No Cards, No Cash: No Problem! Get A Google Wallet

First Google was after search engine domination, then world domination, and now? YOUR WALLET! But they’re not going to steal it — trust me, they don’t need the money. They want to replace it.

No cards, no cash: no problem! Get a Google Wallet

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In The Cards: Why Amazon *Has* To Make An Android Device Now

When I first heard that Amazon was going to be making an app store for Android (we broke the news in September of last year), I laughed. Just what Android needs, another app store, I thought. Further, I didn't see what Amazon could bring to the table with such a store that Google themselves couldn't. That was stupid. I was wrong. Now that Amazon's Android Appstore is out there in the wild, and I've had a chance to play with it, I see the brilliance of the maneuver. In many ways, Amazon just came out of nowhere and beat Google at their own game — on their own devices. At the same time, some of the processes involved in Amazon's Appstore are laughable. And they point to a very obvious fact: Amazon needs to build their own Android devices. Pronto.

In The Cards: Why Amazon *Has* To Make An Android Device Now

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Too Many Business Cards? Check Out CardMunch

Business cards are a relic of the analog age. They tend to sit, unused and unloved, in a Rolodex at the back of your desk or in the nether reaches of a wallet or purse.

CardMunch has the perfect solution to bring business cards into the modern world: an iPhone app that scans business cards and automatically adds the resulting contact information to your iPhone contacts list.

The big difference between CardMunch and other scanning apps like Google Googles: CardMunch guarantees 100% accuracy because it doesn't use technology like optical character recognition (OCR) to decode what's on each card. According to CEO Bowei Gai, free services might offer 90% accuracy--but that translates to one wrong digit in a ten-digit phone number, making the service totally useless.

To ensure perfection, CardMunch sends each scanned over the Internet to multiple human beings who read it, key in the information, and send it back to your phone. Turnaround time is usually a couple minutes, although it can take up to 10.

CardMunch charges $0.25 per card for this service, but offers 20 free scans to get you started. The company is also planning a subscription service; interested SAI readers can email beta@cardmunch.com to sign up for beta invites.

The app launched in August, and tomorrow the company launches version 2.0. The most interesting new feature is one-click integration with LinkedIn. Sign in to LinkedIn from the app, and you'll be able to take any scanned contact and send them an invitation to connect on LinkedIn with a single click.

The new version of the app also has full text search of all fields and a "mobile Rolodex" feature that lets you scan through cards, CoverFlow style. The app costs $2.99 and will be available in the App Store tomorrow.

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