The brand that consumers will see when Visa’s digital wallet launches early next year won’t be the Visa logo. The payments company will be using the name V.me to distinguish its upcoming digital wallet from its other services. Consumers will be able to fund the digital wallet using a variety of sources — a Visa, MasterCard or bank account. It will be used to check out online using a user name and password, rather than having to key in the 16-digit number each time. The idea is similar to eBay’s PayPal, and to services by Amazon as well as e-wallet
Read MoreEarlier today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA) which, depending on who you ask, is either a means to stop piracy and copyright infringement on so-called "rogue" websites, or the most serious threat of internet censorship that we've seen in some time. In the latter camp are some of the biggest internet companies around, including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, eBay, LinkedIn, Mozilla, Zynga and AOL, who today made their stance clear by taking out a full-page ad in The New York Times. The ad itself is a letter sent by the
Read MoreA UK startup called MiniatureMoments has created a fairly unique keepsake for you and yours. These things are 3D-printed negatives that appear when you hold them up to the light (weighs around 5 grams) 46mm x 37mm. They are translucent and are about as big as a passport photo and custom-designed with your own portrait. The miniatures, especially their size and color, are actually redolent of an earlier era. Each miniature costs US- $40,UK- 25 £, EUR- 30€ shipped within 14 days, which is steep for a rigid postage stamp. The material is a resin printed by an Objet 3D
Read MoreEver thought Amazon's upcoming tablet, the Kindle Fire, will be able to take down Apple's iPad. There were a lot of factors to consider, from Flash compatibility to price, but in the end only one tablet could come out on top, and Apple came out with a strong majority. The iPad came out ahead no matter how we broke it down, but the Kindle Fire flourished most among those who would have a harder time affording the iPad. Younger buyers hardly even considered the Kindle -- maybe because they expected their parents to buy their tablet for them, or because
Read MoreOpinion-based social community SodaHead.com polled 1,150 readers about the gifts they most wanted this year. The below infographic shows the results, including the most desired tablets, what adults think kids wants and whether people think the holidays have become too materialistic.
Stanford’s iPad and iPhone Application Development (CS193P) course is now available for free on iTunes U. The course includes lectures and lessons focused on iOS 5 app development. It’s broken out over 11 episodes that consist of videos and slides. The prerequisites are C language and programming experience and/or general object-oriented programming and UNIX experience. Tools and APIs required to build applications for the iPhone platform using the iPhone SDK. User interface designs for mobile devices and unique user interactions using multitouch technologies. Object-oriented design using model-view-controller pattern, memory management, Objective-C programming language. iPhone APIs and tools including Xcode, Interface Builder and
Read MoreCheck out the infographic below for Juniper's research findings.
Google Maps developers just launched a drawing library for the Google Maps API, so that developers who build on Google Maps can add simple tools for users to draw markers, lines and shapes on to maps. This simple interface offers a surprising range of features for developers building applications upon Google Maps. The Drawing Library provides a toolbox which enables users to draw markers, lines, and shapes on the map, much as they would in any drawing application. The tools can be used for collecting annotations from users, or for selecting regions to search or highlight. Applications can listen for events
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