Samsung’s Wallet Looks And Works A Lot Like Apple’s Passbook

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Sid|4 Comments

Yesterday, during a developer conference at Mobile World Congress, Samsung announced their new Wallet app. The new app, is strikingly similar in functionality to Apple’s own Passbook, which was announced with iOS 6. Samsung’s Wallet lets you store your event tickets, boarding passes, cards, coupons etc. Even the app icon looks closely similar to the [...]

Google Wallet Updated, Now Usable With All Credit And Debit Cards

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Mitch Bowman|1 Comment

Up until today, Google Wallet was largely useless as an actual wallet replacement, because only one type of credit card actually worked on the service: the Citi Mastercard. Thankfully, those days are over, as an update to Google Wallet has been released that supports all credit and debit cards from Visa, Mastercard, American Express and [...]

iOS Development Studio Acrylic Purchased By Facebook, Hinting At Facebook UI Re-Design?

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Mitch Bowman|Post Comment

Facebook seems ready to continue their acquisition of more and more iOS-related companies, perhaps in an attempt to make the Facebook app for iOS not completely awful. Just a few short months after paying an enormous price for Instagram, Facebook has bought Vancouver-based developers Acrylic. Acrylic is the development studio behind Pulp and Wallet. The [...]