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App Turns iPhone into a Credit Card Terminal

Source: All About Jazz
April 29, 2010

As if phones didn't already do enough, one of the latest mobile apps transforms iPhones and iPod Touches into portable charge card terminals.

ProcessAway plugs into Authorize.net's payment processing platform, allowing entrepreneurs to accept credit card payments anywhere they can access the internet. After downloading the app and (separately) setting up a merchant account with Authorize.net, clients can use ProcessAway like a traditional charge card terminal: enter the amount, input the card number, expiry date and verification code, and process. ...

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New iPhone Expected at Apple Developer Conference

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

Apple announced the dates Wednesday of its Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company is expected to introduce a new iPhone (even though tech blog Gizmodo may have spoiled the surprise). Taking place June 7 to June 11 at San Franciscos Moscone West convention hall, the five-day conference includes hands-on sessions for software developers to become familiar with iPhone OS 4 and Mac OS X. In previous WWDC events, Apple has announced new products during a keynote presentation that kicks off ...

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Senators Ask Facebook to Fix Privacy to New Features

Source: Michael Ricci
April 28, 2010

Lawmakers are asking Facebook Inc. to roll back a new feature that they say invades the privacy of the popular online social networks more than 400 million users. On Tuesday, four U.S. senators objected to the feature that shares information with other websites without the explicit consent of users. They want Facebook to make the feature that currently personalizes content on three other websites opt in. Social networking sites have become the Wild West of the Internet, said Sen. Charles ...

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Believe in Privacy

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have been outed as not caring one whit about your privacy a jarring admission, considering how much of our personal data Facebook owns, not to mention its plans to become the webs central repository for our preferences and predilections. Also interesting is how this came about: Not in a proper article, but in a tweet by Nick Bilton, lead technology blogger for the The New York Times Bits Blog, based on a conversation he ...

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Biomechanical Mike Stand Gets a Gleaming Grip

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

A biomechanical arm built out of found objects and stainless steel rods served as inspiration for one of the world's weirdest microphone stands. Artist Chris Conte created the gleaming, sci-fi-looking mike holder for Adam Gontier, lead singer of Three Days Grace. Gontier found photos of Conte's original artwork online and inquired about a custom piece of gear based on the arm. “When he asked me over the phone if it can be done, I was like, 'Hell yeah, it can ...

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What if You Had Bought Apple Stock Instead of That iPod?

Source: Michael Ricci
April 28, 2010

Sometimes, especially when we're down on our luck and looking at all the money we've wasted on frivolous gadgets, we might ask what would have happened if we had invested. Web developer Kyle Conroy provides an easy-to-read spreadsheet to illustrate how shortsighted we all were. It's called What If I Had Bought Apple Stock Instead? There's probably no better company to play this game with because, as The Times pointed out last week, “There's no stopping Apple -- or its ...

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The Lost iPhone Close Ethical Call

Source: Michael Ricci
April 28, 2010

An Apple engineer loses a top-secret prototype and a tech blogger ends up purchasing it from the finder. Who deserves our support?

So an Apple engineer walks into a beer garden....

A story that begins like that should have at least a little potential.

Especially when you learn that, in said beer garden, the young software engineer loses a top-secret prototype of a next-generation iPhone. A stranger finds the phone. The stranger sells the phone to a tech blogger for ...

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Custom-Made Headphones: Listen up Before It's Too Late

Source: All About Jazz
April 28, 2010

JH Audio JH5 Pro Their custom fit and complex circuits mean that music never sounded so good. Seriously. Price: $400 There was a time not too long ago when you could walk down the street without seeing white, brightly colored or bedazzled earbuds jammed into everyone's ears. Just as the iPod has revolutionized the way we buy music, the small, disk-shaped earbuds that come bundled with it have changed the way we listen to music. But not in a good ...

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