Software

For $250 million, Samsung has acquired LoopPay. This addition means that the Korean phone company has entered the mobile payment market. So what did LoopPay do? They’re the guys who invented the technology where you could use your phone case to pay at the credit card swipe. Now, Samsung’s master …

We finally see on the games market the famous Grand Theft Auto 5 from the well known serie, with its surprising and spectacular Angry planes mode. This game has delayed its launch for 2 years, compared to consoles. But the wait seems to be very worth it. The graphics is …

The new Skype universal translator for voice is ready for the audience. In the last 6 months it was perfected in a Beta environment by a small group and now all Skype users can try it. What it is really interesting is the fact that a modified Skype version for …

Verizon buys AOL for a few billions dollars! Verizon announced that they will buy AOL, the well known Internet media company. The price was set at 4,4 billion $, which is a lot of money. Verizon did this purchase because they have a LTE and an Internet video strategy and …

Self driving cars represent the future of transport. The advantages of self driving seem clear: no drunken drivers, no human errors, no human emotions like aggression in the traffic, impatience, texting while driving or hurry. But for the moment, things are yet far from being as perfect as self driving …

Google, stand your ground, Facebook approaches. It’s been going on for the past couple weeks. Smartphone users noticed a new icon “Add Link.” By clicking on it, a list of links were provided in relation to their post (I personally haven’t found it yet. Apparently, a select group of users …

The NASDAQ stock exchange has begun to experiment with something that may change the way of how stocks are traded. They have decided to use the blockchain. For those who are unfamiliar with this, blockchain is the same technology that powers the system Bitcoin operates on. Essentially, it’s a computer …

What are bitcoins? They’re a form of digital currency, to which the US Treasury categorized them as “decentralized.” This means that they can be accepted everywhere (in theory). Now, the state of New York has issued an LLC charter to the virtual currency exchange site itBit, making it fully regulated in …

Jerry Nixon, Microsoft developer guru, made an interesting announcement in Chicago, last week. He was present at a conference for the Ignite company and he declared that Windows 10 will be the last Windows version. He said that they are still working on Windows 10, because it is the last …

2013’s flagship from Samsung has not been forgotten. We’ve known for a long time that the phone would be getting Android Lollipop support, we just didn’t know when this would land exactly and what version we would end up getting. It seems US carrier Sprint has now officially released the …