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Tweet Chances are you’ve contemplated late-night pizza or Thai food delivery, you’ve run into GrubHub or Seamless (or both, depending on your city). Chicago-based GrubHub is the largest of the e-commerce engines that power independent restaurants’ delivery and takeout orders, and New York’s Seamless is among GrubHub’s biggest challengers. Now the two have decided to merge and build the mother of all delivery and takeout portals. The companies said combined…

Tweet The eagle-eyed crowd at Apple Insider spotted a new setting in the latest iOS 6 beta called “Wi-Fi Plus Cellular”. When enabled, the feature should allow iOS 6 devices to keep synchronizing data when initially on a Wi-Fi network that either slows down or loses signal. Interestingly, FaceTime shows as one of the apps that can be synchronized on Wi-Fi or cellular. This feature isn’t as dramatic as the…

Tweet I’m halfway to work and I just realized I forgot to set the TV to record my favorite show, bugger. In the very near future these sorts of first world problems will be history if you own an Apple TV. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Soon our smartphones will automatically connect to carriers’ Wi-Fi hotspots thanks to the Wi-Fi Alliance’s new Passpoint certification. Although the Wi-Fi Alliance won’t accept its first devices for certification until late June, there may not be much of a lag time before it hits consumer phones — and other devices. Wi-Fi Alliance marketing director Kelly Davis-Felner said the Alliance isn’t expecting vendors to submit just new smartphones, tablets and…

Tweet Seamless, a favorite resource for connecting restaurants and delivery-dependent diners, built its business helping companies order meals for its workers. But the company is now trying to become a much more consumer-focused business, and it’s now looking to the mounds of data it gathers to try to accelerate the transformation. I recently sat down with Jonathan Zabusky, the CEO of New York-based Seamless, to talk about the company’s first iPad app,…