True story: Once, while aimlessly wandering the aisles of a supermarket and wishing I was somewhere else, I caught myself looking up and to the right.
My eyes were instinctively doing what they do when I need to search my computer: looking for the OS X Spotlight icon in the top-right corner.
I needed to find something in the real …
The U.K.’s first cell phone contactless payment system went live today.
The launch is the result of a co-operative effort by a lot of different companies.
The network operator is Orange, the banking is coming from Barclaycard‘s QuickTap, and the hardware is a cheap-and-cheerful Samsung Tocco Lite.
QuickTap purchases are limited …
It seems that Visa, MasterCard and American Express are safe… FOR NOW!
Back in November, a fresh-faced youngster (yours truly) brought you news of a joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon known as “Isis.”
The idea was that these three mobile companies would offer pay-by-phone features using near-field communication …
Starting today, Facebook Deals will begin kicking off in five cities, according to the New York Times. The hotly anticipated Facebook Deals taps into the social online coupon market along with heavyweights Groupon and LivingSocial in offering discounts for shared activities.
The feature will initially only be offered in five cities: …
A Swedish cell phone company just unveiled what might be the future of online shopping – a strange combo of video chat and interactive graphics that looks very much like something out of Minority Report.
The video above explains how the 3 Live Shop works and how it was made. Three bespoke operator stations were built by a team working
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Want to start a tech company? Make sure the word “social” is involved somehow. Social shopping site LivingSocial—second only to social shopping site Groupon—has just raised another $400 million, and is said to be worth over $3 billion now, according to the New York Times.
That’s still quite a bit short of Groupon, which “is said …
Something caught your eye in-store? It already might be second nature to whip out your phone, using it as a guide about whether you should really splurge on that brand new Inception Blu-Ray.
A report conduced by Arc Worldwide, a marketing services firm, found that half of shoppers consult their phones while shopping. The report …
Let’s say you own an iPad!
To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. And if you don’t own an iPad but you’re thinking about getting one, you may wonder what the differences are between both versions other than the sizable price gap.
Here are some of the answers:
| iPad | iPad 2 | |
| Base Price | $349 |
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Buying shoes over the web is rather like running your first marathon: painful.
The problem with buying shoes (or any kind of clothing) online is that you can’t be certain that they will fit.
The result is a lot of trial-and-error, and millions of dollars spent every year shipping returned goods (and their replacements) between …
Whatever its size, the cross-section of Amazon diehards and Windows Phone 7 owners can now officially be placated with Amazon’s Windows Phone 7 app.
The app takes advantage of Windows Phone 7’s swipe-friendly interface to provide easy access to a specific product’s details, customer reviews and related items without having to load up …
Technology has undeniably changed the way we communicate, read, play and even how we live, but for the most part, these shifts have focused primarily in the online world. Not anymore.
The latest digital innovations seamlessly bridge the gap between the online and offline worlds, creating user experiences that are interactive, socially …
According to eBay, online shopping on your computer is so 2009.
The company announced this morning that its gross merchandise volume in global mobile sales has tripled from $600 million in 2009 to $2 billion in 2010. eBay also added that its mobile apps have been downloaded over 30 million times in eight different languages and over …
