The invention of plastic cards relieved many of us with the worry of carrying cash on us, and brought us closer to the notion of a cashless society. Though the news of RFID chips coming to phones to ensure identity while making payment is a heck of a surprise. Yes, iMoney is not far away, as reps from venture capital fund of the $100 million iPhone developer ‘iFund’ checked out Billing Solutions work on one such related-iPhone technology. The mobile billing and credit card payment services company noted that the digital goods market worth $30 billion an year holds potential in making payments for physical goods. The company participated in the Under the Radar event this month, 33 other companies participated from which Billing Solutions took the first place.
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Apple’s iPhone is in the news again – though this time in a different scenario altogether. Apple Inc. is the target of a lawsuit filed by EMG Technology LLC. This came as – the lawsuit claims – the iPhone infringing a patent filed by Los Angeles real estate developer Elliot Gottfurcht, and two co-inventors.
The claim accuses Apple Inc. of its product using a technology that enables it to navigate and display some sites designed for small phone screens which in turn infringes on a patent obtained by Gottfurcht and his co-inventors (assigned to EMG) last month. Though this brings light on other phones following the same path, so why only Apple? To which Gottfurcht’s lawyer Stanley Gibson had to say:
Imeem brings more features in its app on Android G1 phone, after its release last month. Imeem has upped its service with some additions – including location-based streaming which brings popular music from the user’s city. Other features include: Artist recommendations, biography and discography and are available when you select particular artists as favorites. Imeem also gets you access to a holiday music station, while you’re at your PC or on out ‘n about with your G1. Just download the new version to get going.
BitTorrents have been a popular source of file sharing since as long as I can remember, and traffic of recent has been on the rise. Though TorrentAds is one service founded with the aim of being a torrent tracker cum an ad network for BitTorrent websites. For publishers TorrentAds promises some of the highest CPMs in the industry, whereas for advertisers it offers a serving and reporting technology through a partnership with Zedo. Don’t know whether this kind of service could kick-off or not with sites like Pirate Bay relying on different engines (Ventiv Media) for their marketing. Seems like a risk worth taking, as looking at the P2P world, one can only deduce the rewards lying ahead.
Evernote, a service that allows you to easily capture, access, and search information from anywhere, updated its app for Windows Mobile phones recently. StartupMeme covered the app’s public release in June, and can be viewed here. Evernote makes uploading photos, text, and audio notes more faster, though it depends how your carrier and phone perform. This upgrade has an improved interface, along with features that enable taking various notes, or uploading a file from your phone’s folder. The service has two packages to offer: a basic (40MB bandwidth per month for free) and premium membership (500MB per month for $5/month or $45/year).
Mixbook offers sharing photos in the new way: Photobooks. This unique method enables users to share photos in the same way as that of photo albums – just that this is online. You can create a photobook and scroll through pages where a bunch of photos are grouped together by you, and even have friends join in to make books together; as collaboration is a big part of the offerings. Sharing memories is much more fun with Mixbook’s software as it offers features through these 3 steps:
Connectture isn’t just a social network, it’s a good way for meeting professionals, that is if you’re interested in business related networking. It’s a platform where you can build personal and professional connections, and look to actually make use of your time on a social cum professional network. Creating a profile is easy, and is searchable on Google, Yahoo! and MSN. If you have a profile on LinkedIn though, you can import your details and make registration even faster; no need to re-input data. The international business network is currently available in the languages: English (U.S.) and Danish.
Google Search engine site is experiencing down-time again. Searching for images and other reference material has been a pain since this down-time is happening for quite a few days now. As before, I asked around and my friends were experiencing similar issues with the site, but particularly the issue is with the search engine. So here I am blogging about this again. Googling seems a pain lately, so nothing left to do but to turn to Yahoo in this time of distress.
Facebook is under fire, again, as Leader Technologies discovered that the social network is infringing on a patent it obtained in 2002. The company based in Columbus Ohio, is a provider of web-based enterprise software for groups, and in a press release stated that it has already filed suit in Delaware. Though in the wake of this claim it is noted that the case seems pretty weak. The company’s service is questioning Facebook’s right to offer the same technology that it has a patent for, maybe because Facebook is a social utility, and not just a social network. Otherwise Leader Technologies outcry would go waste as all the other hundreds of enterprise companies that offer the same features would be infringing their patent.
Rolando is finally set to release on the iPhone after a few months of delay. Developed by Hand Circus and being released by Ngmoco in December. The game is going to be tagged at $9.99 and seems fair enough, as the standard is like most high-quality games. It brings to iPhone its multi-touch and accelerometer technology and revolves around manipulating round characters (Rolandos), and going through obstacles to reach the goals. It’s actually pretty fun as you tilt the iPhone sideways, swipe up on the screen, etc to make the characters move around.
