Tag: BOSTON

The city of Boston is developing a new app called Street Bump, which would allow citizens to report potholes to city officials without even lifting a finger. The app, which is currently in development, uses a smartphone's GPS receiver and accelerometer to sense whenever a moving car hits a bump, and is reportedly accurate enough to pick up on cracks and divots in the road. Whenever Street Bump ...

Where do you go if you want to report a flasher in a flash? Under most circumstances, you'd probably call the police. Under more pressing circumstances, though, you might want to take a page from Nay Khun's book, and go straight to Twitter. Khun, you see, was riding Boston's underground transit system on Wednesday afternoon, when he noticed a strange looking man seated near him. The man, as it ...

No longer content to just sit in the background and feed its readers their daily news, the Boston Globe has launched a new mobile scavenger hunt that sends its readers around the city. The 'Boston Globe Trek' uses SCVNGR, a location-based game system that's similar to Foursquare or Gowalla, to challenge users to solve riddles, snap photos of landmarks, and scan unique QR codes. After ...

In the never-ending battle against work productivity, time wasters are our greatest ally. Getting caught playing games instead of that spreadsheet we were supposed to be working on, however, is never fun. Can't You See I'm Busy! has thankfully come to the rescue of sneaky procrastinators everywhere, with a suite of flash games cleverly designed to look like Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. ...

It's getting harder and harder to find an erotic encounter on Craigslist these days, thanks to extra attention from government and subsequent legal crackdowns. The site's ubiquitous offers for "massages" and similar services are now sure to fall off even more, since Fox News is reporting that there is a killer on the loose in the Boston area. Turns out the killer may have used Craigslist to lure ...