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Hot on the heels of Square, an iPhone add-on for making payments on the go, Visa has announced In2Pay, an iPhone case that contains a chip to allow users to provide pamyent on the go by swiping their iPhone. The add-on plugs into the bottom of the iPhone and allows you to insert a MicroSD card. With an app from the App Store, you can swipe your iPhone over a terminal, enter a password and voila, no need for that cumbersome credit card in your wallet. There are of course, a number of downsides. Since the iPhone currently does not support multitasking, you must open the app, wait for it to load, hold your phone…

There are two trends that the first half of 2010 will be remembered for: Apple’s iPad and privacy invasion, care of Facebook and Google. Surely the killer trend would be the one that combines them both? An iPad controlled video blimp is a wonderful thing. BreakfastNY has modified a “BlimpDuino” and added a camera and built an iPad app to control the whole shebang. You can even control the blimp by tilting the iPad, a nice touch. For some reason, the creators also built in some augmented reality, with faces of people seen through the video camera being displayed as Munny characters. No instructions…

Apple didn’t yell too loudly about this one but the low end, white Unibody MacBook got a refresh this morning. The black (or white) sheep of Apple’s laptop family got a boost this morning, with a faster CPU and built-in graphics card to match the entry level MacBook Pro and better battery life. The little white laptop that could is still missing a few crucial specs that its bigger brothers get to boast about. For an additional $200, the 13″ MacBook Pro boasts an SD Card slot, 4GB of RAM instead of 2GB and the shinier, tougher aluminum enclosure. The white MacBook is a decent performer, although it really…

iPod sales are declining; and with the first set of sales data from the US being released, the culprit for this drop may be Apple’s own iPad. The new research report from the NPD Group, a market researcher, shows a 17 percent drop in the year-to-year April sales of the iPod. Luckily for Apple, the iPad has not had any effect on the sales of their Mac computers, which are up at a healthy 39 percent. It should have come as no surprise for Apple that with the release of the iPad that their other products are suffering. And, in fact, iPod sales have been falling gradually since the inception of the iPhone; the…

Sure, we all like to think we know how to cope in a crisis. We all fondly imagine ourselves the heroes of the moment, the masters of the hour, but how many of us have actually put some time in before crisis cripples us and learned the right things to do when someone needs our help, or even set things up so we can get the help we need? Read on for six iPhone apps we think could maybe save someone’s life. None of these apps are a substitute for proper training, if you really want to be prepared then do take a course, but for a refresher or to boost your skills just a little bit, then tale a look at these. 1. First Aid…

Standard Chartered bankers are now being given a choice in which smartphone they would like to use. The moneylender is giving its corporate BlackBerry users the choice to switch over to the iPhone for their business dealings; this could be bad news for BlackBerry. “If more companies switch to the iPhone, this is of course bad news for [Research in Motion],” said Lu Chialin, an IT industry analyst at Macquarie Securities in Taipei. “However, it will take a long time for companies to do their own internal testing before deciding to change, so it will be a while before it has any effect on RIM.” The BlackBerry…

Alright, alright, you’ve had enough cool things to look at in the last few hours. Let’s rap for serious, real quick. The iPhone 4G has now got some official stats floating around, so here’s some straight poop on Your Next Phone. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, senior analyst for Digitimes, Foxconn will be shipping 24 million units this year (4.5 in the first half of 2010, 19.5 in the latter), starting in June. Kuo also confirmed that the 4G will feature IPS (in-plane switching) panels with FFS (fringe-field switching) technology and a 960×640 resolution – in layman’s terms, this thing is going to be…

That’s my second ‘i- prefix’ headline joke today. I’m on a roll. A couple of days ago I made all y’all privvy to a non-illustrator who is teaching himself to paint via the iPad. Now, check out what happens when a pro illustrator gets his hands on an iPhone. Kristofer Strom is a fellow illustrator I’d heard tell of before, but now he’s getting internet famous by vowing to draw something with his iPhone every day for ‘some time’. Like a true career artist, he readily admits his eventual procrastination and laziness. I respect that. Anyway, don’t not click here to rub your eyes all over the blog he’s using…

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has always had a penchant for replying to questions and accusations over his very public email address, but yesterday he went one step further, verbally sparring with a Gawker writer on topics such as freedom, Flash and pornography. Ryan Tate was angered by an Apple TV commercial that referred to the iPad as “revolutionary”, and immediately penned an email to Jobs. It’s not surprising that Jobs answered, but the debate continued over several emails. Tate is clearly writing out of frustration or anger, but Jobs remains cool and calm, calling Tate on misinformation and biased…

Swarovski has decided to dazzle us with a sparkly technicolored jeweled case. This iced-out case is made up of  1,500 pieces of those tiny jewels. All the  crystals used on the case are 100% genuine Crystallized Swarovski Elements.The case is a limited edition for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS made by Distinctive Style. There are only 100 limited edition cases available, and each all have something a little different about them, making them all unique. What if you don’t have an iPhone but have a BlackBerry or Nokia… no problem! They have a custom service which lets you pick the phone you want to…