Indoor positioning systems have long been a holy grail for malls and big-box retailers where labyrinthine aisles and massive floorplans that rival small towns often leave customers begging for mercy, but the obstacles to deploying them are many: you’ve got to create detailed maps for every facility where you want it to work, and you need some sort of system for locating users with a reasonable level of precision since GPS is out of the picture. Start-up Point Inside has been hard at work on IPS for some time now, figuring that modern stores and malls teeming with WiFi access points and reliable AGPS are good enough to make it work, and now they’ve hooked up with Midwestern superstore chain Meijer to trial a system in four Michigan locations that will let users locate “more than” 100,000 items in store along with facilities like bathrooms and customer service
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Meijer deploys indoor positioning trial, helps you find the Morton Salt faster
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Just one year after launching a retail portal for Xbox Live content, Amazon is “no longer selling Xbox Live Arcade game codes,” according to a statement on the site’s Xbox Live page .
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Amazon no longer selling Xbox Live Arcade games, as GameStop begins to offer them
It didn’t take long for Visa to react to the three-headed beast of AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon entering the mobile payments arena. The world’s foremost payment processing company has just announced that it’s about to start a trial of its contactless payment system in partnership with Bank of America. Kicking off in the New York area this September and lasting through the end of the year, the scheme will most likely involve the MicroSD NFC communicator and In2Pay iPhone case that DeviceFidelity has been developing for Visa.
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Visa gets Bank of America on board for mobile payments trial, starting in New York next month
Think your mobile device couldn’t eat another byte, that it’s stuffed full of storage? Surely it has room for a tiny little thin SSD ?
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Sandisk’s 64GB integrated SSD is no bigger than a wafer-thin mint
It’s not official until Microsoft says it is, but the image above of the rumored Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse was just snagged off a German online store. Amazingly, the mouse arches its back for comfortable mousing before packing flat for easy transport. The mouse features touch-scrolling, a battery indicator, the ability to track on most any surface , and a 2.4GHz nano transceiver that no doubt plugs into your laptop’s USB port.
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Microsoft’s Arc Touch Mouse revealed?
It’s called the G2, it’ll run Android, and it’s T-Mobile’s first phone to ride those wannabe-4G HSPA+ airwaves. Those are the facts we have.
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T-Mobile G2 gets a teaser site, will be network’s first HSPA+ phone
We’ll be honest: we thought SSDs would suck down most of platter-based storage’s milkshake by now — that magnetic disks would follow tapes into obscurity. Alas, SSDs are still niche items, and Toshiba is doing all it can to keep them that way, demonstrating a successful prototype of a new storage technique called bit-pattern recording that currently generates a storage density of 2.5Tb per square inch. That’s about five times more dense than the company’s current offerings, achieved by placing individual bits onto lithographed “islands” of magnetic material.
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Toshiba demonstrates successful BPR HDD, is 2.5Tb per inch a platter’s last stand?
Before pixel-art virtuoso Paul Robertson and chiptune geniuses Ananamanaguchi gave Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game its distinctive style, it wore its influences on its sleeve. In this early pitch video made for Ubisoft (after the break), the game features pretty much direct parodies of Sonic the Hedgehog, Ninja Gaiden and Mega Man 2 , set to chip covers of songs by the White Stripes, Smashing Pumpkins and the Ramones
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Scott Pilgrim pitch video shows an even more retro version of the game
The Robovie R3 is the latest in a distinguished line of humanoid bots developed for the purposes of research, discovery, and (a tiny bit of) geeky fun. Following its predecessor’s footsteps — the R2 secured employment as a guide to lost shoppers — the R3 will be making its mall debut in November of this year, where it’ll assist people by carrying their shopping, providing information about nearby products, and holding their hand as it guides them through the crowds. Intended as a way to get elderly and handicapped people back out into the community, this is part of a viability study for the robot’s usefulness, and if it finds success maybe its anime eyes and dalek form factor will find their way outside Japan as well
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Robovie R3 all set to assist, freak out elderly and handicapped shoppers this November (video)
Filed under: RPGs , Meta (about Joystiq) , MMO It’s patch day again in the World of Warcraft , and that means there’s a whole bunch of upgrades and updates and brand new challenges, quests and things to do in the most successful MMO ever made. Joystiq’s sister site WoW.com has all the patch 3.3 info you’d ever need, from the new Dungeon Finder system to class changes, to all of the various UI tweaks and tips for getting your add-ons ready
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The best of WoW.com: December 1-8, 2009
