Only a month after it bought mobile commerce firm Magento, eBay has further bolstered its PayPal unit with the purchase of m-payments player Zong for $240m in cash. PayPal is expanding its transactions methods from online to the burgeoning market for mobile payments, and plans to create a full end-to-end […]
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Job Application Advices For your privacy and protection, when applying to a job online please remember the following: (1) Never give your social security number to a prospective employer. (2) Never provide credit card or bank account information, or perform any sort of monetary transaction. (3) By applying to a […]
By Aaron Osteraas 28th Jun 2011 General 0 You may have noticed the updated background on DesignFestival, currently, it is Blind Date Prep by Alan Dowling. Over the next number of weeks we’ll be rotating the background through the most popular entries to further show off the hard work people […]
The TouchPad from HP heads to market on Friday, that’s today. It looks pretty cool, and Jason Snell has an optimistic review at Macworld, with many points to recommend it. WebOS opens the door to Web Standards developers, which may deepen the wealth of apps. HP has built ‘HPplay’, a […]
This is another excerpt from the upcoming book “Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices” by Earle Castledine, Myles Eftos and Max Wheeler. BuildMobile is exclusively publishing a complete chapter from the book, the chapter on Mobile Web Apps, this is the second section on Events. 2. Events For many […]
The tech media has spent the vast majority of the last week focused on Google’s newest product, an ambitious platform called Google+ that the company hopes will break through their dry spell in the social arena and make them competitive. It’s early days — for many people it’s next to […]
In my previous post you saw how to navigate forward to a new page and then back either via the hardware back button or by calling the GoBack method. Quite often you’ll want to pass some data between pages, for example if a user selects a customer from a list […]
RubySource is looking for people to write on all things Ruby. We are particularly keen to cover these topics, but we’re open to any ideas you have. Best Practices. Transitioning from .NET to Ruby. Transitioning from PHP to Ruby. Transitioning from Java to Ruby. Ruby Magic. Ruby on Rails. Haml […]
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