Archive for December, 2010

Headlines: New Android Virus, the Scribe, and Standard Phone Chargers

New Sophisticated Virus Threatens Android Phones, HTC files a trademark for “Scribe,” and Standard phone charger to come out in 2011

Introducing ‘Ask Shira’: Lalawag’s Monthly Q+A with Shira Lazar!

Online Personality Shira Lazar is a Digital Reporter for CBSNews.com and host of The Partners Project on YouTube. Based in LA,…

Technology Helps Disney Crowd Control At Theme Parks

The New York Times has a fascinating article on how Disney is using technology to control crowds at its theme…

Skype For iPhone 3.0 Released, Adds Video Calling Over 3G

Looks like the busy bees at Skype aren’t resting this holiday week as they just pushed out a new free update for their iPhone client, bringing it to version 3.0.

Here’s what you need to get in on the action according to Skype’s Video Calling Guide:

Top 5 Best Places to Spend NYE

Start 2011 out right by experiencing one of the best New Year’s Eve parties Los Angeles has to offer.

Retail Loyalty Programs and Foursquare

Why use Foursquare to check in to places? What if there was a tangible reward for doing so? (And not just if you’re the “mayor” of a place)

Gruber on Android vs iOS

John Gruber may be generalized as one of the biggest Apple “fanboys” out there, but sometimes he has some really well thought out, bias-free pieces. “Emotional Rescue” is a must-read post if you’re interested in the Android/iPhone “battle” going on right now.

USC’s Institute For Creative Technologies Plays World Of Warcraft With Kinect

Normal people would have used the Kinect that Santa brought on Christmas for silly dance and sports games, but not the geniuses over at the ICT. Nay, they’ve spent their time working on a piece of middleware to allow people to play World of Warcraft using body gestures.

Top 5 Apps to Help You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

This is it. 2011 is your year- the year you’re FINALLY going to (fill in the blank). And it won’t be like last year when you were back to your old ways by St. Patrick’s Day. Making New Year’s Resolutions is easy, but keeping them is hard. Here are some of the best mobile phone apps out there to help you keep them!

Lalawag Headlines: The New iPad, Holographic Cellphones

iPad is No. 1 on Mossberg’s Best Of 2010 List Apple’s iPad has been named by the Wall Street Journal’s…

Find Street Parking In Hollywood More Easily With Parker For iPhone

Do you dread having to go to Hollywood because of the abject misery in finding a parking spot?

Yeah, us too.

Fortunately, there’s a new iPhone app called Parker that’s here to help.

Lalawag’s Post-Holiday Headlines: Skype, Google TV, and Kindle

Skype to bring video chat to Apple devices in January 2011, Google TV Steps in, Forces Logitech to Delay Revue Set-Top, Kindle is the Bestselling Product in Amazon.com’s history

Merry Christmas From Lalawag!

From all of us at Lalawag, we want to wish all of our faithful readers a safe and happy Christmas.…

The Naughtiest Christmas E-Card You’ll Ever Make

Are you a poor soul stuck at work this Christmas Eve?

Or maybe you just have a potty-mouth you’d like to share with your loved ones in the holiday spirit. Either way, we’d like to direct your attention to the “Google Blacklist Christmas Card” maker.

This delightful little website lets you create the most festively depraved Christmas card ever using the “2600.”

Tech Community Helps Bust MobileRSS For Blatant Design Theft of Reeder

A big lump of coal goes to MobileRSS for blatantly ripping off the design of popular iOS RSS reader app, Reeder, on the week before Christmas. On Tuesday, Silvio Rizzi, developer of Reeder, tweeted out a page with shot for shot comparisons between the two apps. Even Jeff Bridges’ one-eyed US Marshal from True Grit could see what was going on there.