Pay For Your coffee Via Smartphone - Are You Ready to Pay by Cellphone?

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Pay For Your  coffee Via Smartphone - Are You Ready to Pay by Cellphone?

Does the announcement by Starbucks Wednesday that customers could now pay for their coffee via smartphone mean the move to electronic payments is finally coming?

We’ve been hearing for years about the rise of a cashless society, one in which coins, bills and even credit cards are obsolete. One day, pulling out a credit card is going to make you look like this blogger’s mom, who continues to pay by check at the grocery store.

But it’s a bit like robot servants and virtual reality: We keep waiting, and the technology is used in other countries, but the day still hasn’t arrived in the U.S.

The Starbucks move, combined with a few other developments by companies like Google Inc., means we’re closer to real-world stores accepting these smartphone payments, even if consumers don’t make the change (no pun intended) right away.

Starbucks tested the program in several cities and found that the smartphone app was the fastest way to pay for many people. More than a third of Starbucks customers use smartphones, the company said, and many of them have their phones out anyway while in line.

The app works with the Starbucks Card system and is available on iPhone and BlackBerry devices. A version for Google’s Android platform will arrive later. When a user makes a Starbucks purchase, the cashier scans a barcode on the phone, and the sale is tied to the customer’s Starbucks Card account, which can be replenished via credit card (or PayPal in some cases).

In fact, Starbucks was so enthused about cellphone payments that it is using its own technology to enable scanning of the barcode that appears on the Starbucks Card app, technology blog Mashable points out. Another option, called “near field communication,” is touted by some as the future of mobile payments, but Starbucks didn’t want to wait for such technology to become widespread.

Delta IV Heavy - 23 Storey (235 Feet ) - World's Tallest U.S Rocket Launched

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Delta IV  Heavy - 23 Storey (235 Feet ) - World's  Tallest  U.S  Rocket Launched:

The largest ever rocket to be launched from U.S West coast, the Delta IV Heavy, took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying a national security payload for National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).Delta IV Heavy is 235 feet tall which is about 23 stories tall and is supposed to have produced 2 million pounds of thrust. The launch involved three years of preparation and $100 million in ramp infrastructure upgrade to support the launch.

The launch took place on Jan 20 at 1:10 p.m PST.

The Delta IV Heavy's features a central common booster with additional two strap-on boosters, each fitted with Whitney Rocketdyne-built RS-68 engine with each engine producing 660,000 pounds of thrust. This flight was the fifth for the vehicle in its five year history.

Mobile portability In India - How To Shift? , Frequently Asked Questions

Mobile Portability In India – How to Get shift from one service to another?

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After years of delays, mobile number portability (MNP) will finally be available all over India from January 20. Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said, “We’re very happy that we are going to launch it nationally. It’s a great step forward for the consumer. It enhances his choice.”

To shift, send an SMS from your phone to 1900. Your present company will reply with a unique porting code. Use that code while filling out a detailed form for the company you want to shift to. Within 48 hours, that company will take over all your cell services. The fees, about Rs 19.

Your cell number will be switched off for only one hour. All bills after that, are paid to your new company. You’ll be stuck with them for at least 50 days before you can shift again, so choose with care.

While you can shift from a GSM service to CDMA or vice versa, you cannot shift from one state to another. If you do, roaming kicks in, just like it does right now
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Future Planes : NASA Reveals The Airplanes Of 2025

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Get ready for the next generation of passenger airplanes.

NASA has taken the wraps off three concept designs for quiet, energy efficient aircraft that could potentially be ready to fly as soon as 2025. The designs come from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and The Boeing Company. In the final months of 2010, each of these companies won a contract from NASA to research and test their concepts during 2011.

According to NASA,

"Each design has to fly up to 85 percent of the speed of sound; cover a range of approximately 7,000 miles; and carry between 50,000 and 100,000 pounds of payload, either passengers or cargo. For the rest of this year, each team will be exploring, testing, simulating, keeping and discarding innovations and technologies to make their design a winner.

