It’s only a matter of time before your mobile phone swallows up yet another piece of technology: your credit card.
In this not-too-distant future, rather than pay for gas or dinner with a piece of plastic that you slide through a machine, you will simply tap your phone to pay the bill. For this to become standard in the United States, a number of technological changes need to happen, more…
Mobile payments are fast becoming a reality as wireless carriers in the U.S. lower the fees they collect from merchants in return for the right to charge items to the mobile bill.
While paying by mobile phone has been around for years-with consumers charging ringtones and other mobile content to their bill-it’s been only in the past few months that it has become viable for other expenses.
In fact, over the past couple of weeks, a substantial milestone was reached and went almost completely unnoticed, said David Marcus, the CEO of Zong, a mobile payments provider. more…
Back in February we wrote about Facebook’s secret Project Titan – a web-based email client that we hear is unofficially referred to internally as its “Gmail killer”. Now we’ve heard from sources that this is indeed what’s coming on Monday during Facebook’s special event, alongside personal @facebook.com email addresses for users. more…
Digg Dialogg with Marissa Mayer
eBay is launching a new secondhand buying service to eliminate the need to list unwanted gadgets for auction or through the classifieds. The ecommerce website has partnered with unnamed dealers to introduce a new marketplace called Instant Sale that accepts laptops, phones, tablets, PDAs, digital cameras, MP3 players, camcorders and GPS Systems. more…
Apple’s CEO made a surprise appearance during yesterday’s fiscal 2010 fourth quarter earnings call. Jobs said he couldn’t resist participating, given Apple’s record $20.34 billion revenue. But he leveled most of his comments at competitors, and in quite defensive posture. Now why is that? Apple’s iPhone blew past Wall Street estimates by as many as 3 million units. The iPad outsold Macs and, according to Gartner and IDC analysts, sucked sales away from Windows netbooks and low-cost notebooks. Apple controls the largest and most successful applications store on the planet. The company sits on a cash horde of more than $51 billion. Then there are the quarterly results, which topped consensus estimates by nearly $2 billion. more…
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of war. Better choose your side soon, too. The tablet wars are going to get nasty.
Apple’s army is prepped, already backed by over 3 million zealous iPad owners. But the Google Android horde is quickly banding together and will soon offer countless weapons from several major CE houses and dozens of smaller camps. Google is also quietly forming the stealthy Chrome OS platoon that will likely enter the battle a bit late, but shouldn’t be forgotten, ether. more…
In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business, one that has stubbornly, proudly clung to a sense that focusing too much on the bottom line can lead nowhere good. more…
The Salam Business Club (SALAMBC) has chosen the Bayt.com Network as its provider of full-fledged Recruitment and Classifieds technology and content solutions. The Bayt.com Network provides its member companies with a unique platform that includes state-of-the-art proprietary Recruitment and Classifieds tools, technologies more…
Verizon unveiled a series of new video applications today, including an upcoming iPad app that will allow FiOS subscribers to watch the same linear programming that is available on their TV screens on their tablet devices. The new app is expected to be rolled out early next year and Verizon expects to have all of its content partners on board by the time the app launches. more…
When Android debuted in 2007, I couldn’t figure out how Google had managed to apply an Apache license to the project. Java, like Linux, was governed by the GPL and thus incompatible with the more permissive license Android was sporting. Stefano Mazzocchi subsequently answered the Java related questions: Google wasn’t using Sun’s VM, they’d built their own. more…