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Amazon launches Amazon Mobile Payments Service
Amazon has been very successful as an e-commerce site and now the company is beginning to gain a reputation for its payment options. That’s why Amazon this week announced the new Amazon Mobile Payments Service (Amazon MPS) for developers and merchants . The service allows Amazon.com customers the ability to access payment information using their [...]
Halloween hijinx with a DIY moving pumpkin
Want a project that will startle those little candy beggars on October 31st? The people over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have just the thing to add a little fright to your porch when the munchkins come calling “trick or treat” later this month.
The Rovin Pumpkin has been fashioned out of a pie pumpkin that has been [...]
PS3 picked up by advertisers for interactive digital advertising
At CEATEC in Japan this week the PS3 is being used beyond the gaming and entertainment capabilities it was designed for. Advertisers have realized that the console’s video processing power could be put to good use helping to get consumers looking at and interacting with adverts.
Sony’s console forms the heart of a new digital signage [...]
Microsoft gets serious about design at Open House
Microsoft isn’t generally a company people associate with good design but at their Open House / Windows Mobile 6.5 launch yesterday they seemed to have been trying to change that. Of course, this is referring to “design” in the MoMA sense of the word, the sort beautiful-yet-functional aesthetic talked about by people with overly ornate [...]