"For years, payment geeks have promised that cell phones would soon replace the jingle of pocket change, ushering in a Utopian world where consumers could buy candy bars from a vending machine with a phone call," Bob Sullivan wrote last week.
Sure enough! And it looks like Apple wants to do the ushering, with plans that will let iPhone and iPad users make purchases with the wave of an iDevice.
Speaking of world domination through money control, Facebook is fixing to make Facebook Credits mandatory for third-party games on the site.
As for users: All your "Likes" are now potential advertisements spamming your Facebook friends, suckers.
(That's what you get for using Facebook on the toilet — more than 25 percent of Americans do.)
Meanwhile, big changes are allegedly afoot for what OS observers are calling Microsoft's "Windows 8."
Google announced a new privacy extension yesterday, but Mozilla, via the upcoming Firefox 4.1, is leading the way for people who want to browse the Web in private. (You know who you are.)
First your horoscope, now the Chinese calendar is wrong! Developers say this is, in fact, the Year of the Tablet!
As you know, I am not a fan of the Internet marriage proposal. If you are, here are three you'll enjoy.
But if you're like me, a fan of opportunistic taxidermy, you'll most definately enjoy this "Gallery of Badly Stuffed Animals" (which is totally a Thing on Facebook).
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