Right now, I owe my best friend $25 for a They Might Be Giants concert ticket and $27 for a Magic the Gathering pre-release tournament, my boyfriend $40 because I had to order a new debit card and destroy my old one after someone used it to spend $500 at Walmart.com, and my mom $300 […]
Back in November, Techcitement talked about how much technology has changed and how much the 10 and under set have acclimated to this new tech as the baseline norm. Pop culture has plenty of references to tech that existed for kids in the 80s and 90s, leading parents to have to explain things to confused […]
PayPal has long been the standard in sending money electronically between two people. The e-commerce business has also been a stalwart in the SMB website market for accepting credit cards, and PayPal makes it easy for non-profits to accept donations from members. However, PayPal’s user interface has been the same for years and the company […]
Royal Canadian Mint challenges software developers to help create innovative new applications for digital payment with their MintChip Challenge. The incentive is payment of over two pounds of pure gold, spread out over seven different prize categories that include Best Micropayment Application, Best P2P (person to person) Application, and three Best Overall Application awards. All […]
Poor Google Wallet, hacked twice in 48 hours. Bad enough that Google has had difficulty getting the payment service approved by Verizon for its flagship Galaxy Nexus. Now, just as people are figuring out simple ways to get Wallet on their phones, a new scandal rocks the nascent world of Android mobile payments. Wednesday evening, […]
While Techcitement has given a glowing, if quick, review to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, one feature we only touched on is the operating system. Because I’ve been shopping around for a new operating system ever since HP decided to ditch the phone business, this is a good time to put Android 4.0 a.k.a. Ice Cream […]
Unless you’ve been chilling under a rock, you probably caught that Google announced the new Google Wallet. Using an NFC chip and MasterCard’s PayPass system (the one they’ve been slowly rolling out here in NY for ages), you can use your phone to pay for things. With constant rumors that the next iPhone will use […]
