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Facebook Credit at WalMart and BestBuy
It’s been about nine months since Facebook rolled out its virtual currency, Facebook Credits.
Now the Internet social networking giant will make its Credits widely available in the physical world, by selling them on pre-paid gift cards available at Best Buy and WalMart stores in the United States.
No, you can’t use Facebook Credits to buy a six-pack of beer or a new iPod. The currency remains limited to use in the social games and applications popular on Facebook, where people can use Facebook Credits to buy virtual crops for planting in the Farmville game, for example.
Facebook began selling Facebook Credit gift cards at Target stores earlier this year, but landing on WalMart and Best Buy shelves should vastly expand the availability of its fledgling currency – at the end of 2009, WalMart had more than 3,600 stores in the United States.
Facebook won’t say what percentage of its more than 500 million users currently use Credits, though the company says the idea of selling Credits cards in brick-and-mortar retail stores is to expand access to a broader group of people and to increase the use of Credits.
And with Facebook taking a 30 percent cut of the revenue that application-makers book on transactions involving Facebook credits, the more people that are using Credits, the better for Facebook.
Facebook Credits gift cards will be available, beginning this week, in denominations of $10, $25 and $50 at BestBuy and $5, $10 and $25 at WalMart, with a special $50 card available at Walmart.com.
News By: Reutes.com
Gmail New Features
Gmail new Features
A new look for Gmail
We’ve pruned our pixels and made it easier to get to Contacts and Tasks.
- Mail, Contacts, and Tasks links have moved to the top left of Gmail.
- Compose mail is now a button rather than a link.
- A smaller header area puts the first message in your inbox about 16 pixels higher on the screen.
- The Select All, None, Read, Unread, and Starred links that used to be above your messages are now options in a drop-down menu, next to theArchive button.
Updates to Contacts
We’ve also done a major overhaul to Contacts, adding a bunch of features you requested and making Contacts easier to use.
- Contacts work a lot more like Mail. Keyboard shortcuts now work in Contacts too, and we’ve made selecting and grouping contacts more like selecting and labeling email.
- Sort contacts by last name. Look under More actions for this option.
- Use custom labels for phone numbers and other fields. For example, you can label a phone number as “Vacation home.” Please be aware, ActiveSync for iPhone and Blackberry Sync don’t yet support custom labels so custom labeled numbers/emails/etc. may not appear on your phone.
- Undo. Now, when you make changes to your contacts, you can undo your recent changes.
- Automatic saving. You no longer need to worry about “edit” mode or “view” mode — just edit away and Gmail will save your changes.
- Structured name fields. You can now set name components (i.e. Title, First, Middle, Last and Suffix) explicitly or continue to use the name field as a free form area if you prefer a less structured approach.
- Manual and bulk contact merge. You can now merge contacts from the More actions menu. Just select the contacts you’d like to merge and select Merge contacts from under the More actions menu. Or, to get a list of suggestions for contacts to merge, select Find and merge duplicates.
Line Up at Apple, Eaton Centre
Today, I have went to Apple of Eaton Centre at Down Town Toronto. Just after called many retailers of Rogers and Fido around the City to purchase the new iPhone 4 that has just launched by Apple in Canada. All of them were sold out.
Fido advised me the only location that still has the item available would be the Apple Store at Eaton Centre, so without losing a min, I went downtown with the hope to buy the new Exotic iPhone. I’ve arrived there around 1:00 PM, where I’ve seen the longest line up ever. Approximate length of line was about 300 meters, it had gone all around the corners. It was very obvious that many of those people in line were there from previous night.
Apple employees where busy by handing out the Pre-made sandewiches, Water and candies to keep the cutomers in good mood. The line were there till 9:00 PM, when there were only few peoples infront of me. It was then that Chris, the Senior manager announced that they have to close the store for the day.
Everything was cool except few factors that made me think about the Big Apple Company.
- Instead of handing Sandwiches, water, and candies they could simply save the money and add more employees and Computers where they could serve more customers at once.
