The Square application is now available for the iPhone and Android and the company is looking to reinvent how small businesses can accept payment for goods. The system involves a small dongle that plugs into the headphone jack of the iPhone or iPod Touch and this is used to swipe acredit card
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Square readies credit card swiping app
Nissan has decided that Hawaii will be in the first wave of Leaf-enabled states . They say (truthfully, I think) that it’s because of Hawaii’s commitment to green power and all that.
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Hawaii to get Nissan Leaf early (because they’re eco-friendly there (and it’s an island))
“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” seems like a concept a little far-fetched for us techies bent on the hard specs, but TED Talks speaker Simon Sinek makes a good case for it, especially when applied to Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) and the iPhone . I kind of resent putting them on the same pedestal as Martin Luther King and the Wright Brothers, but the logic is largely sound. Basically, Sinek proposes that people buy products because they align themselves with a company’s cause for being, not because their products they produce are necessarily innovative or useful
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iPhone Wins Because of Purpose not Product – TED Talk
Likely because the launch of a new iPhone is on the horizon, AT&T ( NYSE: T ) has been nice enough to bump up upgrade eligibility to June 21st, instead of November 21 as previously seen. Could this mean that AT&T just wants you to buy the latest iPhone, or does it signal that maybe Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL )’s handset will be sold on two carriers this year? With AT&T shortening the upgrade eligibility for users, it will be losing a lot of money in subsidies but it still wants its customers to upgrade so they are locked into some sort of contract
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AT&T offering early upgrades to loyal iPhone customers?
Towards the end of last month we let you know that Garmin-Asus had a new phone just over the horizon called the Garminfone and while we had a bunch of specs for you we didn’t have an official release date or price point. Luckily, T-Mobile has just let u sknow that they will be shipping the device this June for $199 on a 2-year contract. If you don’t remember, this device is running Android but features a heavily modified user interface to make way for the GPS-esque UI we’ve come to know form other Garmin-Asus devices.
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Garminfone coming to T-Mobile this June for $199
You tend to think of archaeologists as academic types, dusting off pottery shards and bones, and a comfy tent in the desert. Generally speaking, you don’t think of them buzzing Mayan ruins and bombarding the jungle with lasers.Yet that’s just what Arlen and Diane Chase are doing in Belize. They’re using LIDAR to scan below the trees, which form an effective screen against satellite imaging, and it’s making mapping the ancient Mayan city of Caracol a snap
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Mapping the Mayans with high-powered lasers
The T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) MyTouch 3G will soon be playing with Android 2.1 OS! Excited? You should be. If you are a MyTouch 3G owners you’ll be very happy to hear that T-Mobile is internally testing the Android 2.1 update for the MyTouch 3G
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T-Mobile MyTouch 3G to receive Android 2.1 with Sense UI!
In what founder Jack Dorsey called “another phase of our rollout,” Square today announced it has started distributing the free card readers that are necessary to accept credit card payments with its mobile app. Square clients are now available …
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Square Begins Sending Free Card Readers for Mobile Payments
T-Mobile today announced that it will sell the Android-based Garminfone from Garmin starting in June. The Garminfone was announced earlier this year, but T-Mobile plans to make it available with a number of branded services and applications on board.
Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) may be trundling forward with Windows Phone 7 , but in the meantime, Windows Mobile is still a nice playground to test apps like Bing. The latest version Microsoft’s search app has been updated for Windows Mobile 6.0 and up, and includes turn-by-turn directions with voice-guided navigation. Compatible handsets include the HTC Fuze, Pure, HD2, Tilt 2, Touch Diamond 2 Touch HD, Touch Pro, Touch Pro 2, Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) Q9c, Samsung Jack, Omnia II, Propel, and the T-Mobile ( NYSE: DT ) Dash 3G.It’s all limited to U.S.
