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Square iPhone Credit Card Swiping Brought by Twitter Founder

by Jay Garrett on December 3, 2009

Square iPhoneSquare has launched an iPhone and iPod dongle and brings cashless payment to both of the touchscreened Apple hand-helds.

The small card reader plugs into a standard 3.5mm headphone socket and Square hopes to enable smaller retailers to take card payments.

Simply pay for your shopping by swiping your card through a small card reader plugged into your iPhone or iPod touch. The payment details entered do not stay on the phone, instead they are transferred to a secure server in a similar fashion to Paypal.

Square CEO Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, says that the card reader could also be an ideal way to transfer large amounts of cash. Mr Dorsey put forward that Craigslist transactions involving large sums of money could be carried out using the reader.

Square are working on reducing processing time; right now it takes a few days, but they’re hoping to have the whole transaction done in minutes.

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Sony Network Gets New Boss To Sort PSP Phone

by Jay Garrett on February 27, 2009

psp_phone_modelKaz Hirai just been promoted to head the new Sony Networked Products and Services division in a Sony reshuffle.

This brings him over from PlayStation to be in charge of everything from PlayStation to the Walkman brand – including Vaio devices and those mysterious “new mobile products”.

His brief is to oversee the “expansion of the PlayStation Network service platform” which kinda gives me the vibe that Sony wants the PSN to go cross platform with devices.

But the real juice is that Sony specifically states that Hirai will also be in charge of “new mobile products”.

Oh yeah – this must be Sony sorting the PSP phone?

Could be the PSP2 but, c’mon - the PSP phone!

Sony only recently blocked Sony Ericsson from developing one  so this must mean that they want to do it in-house.

So, it looks like a range of Sony gadgety joy will be hooking up to the PlayStation Network – downloading movies and music rather than games.

So – do you want a PSP Phone, PSP2 or are you just happy to see the PSN go across other Sony wares?

Let me know good people :)

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TiLR Me – Your Boss Can Be There When They’re Not…..

September 28, 2008 Click to read more →

Teleconferencing.
It’s such a very impersonal way of conducting meetings isn’t it?
All the people back in the conference room get is a screen with a window showing another window that contains your beautiful visage.
Just like being there – it isn’t!
RoboDynamics, on the other hand, wants to popularise what they call “telepresence,” and it necessitates inhabiting [...]

More To Come From Apple

July 22, 2008 Click to read more →

After announcing record profits Mr J has said that there’s more to come!
Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, has promised more new products before the end of the year at the company’s financial results conference call on Monday.
“We’re busy finishing several more wonderful new products to launch in the coming months”
Has anyone got any idea what could [...]