The Truth About Las Vegas Weddings [Infographic]
Author: Simone Calamai
1995: Crazy (little) thing called Internet
Back to the future of the Internet with this 1995 MTV News video! 😎
US Q2 2011 retail ecommerce: +14% YoY
It seems that even if the global economy slips again, comScore’s data hints that online retail has plenty of room to grow, and while it isn’t immune from the rest of the economy, the long-term trajectory will help the market snap back and reach greater heights once it rebounds.
Source and original article: PRNewswire
Amazon clever move
We all know that Apple is quite greedy on the App Store. Moreover, Apple is explicitly forbidding applications from including a ‘buy’ button within the apps themselves that link to an external payment flow: this is why you can’t buy an ebook using Amazon Kindle App on the iPhone/iPad.
Shortly, Amazon was facing the same problem than Financial Times and it looks like they come across the same solution: bye-bye App, welcome HTML5.
The Kindle Cloud Reader is already live, although “limited” to Chrome and Safari web browsers and iPad.
Well done, Amazon!
Kindle and Ipad: a microscopic comparison
Left: Ipad | Right: Kindle
The Ipad is cooler, but what about pure readability? Somebody has tried to answer this question using a deeper look…
Source and original article: bit-101
NFC: Beyond cell phone wallets
Near field communication (NFC) has allowed users in Asia and especially Japan to replace credit cards with phones — yet the technology has languished everywhere else, in spite of Google’s best efforts to provide a “digital wallet” that allows users to pay for things simply by touching their phone to a pad.
PalmSecure, a superior competing technology from Fujitsu has now emerged. It’s a contactless biometric system that does not require the user to have their own hardware. Near-infrared light shines up from a detector, allowing it to image the unique pattern of veins in a person’s hand. This pattern is stored as a unique identifier, not an image.
Source and original article: Technology Review
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