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VeriFone and PayPal have just announced they're teaming up to bring PayPal's next-generation payment system to the country's large retailers. PayPal can already be used in about 2,000 Home Depot stores. And you probably use a VeriFone machine at least once a day when you shop in stores and pay for your purchases by card--the company is one of the world's top payment technology makers, and says that its customer base includes 80% of the top 200 largest retailers in the U.S. The new partnership brings a simple software ugrade to Verifone terminals by the retailers in question--but it's a big leap for PayPal and potentially for the average consumer. The Way We Shop Now VeriFone and PayPal's new venture joins several other recent payment ... Continue reading →

Click to enlarge. (Credit: FCC) There's nothing like Apple's iPhone to get the rumor mills churning. Today, for example, the iPhone 4 passed through the FCC's certification database for the second week in a row. In the filing you'll find the standard paperwork about the phone's specific absorption rate, plus a diagram of its rear face. All things considered, it's pretty boring stuff including the attached request for confidentiality. This morning Patently Apple posted the June 4 request and speculated that perhaps Apple was trying to hide technical details from the public. Indeed, that is what's happening here, but it's not nearly as exciting or surprising as some rumors suggest. So go ahead and put away those Verizon and "magical hidden feature" conspiracy theories. Like ... Continue reading →

Requests "confidentiality treatment" for iPhone 4 specs even as it spills the beans on iTunes Patently Apple has turned up a curious letter. It was sent on June 4, three days before Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone 4, to the Federal Communications Commission -- the government agency that must certify any wireless device before it can be marketed in the U.S. Signed by Apple's (AAPL) wireless compliance manager, it requests confidentiality for a wide range of documents the company had submitted with its application for certification -- from exterior photos and the user manual to block diagrams, schematics and bills of materials. "Although Apple has begun to market the device publicly," the letter states, "these documents reveal technical and design information that has not been ... Continue reading →

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Josh Tank, best known to cinema fans for directing the recent, found-footage superhero movie Chronicle, will take the helm for Sony Picture’s live-action adaptation of Shadow of the Colossus, the popular PlayStation 2 title that allowed players to single-handily take down gigantic, ancient creatures. Shadow of the Colossus was one of the most praised games for the PS2. The action-adventure title, developed by Team Ico and directed by Fumito Ueda, told the story of a man who had to kill 16 colossi in order to bring his love back to life. Kevin Misher, who most recently brought us the comedic take on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Mirror Mirror, will produce the film. Sony Pictures is currently looking for writers for the project, according ... Continue reading →