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Mobile Phone Picture Check Cashing Coming to Paypal
This gimmick has been out for a short period of time now from Chase bank QuickDeposit. The app enables people to take two photographs of a check written out to them—front and back—then submit and the bank deposits the check as if it had come through a teller or ATM. The entire process shown in ...
Cisco Headed in the Right Direction with Affordable Consumer Level Telepresence?
The networking-giant Cisco has made a strange move recently in their announcement that they will be offering technologically elegant telepresence devices to the home consumer. This seems a little odd to me because don’t we essentially already have that for anyone who happens to own a computer with a built in webcam or a cell ...
Nintendo’s Earnings Face Downward Spiral, 3DS Game Handheld is No Savior
For the past three years, Nintendo has been an unstoppable juggernaut of financial resolve in the face of falling revenues across their sector—but now it looks like their multi-year streak has come to an end. Even as of last year, the videogame giant saw their profits slipping, and this year they’ve slashed their fiscal year ...
Apple vs Nokia Patent Battle Goes International
Apple has moved to begin a lawsuit against Nokia in Britain in what seems to be the next stage in a patent battle between the two companies. The two technology firms have been locking horns since October 2009 when Nokia sued Apple in the United States over patent infringement. From an update article on the ...
New iOS for Apple TV Firmware Released, Promptly Decrypted
In living proof that as long as there’s a thriving geek fan culture for a device, it will never be long for the new version to be jailbroken: behold iOS 4.1. Most people are perfectly willing to let their devices do the talking for them, accept what’s given, and just run sanctioned software. But there ...
Twitter Swoops Past MySpace, Kills @Earlybird Deals
News of Twitter surpassing MySpace in traffic today has brought another milestone for the microblogging site, landing them at 96 million unique visitors last month. This makes them the third most trafficked social networking site on the Internet, next to Facebook (598 million uniques) and Windows Live Profile (140 million uniques). As a social networking ...
US Seeking to Make Tapping Internet Communications Easier
With the advent of open communications and the ease that a person can intercept messages passed from computer to computer came a fear for privacy. The result: most communication devices and protocols nowadays include a layer of encryption. The fact that encryption enables simple, mostly-private communication is frustrating the US government’s policing agencies in that ...
AOL to Acquire TechCrunch: Padding Content for Media Network
Today, AOL announced that they’ve agreed to acquire TechCrunch. The move on AOL’s part appears to be spurred by a need to increase their holdings in the content network sector. They’re hoping to jump on board the current information surge of content distribution hitting the open web. As web content finds itself married to social+search, ...
Unsurprisingly, People Do Not Want the Internet Regulated
A new survey, results published over at Broadband for America, shows a continuing opposition to Internet regulation. People just don’t want the government screwing with something that most of the world perceives as already working quite well without intervention, A new national survey by Hart Research Associates finds substantial opposition to government Internet regulation, with ...
Tucows Blogrolling Shutting Down
Blogrolls, sometimes thought of as the overused bane of sidebars everywhere. The advent of which bulked up blog linkage everywhere, got set upon by staggering amounts of spam, and still today is an excellent way to find related content to the blog you’re currently reading. Tucows bought Blogrolling back in 2004 and provided an outsourced ...