- They must known the launch day from so long before, so why they didn’t simple made some arrangement for sudden breakdown of their systems, which did happened for their Rogers Channel. Which they had to work so hard to bring it back on.
- It was so stupid that, As Chris Advised us: Each activation of Contracts took about 30 min per customer. so you can image what a waist of resources and effort to serve about 1500+ people in line.
- The line up hardly moved every 45 min.
- They had to record the names incase of Needs twice.
- They give out cards which by their definition could save us a iPhone in reserve incase they couldn’t serve us on same day. The card is not a priority for next days, which means if I want to go tomorrow and buy the iPhone 4, I Must Stand In Line all over again [Pffffffffff].
iPhone Pricing in Canada
Finally the iPhone is here, In Canada. Unlike the first time that iPhone came to canada when only rogers had the monopoly of selling the Apple Phone in entire canada. Now, Rogers, Bell, Fido and Telus Mobility are offering the iPhone 4.
The prices are different for those who are willing to sign 2 or 3 Years Contracts. The following details are short description of what Rogers is Offering.
With 3 Years:
32 GB | Black | 269$
16 GB | Black | 159$
and this is what Fido stated for those whom are eligiable to Extend their contracts:
You are eligible to upgrade to iPhone 4 16GB at $159 (after a $490 bill credit or discount off the no-term price) and 32GB at $269 (after a $480 bill credit or discount off the no-term price), each with a 3 year Fido Agreement and Data Add-on.
You may use your FidoDollars towards the purchase price Full conditions below, see in-store for details.
iPhone 4 will be available as of July 30th, 2010, at which time you can upgrade by visiting your nearest Fido store or Fido authorized reseller Fido will not be taking pre-orders for the iPhone 4.
iPhone 4 Coming This Friday [17 Countries]
The iPad launch may come a bit late in some countries, but at least the iPhone 4 is arriving on schedule. According to a statement from Apple, the device will be available in 17 more countries this Friday, July 30.
The countries are as follows: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The iPhone 4 is already available in France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the U.S., which brings the total number of countries where the device is available to 21.
As far as other countries are concerned, Apple claims that the “iPhone 4 will roll out to many more countries later this year and Apple will announce availability and local pricing for these additional countries at a later date.”
Rest In Peace FaceBook Gift
Facebook is winding down its “Gift Shop” feature, the company announced today. Facebook Gifts will stop operating on August 1, although gifts you’ve received previously will remain on your wall.
It’s a surprising move from Facebook, who stands to become a significant player in online transactions thanks to Facebook Credits. Given that gifting is a great advertisement for the benefit of making transactions on Facebook, we can only imagine that giving Gifts is wildly unpopular. Facebook Credits perhaps doesn’t need a helping hand, either: The rapid rise of Facebook games has assured the success of the Credits scheme.
If you’re into gifting on Facebook, you still have a few options: Birthday Cards and Pieces of Flair to name a couple.
Facebook’s Jared Morgenstern says of the closedown:
“Closing the Gift Shop may disappoint many of the people who have given millions of gifts, but we made the decision after careful thought about where we need to focus our product development efforts.
We’ll be able to focus more on improving and enhancing products and features that people use every day, such as Photos, News Feed, Inbox, games, comments, the ‘Like’ button and the Wall.”
RIP, Facebook Gifts.
FaceBook Gift
Adobe Flash is Going 3D
3D for Flash
The news of the update first leaked out via the agenda of October’s Adobe Max conference, which includes a presentation entitled “Flash Player 3D Future.”
Adobe product manager Thibault Imbert then drew attention to the presentation in a blog post, but declined to give further details, save for the fact that Adobe will release a “3D API” in a “future version”:
“If you are into 3d development for games, augmented reality or just interactive stuff like websites, you just can’t miss the session entitled Flash Player 3D future scheduled for Max 2010 scheduled on October 27 at 11:00AM in room 503. Sebastian Marketsmueller (Flash Player engineer) will deep dive into the next generation 3D API coming in a future version of the Flash Player.
