quantified self movement has been mostly focused on athletes and people trying to be active and measure their progress, but in the last year or so it has branched into the medical realm. Cue is one such example of this phenomenon. The device, which debuted on Tuesday, tracks inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and Continue Reading →

As far as portable Bluetooth speakers go, Jawbone’s Mini Jambox falls short of being our favorite; it’s more expensive than the competition, without being significantly better. Given that, then, you might want to take this post with a grain of salt: The company just announced a new feature called Multiplay that allows you to turn Continue Reading →

Airbnb has been working hard over the last few years to make it faster and easier for guests to find a place to stay. After all, the easier the process, the more likely it is that a guest will actually book a room through the platform. On Tuesday, it took that initiative to its inevitable Continue Reading →

Google has updated its iOS search app to version 4.0, which introduces a variety of new and useful changes. The app now recognizes new voice search cues and conversational input similar to the way Siri works. For example, Google says you can ask the app “What’s the weather like?” and follow up with “How about Continue Reading →

AT&T Inc., joining the ranks of U.S. TV, Internet and wireless providers racing to consolidate, is in advanced talks to acquire DirecTV for about $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Under the plan being discussed, management of DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, will continue to run the company as a unit Continue Reading →

Revolutionizing the cash register receipt sounds like the worst kind of startup cliché, but indulge me for a moment. On Tuesday, Square unveiled a new feature for its digital receipts that, in and of itself, doesn’t radically change how we interact with the places where we shop. But it points us in this direction. And Continue Reading →

iOS 8 is likely to supercharge the functionality of Apple’s iPad with a new split-screen multitasking feature, according to sources with knowledge of the enhancement in development. These people say that the feature will allow iPad users to run and interact with two iPad applications at once. Up until now, each iPad application either developed Continue Reading →

People who use mobile phones intensively appear to have a higher risk of developing certain types of brain cancer, French scientists have said, reviving questions about phone safety. Individuals who used their mobiles for more than 15 hours each month over five years on average had between two and three times greater risk of developing Continue Reading →

We already know Apple is working on improving Siri, but gosh dangit, the folks in Cupertino just aren’t moving as fast as some would like. That’s why a quartet of freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania decided to try making Siri do more on their own… at a hackathon, no less. They wound up taking Continue Reading →

If you’ve hunted for a parking space in NYC before, you know it can be endlessly frustrating. Worry no more: SpotHero is here to take the pain out of parking and make life easier for you. SpotHero saves drivers from having to search the street for metered and street parking by offering the best deals at garages Continue Reading →