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Bing Maps for Windows Mobile Updated With Voice Navigation
There is certainly a market for business-ordinated netbooks and Dell’s latest Latitude netbook ensures that it can keep up with the corporate world. An Intel Atom still resides at the core, but it’s the new 1.83GHz N470 model backed with the latest Intel Graphics Media Accelerator, the 3150
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The Dell Latitude 2110 netbook packs mobile broadband and touchscreens
Google has just updated the Maps application for Android and bicyclists should be happy because it now includes navigation for these foot-powered vehicles. Biking directions have already been in the desktop version but this is the first time it will hit Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) Maps for mobile.
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Google Maps for Android gets boost, adds biking directions
Good news for users of a cellphone that has Windows Mobile as the operative system, because Microsoft has added a very useful feature which brings turn-by-turn navigation via the Bing maps application. The new feature is already available to download for free and is supported by Windows Mobile cellphones on AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. Head over to m.bing.com for the download and to take advantage of the new feature
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Turn-by-Turn navigation in Bing for WinMo
Apple’s supposedly confidential agreement with AT&T was not a secret after all: They struck a five-year exclusivity contract to carry the iPhone in 2007, an old court document reveals. Still, the validity of the contract remains a question. An ongoing class action suit filed against Apple and AT&T in 2007 alleged that the two parties held a monopoly over the iPhone by locking consumers into a contract for an indefinite amount of time
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Apple’s Contract With AT&T Does Not Quash Verizon Rumor
News has been pretty sparse about the pricing or availability of the PlayStation Move controller, but GameStop thinks they have the down low on when and how much. GameStop’s Canadian site is showing the (expected) release date along with the pricing. This could of course be idle speculation (GameStop usually just puts an arbitrary date in their system when they start accepting pre-orders), but the pricing looks about right
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PlayStation Move Controller will cost $60, expected Sept. 1st
Sprint and Samsung today announced that Sprint’s Samsung Moment Android phone has been certified to work with the Citrix Ready program. The certification will make it easier for corporations to develop tools that take advantage of existing Citrix systems …
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Samsung Moment First Android Certified by Citrix
Microsoft’s two newest phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, take aim at the same demographic as the company’s earlier Sidekick phones: Text-happy tweens. The phones have a promising new interface that puts social media updates front and center, with tweets, Facebook updates and other tiny news blurbs stacked up in an attractive column on the phones’ home screen
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Video: Hands-On With the Kin One and Kin Two
Close readers will have noticed that A) I write quite a bit about soccer+technology but B) never about Team USA. Messi this, Cristiano Ronaldo that. Well that ends today! Nike recently unveiled the kit that Landon Donovan & Co.
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Say hello to the environmentally friendly Nike kits that Team USA will wear at the World Cup
Google today added bicycle directions to its Google Maps for Android. Apparently launched to coincide with National Bike Month this month, the biking directions also adds a bike lane layer to Google Maps, so you can decide to ride …
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Google Maps for Android Can Now Direct Cyclists
A little while ago I brought news of the super-duper technology that adidas’ kits (“jerseys”) will utilize at the World Cup . We all had a good time, yes? Well today there’s news of the boot, the F50 adiZero, that the likes of Leo Messi and David Villa (soon to be teammates at FC Barcelona maybe ~!) and Jozy Altidore will use to score many goals.
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Adidas F50 adiZero: Messi (and others) will wear the lightest soccer boot in human history at the World Cup
The latest X series from Nokia is the Nokia X2 and this is not a smartphone but runs a Series 40 OS. This X2 music phone from Nokia is designed elegantly with it measuring only 13mm(thick). Feature wise the X2 will co me loaded with a 2.2-inch QVGA screen, a 5-megapixel camera with integrated flash and video recording, dedicated music functional buttons, a 3.5mm universal headphone jack, FM radio, dual stereo speakers, Bluetooth v2.1, Facebook integration, and also an expandable microSD card support
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Nokia X2
The Aino cellphone of Sony Ericsoon has recently received a firmware update which includes the following items: – being more stable; – improvement of battery life; – codec support that supports MPEG4 videos – improved bluetooth and WLAN performance; So if you are the proud owner of a Sony Ericsson Aino don’t wait and get the firmware update. Related Posts Sony Ericsson Satio Gets New Firmware Remember those Satio issues we told you about last week?
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Sony Ericsson Aino gets firmware update