Sam’s Club offering free Wi-Fi and mobile app

Warehouse clubs have always made sense for large families and businesses or other organizations who benefit from buying in bulk. For most other people, it didn’t really make sense to pay an annual fee to buy ten pounds of cereal that would go stale before they could finish it. But over the past year or so, the economic downturn has caused a shift in consumers’ spending habits, and warehouse club memberships have increased. This would normally be good news for ..read more

Pay with your smartphone and forget the credit card

I’m probably really dating myself here, but remember those American Express commercials that had the tagline “Don’t leave home without it.”? These days, people are least likely to leave home without their cell phones. Think about it. Our mobile phones are our connection to so many facets of the world around us. We use them for driving directions, to keep in touch with friends, family, and coworkers via e-mail, to network with strangers on Twitter, to update our Facebook status, ..read more

Subaru Outback is a Wi-Fi hotspot

Forget those built-in DVD players so many SUVs and minivans have now. As more auto makers incorporate Internet access into their vehicles, going on a road trip will soon mean that you don’t have to lug a bunch of DVDs around in addition to everything else you have to fit into your car. Instead, you can stream movies from Netflix, or watch videos on YouTube. Not only that, you’ll be able to keep your friends posted on your trip via ..read more

Microsoft, Verizon launch two Kin devices

While handset makers and wireless carriers other than AT&T seem at times to have made it their mission to destroy the iPhone, Microsoft has taken a different tack. Well, it’s actually no tack at all, as far as the iPhone goes. Sure, they know it’s out there. Who doesn’t? But at this late point in the game, could Microsoft, a handset newbie, come out with something that would topple the iPhone from its current bestselling position? Not likely. Google just ..read more

Verizon app store launches today

Try as Verizon might, there’s no catching up to Apple’s App Store. With more than 100,000 apps, and over two billion downloads, Apple enjoys a huge head start in the development and sales of smartphone applications. But that doesn’t mean the other companies won’t try with their own app stores. Apps are big business these days. As more and more people turn to their smartphones for everything from interacting on social media sites like Twitter, to mobile banking, applications are ..read more

AT&T says it’s ready for SXSW

AT&T has gotten a lot of grief about network issues over the last couple of years. In fact, the problems can be traced back to when the carrier began offering the iPhone under its exclusive contract with Apple. iPhone users account for about three percent of AT&T customers, but that three percent accounts for about 40 percent of network usage. Cities like New York and San Francisco have seen the most issues with dropped calls, and slow download and upload ..read more

LG Korea Unveils the LG Cookie Plus

Following the success of its touchscreen phone, LG Cookie, the company is proud to announce its follow-up aptly called LG Cookie Plus. And like its predecessor, the LG Cookie Plus aka LG GS500 is also a slick-looking 3G handset with SNS capabilities, full touchscreen feature and other useful features as well.

With the release of the Cookie Plus, LG hopes to establish a new line phones that will push what they’ve started with the Cookie mobile phone series. Hence, the LG ..read more

If you can’t say anything nice, Google’s Nexus One will censor you

Ah, Google. Always looking out for us. Have you ever noticed that when you perform an image search on Google, there’s a “SafeSearch” option? It can be strict, moderate, or off altogether, and this will affect the types of images that appear in your search results. Depending on what you’re searching for, this actually isn’t a bad idea. It can keep undesirable images from appearing when you’re searching for medical or anatomical information, for example, which is great when you’re ..read more

Motorola Devour Arrives on Verizon

Verizon Wireless just snagged Motorola’s latest smartphone called the Motorola DEVOUR. This is the first Verizon Wireless phone that features Motoblur, Motorola’s own Android-powered content delivery service. With Motoblur, users will have access to various personalization and customization features of the said mobile phone.

The Motorola Devour features a robust contacts syncing feature for both work and personal e-mail servies including G-mail. It will allow users to posts, send instant messages, upload photos and other contents to social networking sites such ..read more

Sony Ericsson Unleashed the Vivaz, Full Touch Screen Smartphone

Sony Ericssson has just unveiled a new smartphone with full touch screen features – the Sony Ericsson Vivaz. This phone is officially the second unit to be released under Sony Ericsson’s new family of communication entertainment phones, with the Xperia series as the first model. To be released anytime this first quarter, the Sony Ericsson Vivaz features high quality HD video playback.

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is a full featured smartphone with great features such as a high resolution camera that ..read more