Flipboard Gets Retina-Ready, But Will Users Spend More Time In-App?

Good news, new iPad users: everyone’s favorite iPad news magazine Flipboard (OK, my favorite, but I hear the Flipboard / Zite battles get fierce) is now Retina-ready. I know, we all thought the enhanced app would be approved by tonight , but, as it turns out, the update was shipped a bit earlier. Consider this your PSA. However, in the brief note Flipboard sent me about the update, something struck me as interesting: company co-founder Evan Doll casually speculated that the Retina Display would lead to longer Flipboard ...
Google Wallet’s Founding Engineer, Product Lead Already at Work on Next Startup, Tappmo

More people leaving Google Wallet means more founders for mobile payments startups! Jonathan Wall , a founding engineer on Google Wallet, and Marc Freed-Finnegan , its product lead, are already heads down on their next venture Tappmo after having their last day at Google on March 5. They’re not saying too much about what it is aside from saying it’s about revolutionizing offline payments. (No surprise there.) “We think the next few years will bring groundbreaking developments in mobile commerce and we are excited to dive in ...
Intel Capital Invests $21 Million In Swedish Eye-Tracking Tech Company Tobii

Intel is betting big on the future of human interfaces with a $21 million (143 million kronor) investment in Tobii, a Swedish company that has been working for years on eye-tracking laptops and other devices. A 10% stake, it implies a valuation of around $200 million for the 12-year-old company. In 2007 Tobii raised $14M, then in 2009 another $26.8M, and the $21M from Intel Capital continues that trend of steady R&D funding. The news, announced by co-founder and VP John Elvesjö and reported by Computer Sweden ...
InvoiceASAP Rolls Out Mobile Invoicing With Support For QuickBooks Sync, Card.io

Cloud-based invoicing platform (and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist ) InvoiceASAP is out with some very welcome news for business owners and their accountants today: integration with QuickBooks. The new functionality works with both QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online, but here’s the killer feature – the proprietary solution supports syncing with QuickBooks as far back as 2004. Even QuickBooks’ maker Intuit itself, only supports back to 2009. “No one has this,” says InvoiceASAP CEO Paul Hoeper of the new feature, “no one.” Also new, the company’s updated mobile solution now includes ...
RIM gets funky, patents fuel cell manufacture for mobile devices

If the engineers in Waterloo have their way, your future mobile handset may be able to recharge itself on-the-go with the help of fuel cells. A new patent from RIM describes a method of manufacture that sandwiches a fuel cell assembly between the keyboard and printed circuit board, wherein the fuel cell ventilates through the keyboard (and likely, channels in the keys themselves). The claims describe the ...
AT&T Gets Dirty, Threatens Plaintiff With Termination Of Service Unless He Shuts Up [Update: ATT Responds]
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Let me catch you up: Matt Spaccarelli, an everyday guy from California, recently took AT&T to small claims court regarding its questionable throttling practices . The judge ruled in his favor on February 24 and ordered AT&T to pay Spaccarelli $850 on the basis that the throttled speed does not live up to AT&T’s much-advertised promise of the nation’s “fastest network.” Anyway, the social consumer activist site PublikDemand recently rallied support around the story and posted a series of tips on how any consumer could do the ...