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[|Cutting the Cord]
Posted By: Alei Cano

At the Mobile World Congress 2011, they introduced a new way to charge your phone wirelessly. Drop and charge your phone on a PowerMat. People are going to start seeing these around airports. PowerMat has been around for 16 months. Phones will start having a PowerMat chip as soon as next year, enabling them to charge it in any mat that is powered by PowerMat. PowerMat will be extending into automobiles as well. Furthermore, this will allow mobile video games to be charged wirelessly. This is will soon be the new form of charging all mobile devices.

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 * [|App Developers Unhappy with Apple's New Subscription Service]**
 * By Ben Parr, Mashable**

Posted By: Sahna McClure

Apple just launched for the ability for iOS application developers to deploy monthly subscriptions within their apps. If companies choose to do this apple requires a 30% revenue cut for these subscriptions and sign ups. With competition services, such as Rhapsody, right around the corner it will be interesting to see the move app developers make, and in turn, the effect it will have on the mobile world buying and using these apps.



= =[|iPhone 5 Rumor Round-Up: Bigger Screen, Better Camera, Physical Keyboard?]=

The rumors are starting to fly again in regards to what the new and highly anticipated iPhone 5 will look like. With stiff competition between Android phones, it's been rumored that the iPhone 5 will have a camera between 8 and 12 megapixels as well as a bigger screen (at least 4 inches). The possibility of a slide out keyboard in addition to the highly popular virtual keyboard is also rumored.

Which rumor do you think will come true?

Posted by: Rachael Phillips 2.16.11





=Now at Starbucks: Buy a Latte by Waving Your Phone [|Article]= ** The idea of using your mobile phone as a method for payment is not a new idea and companies have been trying to figure out how to make it happen. This January, Starbucks announced that 6,800 stores nationwide will have a service which allows customers to pay for their lattes with their mobile phones. So far, Starbucks has created a free app for the iPhone, iTouch and Blackberry which enables customers to open the app, hold their phones in front of a scanner at the register, and pay for their item/s. **

** Posted by: Alexis Stein **

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==**Confession App: Catholic Church Sanctions New iPhone App [|Article]** == ** The phrase "there's an app for that" has taken on a whole new meaning with this new confession app. This app is not meant to replace Catholics from actually attending service and confessing their sins, but instead, it's meant to make confession more accessible and a "bit more fun." With the amount of crazy and bogus apps created everyday, it's hard to judge whether this app is the real deal. According to the video and the price tag, it is. Paying $1.99 will give each person who logs in to the app personalized questions to help them state exactly what they are confessing. It may sound like a ridiculous idea, but it seems that religion is not immune from this technological world we live in. **

** Posted by: Angela Ibarra **



Gemalto brings Facebook to all mobile phones [|Article]
Gemalto, a digital security firm, has developed the technology to bring Facebook to any phone, regardless of whether or not is has internet capabilities. Facebook now has a Facebook for SIM service, which embeds the Facebook software application into the SIM card. This way, anyone with a mobile phone that uses a SIM card will be 100% compatible. Gemalto's connection will allow Facebook users to receive friend requests, status updates, wall posts, and messages. If users sign up for Gemalto's service, they will be able to search through their friends, view events, or posts shared other other friends' walls once they log in. This new application uses SMS technology, a pay-as-you-go plan. Gemalto will be offering this new technology as a free trial for a limited time, but will then operate on a subscription model.

Posted by: Christy Chierichetti

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