Mario and Rasheen discuss Jessie Jackson Jr.’s suggestion that the iPad is causing people to loose jobs.
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This is pretty cool. In an attempt to make even more waves in the mobile credit card processing arena, Square has teamed up with Apple to sell the Square card reader online and in Apple retail stores. Previous to this announcement, the readers were only sent via snail-mail to users who went through the Square sign up and activate process. Now Square has some help from Apple to get the popular readers into small business owner’s hands.
The Readers are $9.95 and are also available in black. If you’re an early adopter like me and signed up as soon as they were being offered, you only had a choice of white. For those with a little more patience, you will be rewarded with your choice of white or black. Those of us who MUST have a black reader to match our Apple gadgets (God only knows when the white iPhone 4 will officially surface), you can still buy it at full price, but Square is offering customers a $10.00 transaction credit when a new Square account is activated. That’s only fair since original customers who signed up were issued a free reader.
All of same features still exist for new Square users who buy the reader at Apple:
If you’re a small business that won’t swipe enough credit cards to require a full merchant account, but want to offer your customers more ways to pay—march into your local Apple store, pick up a Square reader, sign-up, and get to swiping.
Mario interviews Brendan Lynch, the Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft Corporation’s Trust Worthy Computing.
Last week we talked about why we Jailbreak our iOS devices. So, in the interest of equal time, let’s now discuss the analogous activity for Android users known as ‘rooting’. Although it is possible to root nearly any Android phone under the sun, some handsets are easier to gain root access to than others. Now, here’s the good news: the fellows over at Unrevoked.com have put together a list which orders phones by root-friendliness, which could be a great resource for anyone looking to buy and root a droid.
According to the list, devices like the Nexus One and S have rooting supported out of the box. Additionally, devices like the Motorola Droid and G1 are very easy to root, whereas devices like the HTC Desire constantly try to keep you from gaining root access with updates and other safeguards.
While “rootability” isn’t the most important spec in choosing a phone, it is definitely something that many users might note. Any device is rootable if you try hard enough—but if you don’t want to go through a lot of trouble and still want to feel like a phone hacker, take a look at this list before you aquire your Droid.
I have good news for you Windows fans out there! Darren Murph over at Engadget writes that Skype for Windows Phone 7 is “definitely coming this fall.” Confirmation comes courtesy of Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore: “Skype will be coming to the Windows Phone 7 platform this fall” he stated while speaking live at MIX 11 (full keynotes can be found here). The initial rumors that Skype would never be offered on Windows Phone were quite disappointing, so I am pleased to see this offering.
Skype for iOS has been a game changer, since it allows people to have video conferencing with no need for Facetime and without using your minutes. iPod touch and iPad users can use Skype to make calls without phone plan – provided there’s a reasonably fast Wifi connection available, of course. Due to this, Mobile Skype is arguably the most powerful free application for the platform.
This announcement really starts to level the playing field of mobile platforms. I don’t even have a phone on my desk anymore; a headset plugged into my iMac and Skype handles my business-call needs. This also strongly implies that there will be a Windows phone with a front facing camera coming down the pipe.
Mobile Health (aka mHealth) is an emerging industry helping us to be more proactive about our health, take a look:
Greetings from the beautiful French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana! In the grand French tradition of Jean Valjean, today our topic is ‘jailbreaking’. If you’ve recently jailbroken your device for the first time, or you are thinking of jailbreaking your device, you probably don’t know where to start. Luckily, Brian Sweet over at Cult of Mac has written an in-depth post on his six favorite things about jailbreaking.
The highlights:
So if you are into taking risks, or just like to tinker with things, you might consider a jailbreak for your iPhone. Like they say: information wants to be free, so why not unlock it?
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