A Woman, A Cupcake, A Bank And A Square: Why Credit Card Companies Are Scared Of Change. In the sleepy Columbus, Ohio suburb of Canal Winchester there is a shop that makes cupcakes. These are not ordinary cupcakes; these are fantastic cupcakes. In fact the name of this establishment—Fantasy Cupcake—is no boast and can readily back up the hype (trust me, I ate one and it was killer). A relatively new business owned and operated by Leah Dotson, Fantasy Cupcake chose Square as its processor when it came time to set up a transaction mechanism for accepting credit cards.
And then a funny thing happened. Most of the visiting merchant services reps looked at the Square rate plan Leah had worked out and admitted she had a good deal and that indeed, Square would be her best bet. But there were two that didn’t go so smoothly. A Key Bank rep came in with an offer and a flyer—“We’ll give you 300 bucks if we can’t beat your current merchant rate plus give you $100 to switch to our service.” The First Data Rep? So what was this mis-information? The breakdown compared something like this: ASSA ABLOY offers access control systems for educational institutes and schools | Security News. Published on 24 Jan, 2011 ASSA ABLOY Access Control will be showcasing its smart locking system as part of a wide range of integrated security solutions for schools, at this year's BSEC exhibition. Visitors to stand 20434 can see live demonstrations of Aperio as a wireless locking solution, which can be incorporated into existing access control systems simply and cost effectively to instantly update the security of a school building.
In addition to Aperio, specifiers can also view the latest range of electric locks and door operators, which only draw on power when being opened, making them a more energy efficient and environment friendly alternative to magnetic door security solutions for schools. Says Guy Willott of ASSA ABLOY Access Control: "School buildings are faced with complicated safety and security issues like never before, which now have to be overcome with due consideration to the cost and environmental impacts of every decision made. " WARNING: Change this New Facebook Privacy Setting ASAP! (VIDEO) By – January 27, 2011Posted in: Facebook, Media, NEWS ROOM, Random, SOCIAL MEDIA, VIRAL CONTENT Account Security on Facebook is Super Important! Ok this is SUPER IMPORTANT! Thanks to an article in Gawker that I just read we will all know how to do it.
Basically it’s called Facebook HTTPS and it enables a more secured way to browse Facebook when you are on an unprotected wireless network. Here’s a line from the article that really caught my attention: This is obviously a MUST so be sure to make this change in your privacy settings ASAP. Facebook is still rolling out the feature so if it’s not in your account yet it will be in a few days. Here are the steps… - STEP #1: Go To This link: - STEP #2: click ‘Account Security’ - STEP #3: Click the box for “Secure Browsing (HTTPS)” - STEP #4: Feel more safe in the world:) Here’s a Youtube video that Facebook created which outlines the new security features: About the Author.
iPhone Hacks - Your Guide for Jailbreaking iPhone 4, iPhone 3gs and iPhone 3g, Jailbreak, Unlock. New Android App Makes for Easy Takeout & Delivery Anytime, Anywhere. We've just discovered a new Android app that makes ordering takeout or delivery food as easy as a few touchscreen taps — no matter what time of day or where you are. The name of the app is SeamlessWeb; it's live now in the Android Market; and it's absolutely free.
Once SeamlessWeb is installed, it will use your phone's GPS to find nearby restaurants that are open and that can handle requests for takeout and delivery. It'll let you know star ratings for the restaurants in your area, the minimum order amounts for delivery and approximate wait times for each restaurant. You can peruse the menu, adding items to your bag as you go. You can even add special instructions for each item, if you need to. If you're a creature of habit, you can re-order meals you've ordered in the past with a few taps. Being equal parts hungry and curious, we gave the app a try from the comfort of our couch. The app is currently available in 14 cities with more coming soon. T-Mobile smartphone users face unilateral 500MB data cap - and bizarre explanation | Technology.
You may have noticed our link in the Tuesday's Newsbucket to ZDNet's piece on T-Mobile cutting its data allowance - for every T-Mobile smartphone customer, unilaterally (any lawyers with smartphones on T-Mobile? Care to examine the Ts&Cs?) , to 500MB per month. For most people that will be enough. But regardless of that, the posting that introduced it suggests that T-Mobile is actively trying to foment confusion about the difference between the web, internet, browsing, video and, well, data. Here's the post (which doesn't have comments open - how odd), with our comments. "Changes to Mobile Internet fair use policies" Hmm, we're already not liking this one. "T-Mobile is the only operator to give customers the Mobile Internet for a fixed price. The mobile internet? "Therefore you'll never need to worry about how many emails you've sent, how long you've been online or the data/GBs" "the data/GBs" - oh, not the data per gigabytes, but the "data, or gigabytes".
Pardon? "So what's changing? Welcome to StickerScan.com - Premium QR Code Marketing Tools & Technologies.