Don’t look now, but things may be getting real on the pay-with-your-cell-phone front, as Cupertino’s hired a man with years of experience in enabling just that to finally get ‘er done. According to his LinkedIn profile, Benjamin Vigier is Apple’s new Product Manager of Mobile Commerce, immediately following his handiwork on PayPal Mobile, Sprint MyMoneyManager and the iPhone-based Starbucks Card. Before that, he spent two years heading SanDisk’s mobile commerce and near-field communication efforts and over a year doing NFC for Bouygues Telecom, so it’s not much of a stretch to imagine the futuristic concert tickets depicted in Apple’s recent patent applications might become reality before long.
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As you know, colleges and universities love throwing in “free” gadgets to justify bumping up their enrollment fees. To this end, USC Annenberg has announced a new program to provide j-school students with iPads, digital cameras, and audio recorders to help them report the news. Now, don’t get us wrong: we appreciate the importance (and we’re big fans of) “the journalism,” and if an upgrade from those long, skinny notepads to modern consumer electronics helps facilitate a new crop of Woodwards ‘n Bernsteins, then so be it.
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California universities use iPads to report news, diagnose heart conditions; Penn State students are like, ‘what’s an iPad?’
If you’re looking for video proof of the latest and greatest Xbox 360 firmware mod, you won’t find it in the video after the break, but we’re almost willing to take it on Team Xecuter’s word and long-standing reputation that they’ve hacked the new Xbox 360 . Banding together with Team Jungle and commodore4eva — the hacker who brought backups to the original console in 2006 — the group says they’ve successfully patched the DVD drive to play burned discs
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New Xbox 360 hacked to play ‘backup’ discs, public release underway? (video)
When Google Navigation hit the scene, it sounded the death knell for paid GPS on Android, so you can imagine the doom and gloom at Vlingo HQ last week when Google released the similar Voice Actions for free. As it turns out, however, Vlingo’s not going to give up that easily; Vlingo for Android, once a $10 download, is now free as well.
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Vlingo bows to Google Voice Actions, makes Android version free of charge
For $40 (plus $20 per year), MagicJack’s USB VoIP dongle will let you make free unlimited telephone-to-telephone calls, but this week the company’s announced MagicTalk, a piece of software for internet-connected phones and computers that will waive even those upfront costs. The Associated Press tracked down one of our favorite ruthless salesmen , MagicJack CEO Dan Borislow, who described a service much like Google Voice and Skype, number portability and all — except it adds the whole allowing-free-calls-to-regular-ol-telephones bit by charging the companies that carry incoming calls
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MagicJack announces software for completely free internet-to-phone calls, places femtocell on hold
Though it’s really quite a capable handset , Dell’s Streak brought several disappointments to its belated US launch ; namely, a pastry-based OS without any creme filling , and a $549 version that’s still SIM-locked . While we doubt AT&T’s iron grip will release the Streak from the latter servitude, Dell’s Lionel Menchaca suggests that the former problem may get solved all at once, because the company is considering skipping Android 2.1 altogether for stateside Streaks and upgrading them directly to the faster, more capable Android 2.2. We don’t have a timeframe for a potential release, of course, as the device just went on sale, but it’s clear that Dell hears your cries for the functionality Froyo brings
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Dell: Streak likely going straight to Froyo in US
While WiMAX isn’t exactly streaming through the air everywhere at this point, domestically it has a solid head-start on LTE . Despite that, with many major players (like Verizon and AT&T) already choosing the latter of those two, WiMAX has a tough fight ahead of it for 4G supremacy. Maybe its successor will charm the competition, WiMAX 2 — the artist formerly known as 802.16m
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WiMAX 2 standard, and its theoretical 1Gbps downloads, to be finalized soon
Looks like there are at least two things that the Danes can get right: butter cookies, and hyping it up for a delayed Android handset.
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Lumigon T1 gets Froyo and a major facelift, makes glamorous appearance on Facebook
Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide
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If a set of supposedly leaked slides are legitimate (and they sure look convincing to us) then the shape of Intel’s dirt-brown 2011 plans has finally been revealed. As you can see immediately above, Chipzilla’s 25nm flash process is just about ready to double the size of the company’s award-winning consumer SSDs , bring up to 400GB of “enterprise-grade” multi-level cell memory to the enterprise space, and create a series of netbook-sized mini-SATA drives with the remains of the 34nm silicon. On the processor front things are a little more iffy, but it seems safe to say that the naming scheme has changed, as the silicon wafers you’ll slot into a Q67 Express motherboard will have an extra digit (and often a letter) affixed to the end.
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Leaked Intel roadmap details Sandy Bridge CPUs, expands SSD lineup?
