There’s been a lot of talk recently about mobile payment, from casual money transfers over PayPal mobile apps to using a mobile phone to physically kick-start a payment, as we observed during our field test with the Bling Nation tag. These examples both fall under the category of mobile payments, but their technology differs as …
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It’s not every day a company gives you $20 worth of free cash to spend as you choose and let you run wild. And it’s not every day you pay for your lunch with a wave of your cell phone. This is exactly what Bling Nation is doing to promote its new mobile payment product, which ties into your PayPal …
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Verizon Wireless is offering a new phone starting today. The Samsung Gusto is an entry-level metallic gray flip phone that features noise suppression technology, Bluetooth, and messaging tools. There’s a 2-inch internal display and a VGA camera with a night mode. Text, picture, and voice messaging are joined by instant messaging, chat, e-mail, and Internet access. In addition, there are …
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Boost Mobile is getting something it’s never had before. On Wednesday, Samsung and Boost Mobile announced the upcoming Samsung Seek, which will be Boost Mobile’s first combination touch-screen and slide-out QWERTY keypad phone. This appears to be identical to the Samsung Seek for Sprint, with a 2.6-inch QVGA touch screen (240×320 pixel resolution), a 1.3 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth, and …
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In your weekly dose of Dialed In, the crew kicks around the the latest iPhone Verizon rumor, which strikes us as a lot of kids crying wolf. We also preview the upcoming Droid 2, which Kent was prescient enough to mention while surveying Verizon’s leaked roadmap. Bonnie once again shines some light on the BlackBerry Torch in her hands-on review …
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A new version of PayPal for Android smartphones is bringing its spin on mobile money transfers to Android. PayPal 2.0 for Android adds Bump technology, which debits money from one user’s account and credits another when two phones are tapped together. Of course, both smartphones need a Bump-enabled PayPal app to work. PayPal with Bump is currently available on the …
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One of the “smartest” features of an iPhone and Android phone is the capability to pull up as search suggestions previously visited URLs when you begin typing your destination into the browser. On Tuesday, Google offered its own take for the Android- and iPhone-optimized version of Google.com in the form of a new History link. If you’re signed in to …
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Facebook for Android updated to version 1.3.0 on Tuesday, and while we wouldn’t say that it’s as elegant and accessible as Facebook for iPhone, the Android version is absolutely improving. A done-up interface greets you on boot-up, with seven icons for your news feed, profile, friends, photos, message in-box, events (like birthdays), and pending friend requests. The latter two are …
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BlackBerry maker RIM officially announced BlackBerry 6 on Tuesday, alongside the company’s unveiling of the BlackBerry Torch smartphone. In fact, BlackBerry 6, RIM’s newest operating system, will debut on the BlackBerry Torch. It will be available exclusively from AT&T starting August 12. In addition, BlackBerry 6 will also have backward compatibility for select BlackBerry smartphones, quite probably the BlackBerry Bold …
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Updates to the Firefox Home app for iPhone and to the Firefox Sync add-on for Firefox (Windows|Mac) fix the top three problems users reported for each program, says Mozilla. The new version of Firefox Home (1.0.1), a companion app for the Firefox browser on iPhone, now supports usernames with upper-case letters for logging in to the URL viewer. It also …
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