Time to say goodbye to thick wallets.

Coin is a card-shape device that replaces all your Credit, Debit & Gift Cards. It stores all the information within the device, and you can use the card exactly the same way as your current credit card. A small LED screen will allow you to view the cards stored inside, and set the active card. You may wonder if this card requires battery charging frequently? No. Battery of the first prototype lasts for 1 year.

Using Bluetooth LE, it even reminds you if Coin stays away from you for a distance with push notification on your phone. It will then deactivate itself. The retail price of Coin is US$100, now 50% off in pre-order period.

Coin is the future of cards. Agree?

It’s a great news for hardcore mobile gamers.

Checkmate, Logitech! MOGA announces the first iOS 7 compatible game controller (the company already made some game pads for Android gamers), pricing at US$99, which will be available on Apple Store as accessories tomorrow. This controller will definitely bring gamers to a brand new gaming experience, especially in shooter games.

Moreover, the gamepad also acts as charging case, enabling longer gaming time with those battery-draining 3D games.

Facebook Login provides a fast and secure sign up experience across web, iOS, and Android apps. Today, Microsoft is adding official support for Facebook Login in Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps in partnership with Facebook. Facebook Login for Windows 8 is ready to use in production apps, while Windows Phone 8 support is being launched in beta.

For implementation details, please visit the documentation for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8.

Apple released iOS 7.1 beta (build number 11D5099e) for Developers on Nov 18, 2013.

What’s New in iOS 7.1 beta?

1. UI Improvements, especially in Notification Center
2. Dark keyboard style
3. Upload Burst Photos to Photo Stream (iPhone 5s only)
4. Toggle system font with bold text no longer requires restart
5. new “HDR Auto” mode in Camera
6. Speed improvements

What iOS 7.1 beta fixed?

1. network connection issues
2. iTunes sync issues
3. Multi-peer Connection issues
4. Timer issues
5. Optimized closing animation using pitch-to-close gesture (iPad only)

Along with iOS 7.1 beta, Xcode 5.1 also released Developer Preview (build number 5B45j), which includes iOS 7.1 beta SDK and Mac OS X 10.9 SDK.

Yet another good job from Google.

Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt himself took to the British press to announce that Google has made a big step in ridding its search results of links to underage sexual abuse (with some image detection assistance from Microsoft). Google hired a 200-strong team to work out a solution over the last three months and that their work has already fixed up to 100,000 potential queries. The UK Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed the news as “significant progress.” He’s also praised Google’s previous set of measures, which displayed a warning to people attempting to search for illegal material and caused a 20 percent drop in illicit activity. For now, Google’s newest improvements are limited to English-speaking countries, including the UK and US, although the search company says it’ll roll out its adjusted search globally over the next six months, covering 158 more languages.

Google did the right thing; this search engine must not be a tool for committing crime. However, we do believe that parental control can be done in a more streamlined way: Identify the user’s age, then filter away unwanted contents.

While books and lectures are essential, there’s nothing like real world experience, and that’s what Facebook’s Open Academy offers to budding software developers. The initiative, which debuted as a pilot program at Stanford, has now expanded to 22 universities’ computer science departments across the globe. It not only gives students a chance to work on real open source projects like Ruby On Rails and Mozilla Open Badges, it also pairs them up with mentors for guidance. Of course, we wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook’s using the program to hunt for gifted devs — or if young hopefuls see it as their entry into one of the best companies to work for. If you’d like to get involved, or bring the program to your university, check out the program’s Facebook page for contact information — but hurry, the 2014 winter session kicks off in February.

[Image credit: Facebook Open Academy]

Not only it fits the iOS 7 theme, the wooden bookshelf in iBooks is now updated with white stylish futuristic style bookshelf in its Version 3.2.

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBooks Store, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favorite classics — day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.

Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/ibooks/id364709193

Here is the iPhone 5s & 5c final announced specification:

Worth to mention is, iPhone 5 is now off the shelf.

* Unofficial data
# in selected countries only, available in Apple Store & Online Store

iPhone 5S Announcement Live blog links can be found at :

• CNET
• Engadget
• USTREAM

We all look forward to the event. Stay tuned. 1 more hour to go!

Final Guess on iPhone 5S / 5C Specification

From the specs above, iPhone 5S is not really outstanding. Besides a brand-new iOS 7, we do want iPhone 5S to have more RAM ( at least 2GB ) to support more background apps, NFC and faster CPU. Since there are quite a few Android phones having better performance than iPhone 5, we do hope iPhone 5S can be the No. 1 in the market again. Stay tuned for more information for the announcement 12 hours later.