17 Oct 2009
I’m really glad people continue to look at mobile payment solutions — and I’m continually amazed by the iPhone as a platform for pretty much everything.
Along those lines, this month’s Wired (not yet online) has a note from the Publisher about Wired’s partnership with Kooaba, which lets you to take pictures of ads in the magazine with your iPhone/Android phone and then pulls a bunch of info for them.
I snapped a photo of a Tissot touch-enabled watch that retails for a cool $1K — the resulting options screen offers a buy now option, Twitter and Facebook links and more. Here’s a screenshot.
caro:
Interesting how Jack Dorsey’s new venture had been on the Web for months and nobody put two and two together until some Engadget guys very recently. In our take: More details on Square’s business model.
