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Walmart, Best Buy won’t accept Apple Pay at their Stores but their-own method is coming soon
Though the highways and byways of America may be dotted with their stores, customers shopping at Walmart and Best Buy they won't be able to pay it using the new Apple Pay system announced this week. Both retailers are eschewing the NFC method of payment in favor of another mobile wallet application.
Apple’s new system is backed by some bunch of banks and credit-card issuers to provide support for Pay, which will allow customers to buy things at certain retailers with the newest iPhones.
But while the financial institutions might be all for it, it seems retailers are a bit more sluggish, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Thus far, iPhone 6 owners will only be able use Pay to purchase products at 220,000 retail locations in the United States, like McDonalds, Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s. But that number pales in comparison to the more than nine million merchants in this country that accept credit and debit cards.
Using NFC requires retailers to install readers at the checkout line to accept the payments, but only about 10% of total merchants are using those readers. Best Buy had NFC-enabled scanners at many stores back in 2011, but stopped using them because it was too expensive to keep them, a spokesman said. It’s not planning on going back down that road, the company said, despite Apple’s push for Pay.
Walmart also confirmed that their customers won’t be able to use Apple Pay.
Instead, both retailers are getting behind a mobile technology group that’s owned by retailers, called the Merchant Customer Exchange. MCX is in turn launching a mobile wallet application called CurrentC coming in 2015, which will only require a software download instead of checkout scanners, and can be used on any iPhone or Android phone already in use, instead of just the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Which means there will be a strong rivel for the Apple Pay soon.
#Apple #WalMart #BestBuy #Pay #iPhone #iPhone6
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13-September-2014
Sony 4K Ultra Short Throw Projector for only 50,000 Dollars
If you love watching in short-throw projectors and hate money, you can officially purchase Sony’s brand new short throw 4K projector for a grand total of $US50,000 dollars. But if and only if you live in the New York area.
When Sony says the VPL-GTZ1 ($50,000) is an "ultra-short-throw" projector, everyone thinks they are kidding but they showed it to all. It can project a massive image from 0 inches away yes Zero. The case can be against the wall you're projecting on.
But even more important was the news that you'll be able to get hundreds of 4K movies in your home very soon. Interested?
Honestly, though, if you can afford it, go for it. This thing is actually pretty great. [Sony]
#tags : #Sony #technology #projectors
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13-September-2014
Kevin Rose launches Tiiny, a fun iPhone app for sharing temporary photos and videos
The cofounder of Digg has a new photo app that's perfect for people who don't like to post photos or videos of themselves. It's called Tiiny.
Tiiny has a simple interface that lets you capture a photo or 5-second-long GIF, without sound. All your media's are displayed in a continually-refreshing grid that your friends can follow and check's out. Your images appear very tiny - at 212 pixels x 212 pixels each - and your followers can't expand them to see detail. Your friends can only like them. Which means you won't have to be look impeccable in every shot, because no one will see all the fine details.
But that's not all: your photos and GIFs disappear after about 24 hours. Tiiny wants everyone to know their photos aren't permanent things sitting in some album on your online profile for everyone to examine and scrutinise. You should feel comfortable posting through Tiiny because things are small and won't come back to haunt you.
Kevin Rose former American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk, only recently launched Tiiny but won't be phased if it doesn't become a huge hit like Snapchat, according to TechCrunch. The app only took three weeks to build at his mobile lab called North, and the small team behind it plans to release a new app every few months until one explodes in popularity: “It’s about having as many shots on goal as possible,” Rose admitted in an interview.
Tiiny is available in Apple's App Store as a free download. It requires iOS 7 or later and is optimized mainly for iPhone 5.
- Via: TechCrunch
- Source: Tiiny
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13-September-2014