  

Apparently, NASA is aiming to develop a line of super-planes that larger, faster, quieter, and that burn fuel slower and cleaner than their present counterparts.

Facebook Partnered Aircel For Voice Updates :

Facebook Partnered Aircel For Voice Updates : 

Aircel subscribers can now update their status messages on popular social networking site Facebook using their voice.

"Facebook Voice Updates on Aircel will allow people to connect to their friends on Facebook in their own voice without internet access on their mobile phones, which makes it an easy access for a large audience anytime anywhere," Aircel said in a statement.

"Convergence is the way forward as it opens a world of possibilities. Facebook Voice Updates on Aircel is a step in that direction, which helps both the business community and the youth to connect efficiently, be it a celebration or an emergency," Aircel COO Gurdeep Singh said.

Using a short code to record your voice message, the subscriber can post the voice message as their status message on Facebook.

The user's friends then receive an SMS alert about the new status update, to which they can reply with their own voice updates on Aircel.

"Today, over 15 million people are actively using Facebook in India, where mobile devices are an important tool to stay connected. This collaboration will offer our Indian users an opportunity to easily connect and share with their friends on Facebook," Facebook Head (Mobile Business) Henri Moissinac said.

Amber Alerts - A New FaceBook Tool (Jan 2011) To Find Missing Children

Amber Alerts - A New FaceBook Tool (Jan 2011) To Find Missing Children

Amber Alerts, which have helped find 525 missing children since their start in 1996, are coming to Facebook.

Facebook users in the 50 U.S. states, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands can now sign up to receive Amber Alerts in their region. The bulletins will be sent to their Facebook pages the same way they see updates from friends or businesses they like. It's further sign just how ubiquitous Facebook has become in people's day-to-day communication.

The announcement was made Wednesday by Facebook, the Justice Department and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Thursday is the 15th anniversary of the kidnapping and murder of Amber Hagerman, the namesake for the program who was 9 years old when she was killed.

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GSAT-5p Satellite launch fails | Explodes In Mid Air Exclusive Photos And Videos

ISRO's space programme suffered a major setback on Saturday as the launch of advanced communication satellite GSAT-5P failed due to major technical fault in the first phase.

The rocket geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) exploded mid-air moments after it took off from the Sriharikota rocket launch centre.

The satellite GSAT-5P was expected to serve the needs of the telecommunication sector and the weather department and would have eventually replaced the INSAT-2E satellite that was sent up in 1999.

It weighed 2,130 kg and the cost of its production was around Rs 125 crore.

The GSAT-5P satellite had a life span of over 13 years and had 36 transponders - automatic receivers and transmitters for communication and broadcast of signals

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Google To Buy Groupon | Its Doing To Fend Off facebook

Google is near a deal to acquire Groupon, the pioneering online discounter, for as much as $6 billion, people with direct knowledge of the matter said Monday.

A deal, in the $5 billion to $6 billion range, could be struck as soon as this week, these people said, cautioning that the talks still could fall apart.

At that price, Groupon would be the largest acquisition ever for Google. The deal would make Google the market leader in the fast-growing arena of locally tailored discounts.

The acquisition would also be Google’s biggest foray into local business advertising online, a large and untapped market it has been trying to get into, most recently by promoting Marissa Mayer, an executive, to oversee the local business and trying to buy Yelp, the local review site, last year.

Over the last decade, Google has acquired dozens of companies, spending billions for the online advertiser DoubleClick and the video site YouTube.

Since it was founded in 2008 by its chief executive, Andrew Mason, Groupon has become the fastest-growing Internet company ever.

Groupon, whose name is a combination of the words coupon and group, is a group-buying site with a local focus. Subscribers receive a deal each day, tailored to the users’ location and profile. Although Groupon will offer smaller side deals, the objective is to highlight one discount for each user. A typical deal is 50 to 90 percent off retail goods and services, like restaurant certificates, sky diving lessons and spa services. It’s a formula that has taken off, turning Groupon into a cash machine with more than 12 million registered users and estimated annual revenue above $350 million.