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Square Cash Allows You to Send Money via Email

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Square is on a roll with new products. It’s slowly rolling out a service that allows you to send money via email to whoever you want. For now the page is pretty secretive, only allowing users to try out the product by invite-only. There are a few details of how it works on the Help more »

Google Hangouts Plans to Include SMS Messaging and Outgoing Calls ‘Soon’

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With Google rebranding all of it’s communications services into one crossplatform system, Hangouts, announced yesterday, some users were criticizing the new functionality and it’s lack of including some of the most common ways that people communicate: SMS text messaging and voice calls. Although these services will not be rolling out with the new ‘umbrella’ service, more »

Samsung Galaxy S4, Galaxy Note II and HTC One on Sprint Can Now Use Google Wallet

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Google is on top of the world right now. After a solid day one of their annual I/O conference, they’ve shared with the world some big plans of rolling out some incredible new products and services. Likewise, they are improving aspects of some of their most popular applications, such as their communication system and Wallet. more »

Google Introduces Unified Cross-Platform Messaging Service, Hangouts

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Although we had thought it would be called “Babel,” Google did do something about its various chat platforms and their lacking synergies. On Wednesday during the company’s annual I/O developer’s conference, they (among many other things) introduced Google “Hangouts.” Made available for iOS and Android mobile operating systems and on the web via a special more »

Babblr Raising Money to Get Back Up and Running

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Since Babblr recently launched, the chat client for Tumblr received an overwhelming response. Unfortunately, they weren’t expecting such a high volume of users in a short period of time, as they received 34,000 downloads within 3 hours. The traffic it received fried the servers, and temporarily shut it down. They are now accepting donations to more »

Facebook for Android Rolls Out New Pages Layout

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Facebook pushed out an update to its Android app Friday, introducing a new layout for Pages, new stickers for messages, and an update to Facebook Home. The new Pages layout presents the Directions, Check-In and Like buttons in a more accessible location, and messages sent through the app can now use the stickers already available more »

Babblr, Chat Client for Tumblr is in High Demand

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Tumblr has seen tremendous growth over the last year, and is drawing apps and platforms to better optimize the blogging and social experience. Most recently, Babblr an in-dashboard chat client was released for users to chat with friends directly in Tumblr. “As big fans of Tumblr, we love all it has to offer, but like more »

Facebook is Apparently Trying to Buy Crowd-Sourced Traffic App Waze

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It seems that Mr. Zuckerberg is not yet satisfied expanding his reign. Despite his already-massive control over your personal web presence and social interaction, this cyber-world pioneer trudges onward — and his next enterprise lies within your pocket — you’re smartphone (duh!) Buying Instagram was a hell of a first step and then followed the more »

Dashclock Lockscreen Widget for Android Jelly Bean Devices

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One of the advantages to Android Jelly Bean is the lock screen widget capability. I just discovered a cool app that gives you even more options. DashClock Widget gives you a clock and lots more. There are numerous extensions for the widget to give you a wide range of options: from missed calls, text messages, more »

App Review: Snoopify for Android Smartphone

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I just couldn’t see this one slip by without a proper write-up. Also, this review serves me as an excuse to embarrass my co-worker while on the clock (continue reading please) — and well, to be blunt if you will, because Snoop Doggy Dogg is and has always been awesome. Launched on Tuesday, the Snoop more »