Plague is weird, it’s a bit scary, but it’s also an utterly fascinating networking concept. It uses the virus not just as a metaphor but as the underlying model for spreading… Read more »
Mechanic Advisor is launching its own connected car device that plugs into your vehicle’s on-board diagnostic port and helps you interpret that scary check engine light when it starts blinking on… Read more »
As the NH7 Weekender festival kicks off on Saturday in Delhi, India, not just attendees, but the bands and artists taking the stage are coming armed with the FireChat app. Read more »
A Silicon Valley startup called Keyssa has been shopping a new kind of wireless technology that it claims can transfer an HD movie between devices in mere seconds. Read more »
Apple forced the Wi-Fi industry to switch to Bluetooth when it comes to indoor location services. But the change is a welcome one, according to Aruba. Read more »
LoopPay has an alternate mobile payments system for the new iPhones that relies on a magnetic-field generating smartphone case instead of NFC. Why use LoopPay over Apple Pay? It works in… Read more »
A new feature in the Automatic Link called License+ will track a teenager’s driving behavior over 100 hours, giving concerned parents a way to test their kids performance on the road. Read more »
Weather tracking isn’t just Android owners any more. OpenSignal has made its crowdsourced climate-monitoring app available on iOS though only iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users can take measurements. Read more »
Only 15 users have gotten verified status, but almost all of them are Hong Kong journalists who Open Garden hopes will become trusted sources of information during the protests. Read more »
This week introduced some new features to its payments that, while hardly groundbreaking, show a new trend toward making geo-fencing proximity sensing a trigger for credit card transactions. Read more »