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iPhones Replacing BlackBerrys at Standard Chartered Bank

UK-based, Asia-operating Standard Chartered Bank is allowing its 75,000 employees to replace their BlackBerry with iPhones if they prefer. Although RIM has been riding high on consumer sales lately, they still have a massive installed base of enterprise customers. Standard Chartered is far from the biggest bank in the UK, but it’s still a significant Read more

Visa launches iPhone case that enables wireless payments, NFC style [Japan is laughing at us]

Visa, the company that probably gave you a few debt issues as a young college student, is releasing an iPhone case that enables wireless payments. Here’s how it works: The case is a glorified microSD card reader. The microSD card is what holds all the NFC circuitry required to make payments. It’s built by DeviceFidelity. Read more


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Stefan Constantinescu

Hauppauge’s WinTV Extend allows iUsers to watch live TV on the go

Hauppauge Digital, developer and manufacturer of TV tuner products for personal computers, wants a piece of the iAction. So they’ve announced that their WinTV-HVR TV tuner boards for PCs can now stream live TV over the Internet to the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch; or any other Mac computer for that matter. The streaming is Read more

Pacha VIP Guide helps iPhone users get around Ibiza, augmented reality style

Summer is approaching and who knows, you may end up on Ibiza partying all night long. Pacha, the 43-year old Ibiza club and music brand, certainly hopes so, hence they’re working on a dedicated iPhone app – Pacha VIP Guide, which will be much more than “yet another guide to Ibiza.” The trick is in Read more

iPhone OS to Integrate NFC Facebook Friending?

BlackBerry, webOS, and Android are all pretty tightly interwoven with Facebook, pulling in stuff like profile pictures for caller ID, and populating the native address book with whatever e-mail addresses, calendar with events, and phone numbers that happen to be available. We already knew contacts and events will be included in OS 4, but a Read more

Foxconn to ship 24 million 4G iPhones during 2010; have 960×640 IPS screen, 512 MB RAM

Digitimes Senior Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is claiming that Foxconn is going to ship 4.5 million 4th generation iPhones during the first half of 2010, and 19.5 million iPhones during the second half of 2010, for a combined 24 million units. Following on the myriad iPhone 4 leaks that have been hitting the blogosphere lately, Kuo Read more

Super Monko’s Ultimate Movie Buff for iPhone tests your movie knowledge while on the go

A company called Super Monko Studio is out with a new iPhone app called Ultimate Movie Buff, offering players a fun way to challenge their movie knowledge. The new quiz comes on the heels of its predecessor — the original Movie Buff — and is bigger than ever. There are more than 4,800 movie related Read more

Addison Avenue Federal Credit Union adds ATM locator channel to junaio AR platform

junaio AR app/service just got a new (and useful) channel, allowing users to locate an ATM nearby. As you can guess for yourself, once the channel is opened you will see arrows on top of camera view pointing where are ATMs around you — actually, that’s in a several mile radius. Since Addison Avenue Federal Read more

iTunes streaming may show up at WWDC

We may see a streaming version of iTunes as soon as Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference in early June, according to reports. The reported idea is simple: you can use iTunes as an online locker for the songs and videos you purchased and access these files anywhere you have Internet connectivity. This would be a godsend Read more

Apple pushed police to investigate lost, next-generation iPhone

The drama continues in the saga of the lost/stolen next-generation iPhone, as unsealed court documents show there was a lot of shady stuff beyond a dude losing the phone in a bar. Brian Hogan, the guy who found the phone and was paid at least $5,000 to give it to Gizmodo, maintains that he found Read more