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daily 7.6

We've seen charging purchases to mobile phone bills, but Mopay has now made it possible to charge to a land line bill as well.

daily 9.30

They're fighting charges that they are responsible for a spill in Ecuador.

daily 1.12

David Vladeck, the man in charge of policing the internet for the Federal Trade Commission, gave a presentation Monday at the Interactive Advertising Bureau's conference on networks and exchanges in New York.

three things happen at once: The phone submits a $5 store coupon, his Citibank (C) MasterCard (MA) account is charged $20 for the shorts, and his loyalty card with the retailer, also stored on the phone, is credited with the purchase.

3d as in 3d rendered not 3d like glasses

CHARGE Anywhere is a contactless payment startup that has developed a system where merchants can use the Nexus S to accept NFC payments, hardware can attach to the phone to accept cards

Looks like we have again reached a tipping point of sorts in the mobile market in the U.S. The analysts at Nielsen report that in May, smartphones for the first time started to outsell feature phones, at a ratio of 55 percent to 45 percent. And although all the talk for the last several months has been about the rise of Android, Nielsen says that Apple's iPhone was driving the trend.

Crispin Porter + Bogusky is installing USB ports in Vitaminwater bus-shelter ads in Boston, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. So, you get a quick energy boost from the drink, and now your digital devices get juiced while you wait for mass transportation to whisk you off to another soul-killing day in the cube.

Holy C$#@! Am I missing something or is this massive? Combine this with Pcell (which is Mesh based). What happens when every device with a WiFi, Bluetooth or cellular conection forms a mesh network? Would everything/everyone always be connected? Who "controls it and how does anyone directly charge when it's all meshed together?

Unsure if awesome or weird. Also does not give specs on weight.

has vzw done something like this? so simple but can be memorable