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  • CM4 Debuts Q Card Case for iPhone 4 and 4S

    CM4 Debuts Q Card Case for iPhone 4 and 4S

    Posted on November 17, 2011 | No Comments
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  • Payfirma Launches Canada’s First Blackberry Mobile Payment App

    Posted on August 30, 2011 | No Comments
    VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Just one month after Payfirma’s iPhone Virtual Point of Sale App went viral in Canada, the Company is now proud to announce the release of its Blackberry ...

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  • BOKU™ 1-Tap™ Billing for Android is Now Live in 56 Countries

    Posted on June 30, 2011 | No Comments
    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BOKU, Inc., the global leader in online mobile payments, has released the production version of its 1-Tap™ Mobile Billing for Android, now live in 56 countries. The developer SDK...

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  • GoPayment App for iPad Now Available on the App Store

    Posted on April 21, 2011 | No Comments
    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq:INTU) today announced that its iPad-optimized GoPayment app is now available on the App Store. GoPayment is a mobile payment app that lets anyone who sells...

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  • Fundraise.com Looks to Bring Fundraising to the Masses

    Fundraise.com Looks to Bring Fundraising to the Masses

    Posted on March 30, 2011 | No Comments
    BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fundraise.com: What:   ...

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  • What’s cheaper than buying an anti-RFID wallet?

    What’s cheaper than buying an anti-RFID wallet?

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    The following is in the interest of saving you money, which is probably my number one goal here at CG: preventing you from spending money when you don't have to. I've seen ads on Drudge recently pimping RFID-blocking wallets produced by a company called Identity Stronghold. The idea behind the wallet is to block the RFID chip found in your credit card from being surreptitiously scanned. Now, I'm sure it's a fine product and one that works as advertised; I have no "issue" with said wallet. But that's partially why you can get away with not buying one: it's fairly easy to disable the RFID chip in your credit card. What do you need? Nothing more than a hammer!

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  • Apple changes its tune, will now accept cash for the iPad at the Apple Store

    Apple changes its tune, will now accept cash for the iPad at the Apple Store

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Who didn't see this coming? A few days ago we learned of one woman's inability to buy an Apple iPad with cash at an Apple Store. Store policy was such that they would only accept credit cards or debit cards. Apple was totally in the right legally, but it came across sorta funky, particularly given the woman's backstory. Well, after a few days of bad press Apple has changed the policy: you can now walk into any Apple Store and buy an iPad with cash.

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  • Vindicia to provide payment solution for Boxee’s upcoming for-pay premium content

    Vindicia to provide payment solution for Boxee’s upcoming for-pay premium content

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    The future is almost here for Boxee. A few months ago the company announced plans to bring premium for-pay content to the platform. This goal is now one step closer thanks to an agreement with Vindicia who will handle the payment transactions. The goal is to provide a one-click payment scheme using Vincdicia robust CashBox system as a back-end. The powerful solution currently handles currency exchanges, VAT, and GST automatically, and allows users to pay via credit cards, gift cards, or PayPal. Other sites such as Blizzard's online gaming store, DeviantArt, Symantec already use the payment system.

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  • LEGO synth has you build your sound

    LEGO synth has you build your sound

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Japanese artist / designer Yoshi Akai has quite the repertoire of zany instruments and synthesizers. Not only do they have a wicked steampunk aesthetic, but the control formats range from credit cards to wireless signals. Cool stuff all around. This particular one is a 3 channel, 8 step synth that uses different colored LEGO blocks [...]

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  • A closer look at the Square Payment System

    A closer look at the Square Payment System

    Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Phil Torrone got to look at the new Square iPhone Payment system and he and the daring Lady Ada of AdaFruit industries took some photos and video of a prototype of the new device. To recap, the Square device is a little dongle that lets you swipe credit cards. With a quick slash of the [...]

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  • The hard drive platter wallet will show your true colors and hold your credit cards

    The hard drive platter wallet will show your true colors and hold your credit cards

    Posted on December 15, 2009 | No Comments
    The duct tape wallet has officially been replaced as the geekest wallet you can make yourself. Although, I must say, it's probably a whole lot more comfortable to carry around in your back pocket then two hard drive platters.

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  • QVC launches an iPhone app, Grandmas everywhere rejoice

    QVC launches an iPhone app, Grandmas everywhere rejoice

    Posted on December 4, 2009 | No Comments
    When’s the last time you ordered something off of QVC? For me, the last time was when I was 11 years old. Christmas was coming, I hadn’t bought my family any presents yet, and QVC just seemed so damned convenient. Combine that with the fact that I knew exactly where my parents kept their credit [...]

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  • Pirate Bay co-founder now part of digital receipt start-up

    Pirate Bay co-founder now part of digital receipt start-up

    Posted on November 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, is now part of spiffy Web site Kvittar—“does not matter” in Swedish, according to the Google. It's a site that purports to do away with paper receipts. You need to sign up with a credit card.

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  • Something about Web scams, and the sites that still support them

    Something about Web scams, and the sites that still support them

    Posted on November 24, 2009 | No Comments
    Truth be told, I have no idea why I'm about to write this post, other than the fact that it's in my little writing queue. You can't fight City Hall. Here's the deal: the Federal Government of the United States spent a bunch of money investigating various online marketing scams. How they work, what makes people fall for them, etc. Consumers lost some $1.4 billion to such scams.

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  • Wireless Dynamics brings the joys of inventory management to the iPhone with the iCarte RFID reader

    Wireless Dynamics brings the joys of inventory management to the iPhone with the iCarte RFID reader

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Wireless Dynamics brings the joys of inventory management to the iPhone with the iCarte RFID reader
    "You know, that pallet of overpriced skin cream isn't going to stock itself. Maybe if you'd stop playing Bingo Bonanza you'd have done that already. Oh, you say you're scanning their RFIDs to add them to our system? Whatever, you're fired." It's a scenario we see playing itself out at warehouses all around the world thanks to the iCarte from Wireless Dynamics, a device enabling iPods and iPhones to read from and write to RFID tags. It clips on the bottom and sports a mini-USB port so that you can still sync, but can also use the phone's wireless mechanisms to communicate with various systems, updating inventory or tracking purchases. As far as we know it will not prevent your phone from playing games, but we won't tell your boss about that. Nor will we tell him how much these will cost or when he can order them, since we don't know ourselves.

    Update: Wireless Dynamics asked that we clarify that this device is indeed consumer-oriented, able to scan the RFID tags in your credit cards, transport badges, and probably even that chip you had implanted into your dog's head. So, this means you would be able to make MasterCard PayPass and similar RFID transactions without even reaching for your wallet -- which sounds as convenient as it does disconcerting. Being able to verify that your dog hasn't been replaced by an evil clone while you were at work? Priceless.

    Wireless Dynamics brings the joys of inventory management to the iPhone with the iCarte RFID reader originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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