Starting today, on the retail shopping holiday known as Black Friday here in the U.S., Walgreens will begin rolling out its new scannable mobile coupons which work at its over 7,700 stores nationwide. The coupons are being made available in the Walgreens mobile applications and to use them, you simply show your phone at checkout where it will be scanned by the cashier.
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You’ll find the coupons in a special section within the mobile application where you’re also able to sign up for SMS-based alerts.
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Coupons will only be offered one at a time every two to three days, and will range in value from $0.50 to $5.00. The discounts will be targeted towards a wide variety of products, including beauty items, gifts, consumables and everyday essentials, like diapers.
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Shoppers can also use the mobile app to view the weekly ad and sales, shop directly from their phone, browse products, check availability, scan barcodes, manage prescriptions and receive text alerts about Walgreens’ offers and exclusive deals.
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Walgreens says the coupons will be available through December 24th, but details regarding its post-holiday mobile couponing plans are not yet available.
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The Deerfield, Ill.-based company has 7,786 locations across all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, making this initiative one of the largest retail mobile couponing programs in the country.
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The Walgreens mobile app is available for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.
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Debenhams explores mobile payments | News | New Media Age [25Nov11] - 0 views
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Debenhams is in talks to introduce till payments through mobile phones as research finds that handsets are set to become ubiquitous as a way of paying for goods in five years’ time.
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The high street retailer said it is exploring ways to let customers use their mobiles to pay for goods in-store.
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Harriet Williams, Debenhams’ head of digital, said, ”It is something we are looking at and talking to partners about. When we’ve done research, we’ve seen that it’s something particularly younger customers are more interested in.”
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Williams said the department store chain would “love” to run a trial next year if all the participants needed to make mobile payments work – such as the banks and mobile operators – come together.
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Research by PayPal said that 2016 will be the year when UK shoppers will use their mobiles to pay for their shopping, increasingly replacing cash and cards.
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Robin Terrell, House of Fraser executive director of multi-channel and international, said payment through the mobile phone will “absolutely” be introduced in the future.
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However, retailers have voiced their concerns over the difficulties in ensuring all the various players work together on NFC technology.
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“As a customer, I am not going to have a different wallet for each financial institution, network and handset I have,” said Terrell. “Equally, the financial institutions will need to work together to raise the current £15 limit on NFC contactless payments. None of these issues are insurmountable, however, and the overall direction of travel is clear.”
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Just this week Starbucks said that it is launching the high street’s first iPhone mobile app payment system after growing impatient with the rate of development of NFC technology
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The coffee chain said it “did not want to wait” for the development of NFC and for it to become mainstream. Instead, it has developed its own mobile payment system using iPhone apps because so few handsets are currently NFC capable.
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French Connection said mobile payment was not on its agenda just yet but it could see the method being taken up in the future.
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Jennifer Roebuck, French Connection’s digital director, said, “There’s no reason why in five years you can’t swipe your mobile to pay for products. It’s too early days for us [but] it is logical, everyone uses a mobile for everything, such as shopping with Ocado. It’s becoming a little mini system to make payments.”
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David Smith, IMRG chief marketing and communications officer, said, “The use of smartphones is going up and more technology that goes into them so the compatibility is not beyond it. But consumer trust and how quickly retailers have a system that’s foolproof are the biggest factors. It will inevitably come but how big it will be remains to be seen.”
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Orange and Barclaycard launch smartphone payment service - IT News from V3.co.uk [20May11] - 0 views
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Orange and Barclaycard have launched the UK's first contactless payment service allowing customers to pay for purchases using a smartphone.
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Orange Quick Tap allows payments of up to £15 in over 50,000 outlets around the country, including Pret A Manger, McDonald's and Subway.
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Customers have to purchase a Samsung Tocco Lite smartphone to use the service, which is available for £55 on pay-as-you-go or free on a £10 per month, two-year contract.
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Customers also need an Orange credit card, Barclaycard or Barclays debit card to transfer money onto the Quick Tap app.
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Barclaycard is touting the system as highly secure, highlighting the fact that users can opt to input a PIN every time they make a payment.
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Using mobile phones to make payments is a natural extension of the smartphone, according to Pippa Dunn, vice president at Orange.
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"We no longer use our mobile phones simply for talking and texting. Apps, cameras and music players allow us to use them for a lot more," she said.
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"Orange Quick Tap is the first of its kind, a service that allows you to pay for everyday items just by tapping your phone wherever you see the contactless payment symbol. It's going to start a revolution in the way we pay for things on the high street."
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Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, told V3.co.uk that this will be the first of many services as near-field communication (NFC) technology becomes a common feature on Android, BlackBerry and possibly Apple devices.
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"[However], a little more work needs to be done on the service side as there are different kinds NFC approaches being used by the providers," she said.
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There are currently 12.9 million contactless cardholders in the UK, and Barclaycard expects the new service to drive adoption.
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O2 is gearing up to introduce NFC services during 2011, including a wallet application and direct-to-bill and peer-to-peer payment facilities.
