We hope you haven’t gotten tired of companies who are trying to capitalize on mobile payments because we expect this topic to remain hot for a while. The latest contender is a company called card.io. Unlike other companies that are looking to take advantage of mobile payments in the retail space, card.io is focused on payments that are made through applications on smartphones.

Since the launch of Microsoft’s Kinect we’ve seen a variety of hacks for the platform. All of these hacks were done by those who dedicated their time to learning how to manipulate the device, or who had some help from a small community. Microsoft didn’t try ton intervene while people kept thinking up ways to more »

As the iPhone App Store continues to grow, Palm Pre owners are stuck with a rather slim selection of apps so far. The recently released SDK will help alleviate that problem, though there are some major differences between the Pre and iPhone SDK. The biggest difference is that the webOS SDK (officially known as the more »

In a move today that is sure to please all developers, Palm announced the release of the Mojo SDK, related documents, and support forums. As long as you have a valid email address, you can begin downloading the SDK here. With the Mojo SDK you can build apps for Palm’s webOS. So far, the Palm more »

It was not all that long ago when we were celebrating the App Catalog reaching 700,000 downloads and now it has reached that magical one million mark. Of course, as our own JG Mason asked the other day, “Just 7 apps per Palm Pre downloaded is impressive?”

Despite all of the recent hype surrounding the recently released iPhone 3G S, the Palm Pre has also had its share of news. In addition to the recent news about the App Market hitting almost 700,000 downloads already, we have recently seen an update to webOS, an update to Tweed as well as learned the slightly disappointing news about the webOS SDK release.

webOS updated to version 1.0.3

First up in this little Palm Pre bits post is the recent update to webOS, which was updated to version 1.0.3. The update which is coming over-the-air measure in at 13MB and offers a few nice perks such as improvements with Google contacts, the Clock, as well as the Calendar. Below is a full change list;

On June 6, the Palm Pre was released to the public with a small app store. In fact, the app store was so small it only contained 18 apps at the time. As of today, it contains 30 apps, which is still not a fantastic number, especially when compared to Apple’s vast App Store. Part more »

By now you’ve likely heard that Palm has announced the phone that may just bring their company back to life, the Palm Pre. The company finally released their next-gen operating system as well, named webOS. Palm’s developer site has just revealed the site’s app store will be called App Catalog. The idea of having an mobile marketplace took off when Apple announced their App Store for the iPhone / iPod touch, and was followed by RIM’s Blackberry and Google’s Android this past year.

Getting in the Halloween spirit, how about carving a pumpkin, virtually, of course. The carving demonstration is just another cool example of what the Microsoft Surface is capable of doing.

The application is courtesy of Vectorform, who was also responsible for the MSNBC election application, and while this may not be quite as important, it certainly is a lot more fun. The application is called Vect-O’ Lantern, and it does exactly what you would think — it carves your virtual pumpkin.

Continue reading to check out the video and to find out what’s really cool about this app…

Although we have previously learned that the Samsung Instinct will launch with Sprint on June 20, there has not been any announcement regarding the price, however at a recent live Webinar we were told that it will be “comparable with others in its class.”

As far as the plan, the Instinct will require the Sprint Everything pricing plan which starts at $69.99 for 450 minutes and goes up to $99.99 for unlimited minutes. All of the Everything plans include unlimited messaging and data. The reasoning behind this rule is, according to Dan Hesse, the CEO of Sprint they want you to be able to “use your phone for all the great things it can do without worrying about the meter running.” Makes perfect sense to us.