The payments space is evolving quickly, and lots of NFC-enabled schemes are brewing, but SparkBase has leaped ahead and is launching a wireless store loyalty card scheme that works using existing tech.
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Feed SubscriptionThe DNA–People, Processes, And Philosophies–Of Innovative Companies
In the new book The Innovator's DNA, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton Christensen discuss the three things that set companies steeped innovation apart from the thousands of other companies doing business. Drawing on a sample of companies that lead both lists, we dove deeply into the practices of some of the world's most innovative companies
Read More »It’s Becoming Smartphone World, And Nokia’s Hurting Badly Because Of It
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Read More »New Macs Arrive-One Goes, Apple Lion OS Launches, Google Site-Blocking Bug, Anonymous-LulzSec Arrests, Twitter’s Commerce Plans
This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors.
Read More »Apple’s Astonishing Earnings Aren’t The Full Story: There’s Still Room For Huge Growth
Apple 's spectacular rise continues.
Read More »Android, Meet iPhone: Mobile Video Becomes Platform-Independent
Thanks to Skype, Apple FaceTime and at least a half dozen other mobile video apps, the old-fashioned phone call is becoming pass
Read More »Atlantis Heads Home, CNN Goes iPad, Borders Closes, Apple IP Win Boosts Windows Phones, Baidu Music Deal, LulzSec Hacks Murdoch
This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors. Space Shuttle Atlantis Coming Home For Ever . At 4:18 this morning EDT , the Space Shuttle Atlantis fired its maneuvering rockets to take it away from the International Space Station and begin its journey home to Earth for one final time, closing the Shuttle era
Read More »Adobe Enhances PDFs, Music Releases Get Gamey, Spotify Invites As PR Trick, ITC Rules For Apple
Adobe Buys Echosign . Desperately keen to preserve its flagship PDF format in a complex and changing online world, Adobe has bought "the premier electronic signature provider" to enhance PDF security with automated secure signatures and form-filling for advanced digital contract drawing-up. The PDF is not going anywhere yet..
Read More »Dear Netflix Subscribers: Stop Whining
Consumers are reacting to price increases on Netflix the same way Tea Partiers are likely to react if the government raises the debt ceiling.
Read More »Inside Pandora’s New Social Music Mind-Meld
Pandora already acts like an all-knowing DJ. This week, it launched tools and tweaks to its Music Genome Project algorithm that could factor your friends' song choices into a streaming social megamix. Founder Tim Westergren and CTO Tom Conrad explain.
Read More »A Sneak Peek At Amazon’s New Tablet
Amazon's tablet PC has now all but been confirmed for an early fall launch.
Read More »Apple PC Share Grows, Android For Amazon, Spotify Hits U.S., New iPhone Date Rumors
Apple PC Share Grows. Apple's share of the U.S. PC market has soared to a 10.7% all-time high, up from 8.5% at the end of 2010--taking the third place as a PC retailer behind HP and Dell.
Read More »New Tweaks Could Turn Apple TV Into A Game-Playing, Video-Chatting, Multimedia Superstar
Code snippets found in iOS 5 ,
Read More »Apple, iPhones, And Mobile Broadcasting’s Bright Future
While the BBC is bringing smartphone tech to its journalists for on-the-spot newscasting, Apple has its own plans for this tech--and it's quite promising for everyone from foreign correspondents to citizen journos. Whether you think it's a good thing or not , citizen journalism is on the rise .
Read More »The Top 10 Places People Lose Their Smartphones
"Can you call my phone?" How many times have you been asked this question in the last year? Losing your phone, whether between your couch cushions or (like most Apple employees) at a bar, is a common headache. But finding your phone is another story, one that usually requires a bit of serendipity or the kindheartedness of a good samaritan
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