Category: Gadgets

Wallaby unveiled its third app for wearable devices.

The mobile and online credit card optimization solution is the first to launch a mobile wallet app for the Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch, which provides users with the ability to make financial decisions in real time.

Wallaby helps consumers select the best credit card for every transaction.

The company is known for assisting consumers in choosing the credit card that is the most idea for each of their transactions to help them earn the most rewards and to save the most money. The app gives users the ability to view their credit card utilization, balances and balance limit, as well as obtain suggestions on which card is the most practical for each shopping experience.

In addition to having offerings for Android and iOS, currently, Wallaby has an app for the wearables Google Glass and Pebble. One of its goals is to appeal to early adopters of wearable technology, so that it can improve its current wearable app formula and make it more successful and appealing for other major companies when they enter the wearables market.

In an interview with Mashable, Matthew Goldman, the CEO and founder of Wallaby said that “We’ve chosen to be involved in wearables because we think that we’re providing the kind of apps people want.” He added that “A lot of people focus on fitness and health but financial health is an important factor of everyone’s everyday life.”

Goldman stated that Wallaby’s has already learned more about what users want from the company’s existing wearable applications. Their apps have helped them understand what users want to see on the tiny screens of their devices.

The Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch is believed to be the perfect wearable platform for the Wallaby app.

Goldman said of the Samsung Gear that it is a “compelling device with an excellent interface” and that it is a platform well suited to providing users financial information that will help them avoid fees and save money.

According to the company’s press release, Consumers who use the Wallaby app on their smartwatch will receive unbiased recommendations that are based on the company’s industry leading database and algorithms of “credit card promotions and rewards intelligence.”

Customer distraction from mobile devices has made its way onto public dinner tables.

It doesn’t come as any surprise that technology news reports are determining that smartphone users are increasingly distracted during a growing range of different activities, which include walking down the street, driving, and even at concerts and movies that are supposed to be entertaining on their own.

However, a new study has found that this distraction is now taking away from restaurant service.

Restaurants and their staffs are now finding that their jobs are becoming just that much more challenging as people use their smartphones while they’re at the table, taking longer to progress through their meals. Whether they are taking a call, answering a text, checking emails, or photographing their plates, the use of these devices is extremely common, it is becoming more prevalent, and technology news is now showing that it is slowing down service.

A well established restaurant is now making technology news for having conducted a study on the matter.

The restaurant, located in New York City, received several complaints about having experienced slow service. In response, it decided to investigate the matter and looked into its surveillance videos to observe customer behavior trends. It examined forty five different transactions from 2004 that were located at tables between the diners and the front of house staff. Then another forty five equivalent 2014 transactions were observed.

What they discovered was that it was actually the customers, not the staff, that were to blame for the slow-downs in service, and that it was primarily the diners with cell phones that were behind the issue.

The restaurant, which published its technology news findings but that remained anonymous, initially posted its discoveries on the “Rants & Raves” section of Craigslist for Manhattan. Since then, the study has been removed, but it was available long enough for a broad number of people to have a good look at what its comparison revealed.

The technology news making study showed that diners in 2014 required an average of 13 more minutes to order their meals than they did back in 2004. The observations of the surveillance video showed that today’s diners spent much of their time using their smartphones at the table, then spent another three minutes photographing their food once it arrived. Among those who took photographs, nine had to have their food sent back to the kitchen to have it reheat it because it had gone cold during the time it took to photograph it.