Uber announced "surge drop," a new feature meant to help its users find cheaper rides, on Monday The feature, which notifies users when lower rates are available, will be rolling out to iOS users this week in an update. See also: 6 Apps That Make Mornings More Manageable With surge drop, Uber users can enable [...]
Dish Network just signed a deal with Disney that gives the satellite-TV company the rights to re-transmit Disney content — which includes channels under the ABC, ESPN and Disney brands — over the Internet. As part of the agreement, Dish said its controversial AutoHop feature for skipping commercials will be disabled for much of that [...]
Today’s post explores what has sometimes been called the future of mobile engagement, alternate reality (AR). While still in it’s infancy due to the complexity of implementing and the need for yet another app on the consumer’s part, some commercial efforts are out there. Below we experience a very rough implementation and learn how not [...]
This morning I was up early and making breakfast for the boys before shuttling them off to school (daycare, really, but we call it school). They were eating and for the moment they were pretty quiet. In that moment of rare and relative silence I thought it might be nice to turn on Morning Edition [...]
I get a lot of email. We all do. And as if the sheer volume wasn’t enough to make you scream along came smartphones. So now not only is there a lot of email but you can access it from (just about) anywhere and are often expected to. You can’t get away from it. But [...]