Description: Paying for your morning coffee and newspaper by swiping your mobile phone instead of fumbling for cash or debit card could be just around the corner. Source: Globeandmail.com Date: Feb 15 , 2011 Apple Inc. is launching a long-awaited subscription service for magazines, newspapers, videos and music bought through its iTunes App Store. The plan calls… Read more »
Posts Tagged: iphone
What’s Driving Apple’s 10 Billion App Success?
Description: Apple’s iPhone App Store launched in July 2008. In just over two and a half years, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users have downloaded 10,000,000,000 applications for their iOS devices. Source: Informationweek.com Date: Jan 24 , 2011 “With more than … seven billion apps [downloaded] in the last year alone — the App Store… Read more »
Google’s Android Likely to Lose as Verizon Gets IPhone
Description: Google Inc. may lose business as Verizon Wireless starts selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone, giving the carrier’s customers a new alternative to smartphones running the Android operating system. Source: CNN.com & Businessweek.com Date: Jan 11 , 2011 Verizon said today it will offer Apple’s iPhone 4 as of Feb. 10, and begin taking orders a week… Read more »
5 Top Trends in Consumer-Based Internet Businesses for 2011
Description: In 1995, when Amazon was founded, e-commerce was like the proverbial talking dog. It wasn’t about how well the dog could talk, it was amazing that the dog could talk at all. The first generation of e-commerce sites were focused on functionality, getting the dog to talk better. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Dec 3, 2010 Every… Read more »
Smartphones and Tablets to Take Over in 2011, Researchers Say
Description: The research firm IDC predicts that in 2011, computing’s third major technology wave will become mainstream, when computers held in one’s hand — smartphones and tablets — really take over and start putting personal computers in the rearview mirror. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Dec 2, 2010 Next year, the research firm says in a report… Read more »
Mobile-phone cash register Square open for business
Description: Square, an application that turns a smartphone into a mobile cash register, is open for business. Source: CNN.com TechDate: Oct 25, 2010 Created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Square uses a free download and plastic card reader to let users accept credit card payments. The app charges users 2.75 percent of the transaction cost plus… Read more »