Bargain hunting just got a little easier for Walmart customers who are also Apple customers. The world's largest retailer has launched a new app for the iPad and updated its app for the iPhone to keep in step with its shoppers' growing use of the popular Apple products.
You may already be familiar with many of the independent retailers in your home town, but how do you find mom-and-pop shops when you're traveling? The 3/50 Project's new iPhone app might help. It links users to its directory of small businesses, so visitors can support the local economy.
"A home doesn't need to be big, just smart." That's the theme of the 2012 IKEA catalog, which drops in August. The Swedish retailer's new home book is a nod to shoppers who are still in savings mode, and also addresses the digital/social revolution with a new iPad app that brings the catalog to life.
The FDA has approved the first diagnostic radiology application for mobile devices. Called Mobile MIM, it's created by Cleveland-based MIM Software, and it's part of a wave of mobile apps aimed at making life easier for doctors and nurses.
Forecasting which technologies will succeed is always hazardous, but it proved especially difficult in 2010, a year full of surprises -- and also several disappointments. Facebook blew away even the most optimistic expectations for the year. Google Buzz? Not so much.
Internet-telephone service Skype may unveil a video-chat service for iPhone and iPad at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. If it's true, the service would compete with Apple's FaceTime service. The rumor stems from documents that were posted on Skype's own website -- and then quickly removed.
In these precious few holiday shopping days left, e-readers make for an easy gift for a wide range of family and friends. So, DailyFinance has assembled a guide to the major e-readers and what each one is best suited for as well as what issues you should consider before buying.
Apple has just annointed Flipboard, an innovative news aggregation app, as its Application of the Year. It's just one of several such apps that sort of mimic how cable companies operate as bundlers of content. And therein lies the promise of a mass, ad-supported business model.
Among today's top online stories for investors: Why was Whole Foods downgraded? Did billionaire trader Paul Tudor Jones just lose 10%? Which company is getting electricity from volcanoes?
Netflix's deal with Epix to add movies from Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM to its Watch Instantly service drew bearish reactions from analysts and investors. But the needed deal will help Netflix gain a winning position in the long run.
People wants to use magazine photos on its iPad app for free, claiming the app is merely a product extension, not new content that must be additionally paid for. The photo agencies disagree, and they're threatening to pull their photos.
Wired has just declared the demise of the wild, open web, eclipsed by discrete apps and walled gardens -- all under the control of powerful corporations like Apple. Here's how this dire vision dovetails with the Google-Verizon net neutrality deal.
Book publisher Penguin has had a very good year so far in 2010, according to its breakout numbers from parent company Pearson's most recent sales report. Sales at Penguin for the period ending June 30 rose 9%, while operating profit more than doubled compared to a year ago.
The latest frenzy about online copyright issues has arisen over Flipboard, a remarkable iPad app that takes feeds from Facebook and Twitter and pulls the content from their links into an easy-to-read and eye-poppingly attractive magazine format. It could revolutionize the online news business, and not a moment to soon.
