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The end of Facebook Places

Facebook have admitted defeat in the location wars and are retiring Facebook Places.

Is it just me or does it feel like they didn’t really give it a proper chance? I’ve only just got used to the ‘new’ iPhone app with Places in the home screen and come to accept the little paper dart (or whatever it’s supposed to be?) popping up each time I use Facebook mobile. [...]

Pizza Hut’s iPhone app to capture 10% of online sales

via AdNews:

Pizza Hut hopes to capture 10% of its total online sales mix with the second version of its iPhone app, released today.

The initial app has been downloaded 257,000 times since its release and Pizza Hut predicts the latest version will garner a further 20,000 downloads over the next four weeks.

Pizza Hut wants to increase its online sales to 40% and hopes the roll out of the revised app will help them achieve that.

Minority Report: expect commercial spatial interfaces in 3 years
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Oblong Industries, led by Chief Scientist John Underkoffler (the guy who advised the filmmakers behind Steve Spielberg’s 2002 film Minority Report) have unveiled a Spatial Operating Environment (SOE) called Mezzanine. Think of it as the first commercially viable step towards the gesture controlled interface made famous by Tom Cruise in the movie. Oblong have been [...]

MightyText – calls & texts from Android to PC in real time

via Engadget: Have you ever missed an extremely important phone call or text because you were too busy finishing those TPS reports on your personal computing machine? There’s a Chrome add-on for that. We went hands-on with a new extension (and accompanying Android app) called MightyText, a free notification service launched today that syncs your phone’s texts [...]