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Analyst firm Juniper Research predicted that NFC will be built into one in five smartphones by 2014 as mobile payment and interactive promotions take off.
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Over 23 million NFC-capable smartphones are expected to be in circulation by the end of 2011, according to Juniper.
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Over time, using your smart-phone touch screen becomes second nature, to the point where you can even do some tasks without looking. Researchers in Germany are now working on a system that would let you perform such actions without even holding the phone - instead you'd tap your palm, and the movements would be interpreted by an "imaginary phone" system that would relay the request to your actual phone.
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The concept relies on a depth-sensitive camera to pick up the tapping and sliding interactions on a palm, software to analyze the video, and a wireless radio to send the instructions back to the iPhone. Patrick Baudisch, professor of computer science at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, says the imaginary phone prototype "serves as a shortcut that frees users from the necessity to retrieve the actual physical device."
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A new interface lets you keep your phone in your pocket and use apps or answer calls by tapping your hand.
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IDC’s Q1 scorecard for smartphones in western Europe is out. Nokia’s sales are sliding 10% year-on-year in a market for all phones growing at 5%, while the smartphone sector grew 76% (how long before we stop using the word smartphone, you might well ask). Nokia’s smartphone market share has gone from 57% to 19.6% in two years. Europe’s biggest handset maker is now Samsung and the fastest growing is HTC. The biggest platform is Android, with 35.7%, followed by Apple iOS on 20%, and then Symbian and BlackBerry OS.
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4 out of those 5 companies are heavily committed to Android, and two are also committed to Windows Phone,
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In the Android sphere, Sony Ericsson has announced the latest lot of Xperia phones. They’re keeping the Xperia Mini brand from the hit X10, and the Mini Pro gets a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Both run Android 2.3/Gingerbread and get a new Facebook app.
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Android Market is up to 295,000 apps, with 64% being free.
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SHAPE Services, a leading mobile app developer best known for its IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger app, today announced that their new location-based messaging service, named “Neighbors,” is now available as a free update to its IM+ Mobile Messenger.With “Neighbors”, user can now find new real life connections and friends, buy and sell local services and goods using an interactive map, chat with local friends as well as initiate conversations with other people who are nearby, and publish and view local offers and announcements as status updates on their profiles.
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Features:Location-Based Messaging Functionality – Allows users to find real people in their local area and easily initiate conversations, catch up with local friends and post local announcements.Location Privacy – Easy-to-understand privacy settings for disclosing user location, which includes the user’s ability to define their location as wide as their house, street or city.Interactive Map – With just a tap of the finger users can see the person’s profile and status, allowing the user to visually identify people around them.
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SHAPE Services also plans to incorporate a unique patent pending augmented reality interface that will let the users look around with a 360 degree camera view.
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today, Orange and Barclaycard officially launched 'Quick Tap', which is the UK's first contactless mobile phone payments service. The service is designed for small purchases of under £15, and contactless readers will be available at over 50,000 UK stores. You'll know that a store has the special reader when it displays the contactless payments symbol, and Pret A Manger, Eat and Subway are among the outlets to have signed up already. Quick Tap uses a secure SIM-based approach to mobile payments, and Orange customers will require a 'Quick Tap' enabled handset. The scheme launches with a Quick Tap enabled version of the Samsung Tocco Lite, and the device will be available on pay as you go and pay monthly price plans. More handsets are expected to follow from a selection of manufacturers. Barclaycard, Barclays debit or Orange Credit Card users can transfer funds of up to £100 simply and securely onto the handset's Quick Tap app, after which the phone is ready to make payments of £15 and under in a single transaction.
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Twitter is updating its authentication system to give users more control over how third-party applications can access their accounts. Applications will now have to explicitly request additional permission from the user during the authentication process in order to send and receive direct messages on behalf of the user. At first glance, the change seems like a welcome improvement to the Twitter APIs. Support for granular permission tiers is one of the technical advantages of authority delegation systems like OAuth
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Twitter's approach to implementing the feature comes with some serious problems for third-party client implementors
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The OAuth standard was originally intended to enable server-to-server authentication for limited third-party access to non-public APIs. It is poorly suited for open APIs with an arbitrary number of independent third-party applications. More significantly, it doesn't address the needs of desktop and mobile authentication at all. Despite the significant limitations of the standard, it is being adopted and mandated by a number of social networking services, including Twitter.
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OAuth authentication process must be carried out in a Web browser and involves a series of redirects: a third-party site sends the user to the Twitter website to log in and approve access and then Twitter redirects the user back to the initiating third-party site and appends a token that the third-party site can extract and use to identify the user to Twitter. The advantage of this system is that the third-party site never gets the user's actual password, just a revokeble token
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The obvious problem with this system is that the redirect dance doesn't work for native non-web applications.
