Facebook Credit at WalMart and BestBuy

Facebook Credit at WalMart and BestBuy
October 27th, 2010 Web No Comments

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

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Gmail New Features

August 11th, 2010 Web No Comments

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.
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Line Up at Apple, Eaton Centre

July 30th, 2010 Telecom No Comments

 

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].


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iPhone Pricing in Canada

July 30th, 2010 Telecom 1 Comment


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.

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