It’s a good time to master the basics of mobile money. Aready, smartphones can pay for Big Macs, Girl Scout cookies, and taxi rides. With the much-anticipated rollout of Google Wallet underway, some models will also be able to spend gift cards and pay at many more locations. Google Wallet and MasterCard PayPass, two examples of mobile money, work by storing your card data (from credit cards, prepaid cash cards, and loyalty cards) on your phone, then transmitting the info to the checkout stand when you wave or tap your device.
“It’s really just a matter of jumping in and starting to develop something,” says CompTIA’s Thibodeaux. “Once you create your first program, you get the bug … It’s definitely a learning-by-doing kind of thing because it’s changing so quickly all the time that you have to be in the business of doing it to really stay on top of it.”
Are Video Game Re-Creations of bin Laden’s Compound in Poor Taste?
Some are criticizing the bin Laden levels as inappropriate—they say it trivializes a person’s death or is simply too soon. Others defend the idea as normal for the gaming world, pointing to games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which drops players into similar-to-real-life worlds where they fight familiar enemies.
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This particular cover has been a popular image for articles relating to US News’ transition phases: here, here, here, and here, for example.
The related article, They know where you are was written by tech writer David Lagesse in August, 2003.