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The worst thing about the Samsung RF4289HARS isn't that for $3,500, you get a little Android LCD touch-screen embedded above the ice maker whose 9 apps you can't even update. It's that it represents a missed opportunity. Samsung seems to be hell-bent on making all its appliances "smart" in the dumbest way possible. From users returning their "smart" TVs because their apps make them unusable to, well, gilded fridges that Tweet, the company seems to be designing from the perspective of "what can we cram into this device?" rather than "how can we enhance the experience of our users?" A really smart fridge, part of the Internet of Things, would know when you put that lettuce in the crisper, so it could alert you when it was about to become inedible. It would tweet its current temperature so you know when your kid failed to close the door all the way. A really smart fridge probably doesn't even have a display -- far better to control it from any other internet-connected device.
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If mobile video sharing is to follow in the footsteps of its more desirable mobile photo-sharing cousin, which application will users want to use to shoot, share and discover video clips? It’s too soon to tell, but startup Klip joins the fray and is now vying for your video attention. The startup released its application for iPhone on Monday with a focus on letting users share super-short 1-minute video clips — on Klip or with Facebook, Twitter and Youtube — and helping users discover clips from friends or other users based on topics of interests. “Klip re-invents the way consumers experience the world by organizing mobile videos in real time and by connecting consumers with the people and the topics that interest them,” the company says.
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Gamification is a hot space, and Got Badge? is a new entrant.
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The phrase “Pic or it didn’t happen” might be something you’ve heard before. Basically it means, you can’t say you’ve done something unless you’ve taken a picture of it. It’s the honor system that Got Badge? works on for claiming badges.
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Badges are broken up into categories, ranging from “Lifestyle” to “Geeky” to “Fun”. Got Badge? is super simple, super fun, and kind of addicting really.
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what makes it different, is that these aren’t multi-layered hunts to do things. They’re quick, and fun, and you can do a lot of them. That’s key.
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According to calculations by Cisco, 50 billion devices will connected to the Internet by 2020. Top technology infrastructure companies like IBM, HP and Ericsson are investing big in the Internet of things. IBM envisions a smarter planet, Ericsson envisions the social web of things. But when I look at these visions I get the feeling something is missing—the consumer. Well, she's there, but always in a passive role. These visions are more about automation and efficiency. An exemplifying scenario can go something like this one, from Cisco: Imagine your morning meeting was pushed back X minutes, and your car knows there has been an accident on your driving route causing a Y minute detour; this is communicated to your alarm clock which allows you Z extra minutes of sleep and signals to your coffee maker to turn on the appropriate minutes later. Or, from Ericsson: You call your wife on your way home in the car, asking what she wants for dinner. When you arrive home the oven has calculated with precision the time it should turn itself on and at what temperature, depending on the groceries you got from the store. I'm sure these are plausible scenarios, but I don't think the killer apps of IoT will be the connected car or Internet-oven.
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I'm much more interested in big questions like: What will be the iBeer moment of Internet of things? What will be the Farmville of connected devices? These are the seemingly silly applications that always pop up in the wake of new technological possibilities. The simple, cheap, entertaining stuff. Humans are a curious species, and we don't always make rational decisions.
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A new app in this field is TagWhat. Part augmented reality-app and part social networking service, it lets people check and view locations along with additional random info like the place's history, the famous people who lived in it, anecdotes about the neighboring establishments, or any other information that can either be trivial, interesting, or extremely useful.
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The fun, friendly user interface allows you to tag pictures, locations, as well as include your own stories and musings about a place, or even include multimedia like a video of a famous event that happened in a location, or a famous song that was written in an establishment.
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What differentiates TagWhat from Foursquare (and what makes it more like Facebook), is the fact that it eschews the formers' game mechanics and focuses on the user interaction and community building aspects of the latter. The basic use of TagWhat is that it lets users turn a view of any location into an engrossing, educational experience, as users provide interesting stories and entertaining information about every single thing that can be captured by your camera - think a diner and its history is interesting enough?
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Banjo has three main goals. One is to connect you to your social networking friends you didn’t know were nearby – for example, a friend from Facebook or Twitter, killing time at the airport, only a few gates away from you. It also wants to hep you find out what’s going on nearby by providing access to status updates and tweets from everyone around you, in a radius you specify. And it provides you with a way to virtually visit other locations, even when you’re far away, to see what’s going on with the people there.
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The people Banjo finds don’t necessarily have to have “checked in” using a location-based networking service like Gowalla, Foursquare or Facebook Places. While that helps, of course, Banjo is designed to also pull in locations from geotagged tweets, uploaded photos, and other media from all social networking services. Wait – all? Yes, that’s the plan. Patton says they have 22 services they’re focused on integrating now, but the company’s goal is to become a federation of all social networks, big and small, from around the world.
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"It's a novel user interface that's got everyone interested," said Jay Wright, a senior director for Qualcomm focused on augmented reality.
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The compass-based mapping feature you see now represents only the beginning of augmented reality's promise, Wright said. In an interview, he said the next generation of augmented reality will better integrate superimposed images with reality and work with a broader set of applications. He believes it represents an elegant way of marrying the tangibility of the physical world with information available in the digital world.
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There are still technical hurdles to surpass. More phones are starting to use a 1-gigahertz processor or faster, which is recommended to handle such tasks. The computer vision, he said, needs to be improved to it can scan three-dimensional objects rather than just flat images, which he expects is the catalyst to opening up the feature.
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