Now you may wonder, what does this means, what kind of 3D are we talking about ? What kind of API ? True textured z-buffered triangles ? GPU acceleration ? Even better ? What I can say is forget what you have seen before, it is going to be big
When this will be available ? We will share plans with you at Max during this session, I tell you, some serious stuff is coming for 3D developers.”
Adobe, it seems, aims to become a platform for 3D content. The idea seems sound, but we’ll await details until we pass judgment. There’s little to go on here.
[via CNet News]
Apple sued over iPhone 4 antenna problem
Apple has been sued by iPhone customers in at least three complaints related to antenna problems on its newest model.
Apple launched the iPhone 4 last week to a huge groundswell of demand. But the launch was also plagued by complaints from some customers about poor call reception on the device when they held it in a certain way.
The problems have been a hot topic on the Internet, but it is unclear how many people have been affected. The issue does not seem to have hurt iPhone sales so far. Apple sold 1.7 million new iPhones in the first three days.
A putative class action filed Tuesday in the U.S. District court for the Northern District of California against Apple and AT&T — the iPhone’s exclusive wireless carrier in the United States — includes allegations of fraud by concealment, negligence, intentional misrepresentation and defective design.
“The iPhone 4 manifests design and manufacturing defects that were known to defendants before it was released which were not disclosed to consumers, namely, a connection problem caused by the iPhone 4′s antenna configuration that makes it difficult or impossible to maintain a connection to AT&T’s network,” the lawsuit said.
It said Apple and AT&T have failed to provide customer support and customers have been left with only thee remedies: “hold their phones in an awkward and unnatural manner,” pay a 10% restocking fee and return their phones, or pay $29.95 to buy one of Apple’s cases that are said to fix the reception problem.
The iPhone 4 represents a complete redesign over the previous model. A band around the rim of the smartphone acts as its antenna.
The company responded to user complaints last week by saying the antenna performance of every wireless phone is impacted in some way by the how it is held, depending on where the antenna is located.
Apple and AT&T both decline to comment Thursday.
In another purported class action complaint filed on Wednesday against Apple and AT&T, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Kevin McCaffrey and Linda Wrinn said they were sold “defective” iPhone 4 units, which drop calls and data service, “when held in a manner consistent with normal wireless phone use.”
Both suits cite emails reportedly sent from Apple Chief executive Steve Jobs, responding to iPhone customers complaints’ about reception. Those responses were widely circulated on the Internet.
In one response, Jobs said: “Just avoid holding it (the iPhone] in that way.”
The cases are 10-02862 Goodglick v. Apple Inc, and 10-01776 McCaffrey et al v. Apple Inc. et al.
The shares of Cupertino, California-based Apple fell 1.5% to $247.80 in midday trading on the Nasdaq. The shares of Dallas-based AT&T fell 0.4% to $24.18 on the New York Stock Exchange.
By Gabriel Madway, Reuters
Facebook Hires White House Economics Expert
Economist
A round of applause for Facebook’s HR department, please. Today, the company announced that it’s managed to hire Marne Levine, who last held the title(s) “Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Chief of Staff of the National Economic Council at the White House.”
Levine, who should remain based in Washington, will now “oversee the company’s interaction with governments and non-governmental organizations around the globe as the company reaches 500 million users worldwide,” according to Cecilia Kang.
That’s bound to be a big job. Dealing with U.S. regulators alone has proven tricky for Facebook at times; handling dozens different approaches to privacy (and propriety) won’t be simple.
Still, Levine seems to be a good choice for the position. Before joining the current president’s administration, she was Director of Product Management at Revolution Money. Prior to that, she was Director of Business Development and Strategy at Cibernet.
Then, to go back even further, Levine once served as Chief of Staff for the president of Harvard, and used to work for the Department of Treasury, too. Which makes for a rather colorful – yet impressive – resume.
It should be interesting to see what Levine can accomplish in her new role.
Source: webpronews.com
