Items tagged with Pounce
An app from BuyCode, Inc. called “Pounce” lets you point your smartphone camera at a photo of a product in a print circular, newspaper, or magazine and then buy the item from that retail outlet with just a couple of taps. When you click “Buy Now”, the retailer ships the item directly to you. Currently, retailers you can buy from are limited to Pounce’s partners, which include Ace Hardware, Staples, Target, Toys R Us, and Babies R Us, but it appears that more partners are in the offing. The app keeps your purchasing information, including shipping and billing addresses, locked on your phone; it doesn’t store that information anywhere remotely. Further, the transaction...
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Apple is gathering the faithful for a shindig that is rumored to be going down the last week of this month. It seems quite likely that this will be a launch event for Leopard, but could Apple have other product announcements up their sleeve?Still, we expect the big news to be about Leopard. Why? It's all about the timing (And Apple's self-imposed deadline):“Historically, Apple has tapped the final Friday of the month to roll out its major operating system overhauls. For instance, it launched Mac OS X Tiger on the eve of Friday, April 29, 2005.Sources have yet to rule out the possibility that Leopard would be accompanied by additional announcements from the Cupertino-based company.”Additional...
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