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Alibaba rolls out Apple Passbook-style feature and voice messages on its Alipay wallet app

Jul21
by on July 21, 2014 at 11:13 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Asia, Product Updates

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is keen on building up its payments service — not only in terms of overseas expansion but also providing its consumers with a robust front-facing mobile app. To aid this, it has just added a series of new features to Alipay Wallet, the e-payment app relaunched last year to handle online-to-offline payments. Announced on its Weibo page, Alipay has introduced a new Apple-style Passbook feature to both the iOS and Android mobile apps. Alipass lets users store and manage all their e-tickets, vouchers and coupons either through partner merchants’ websites or via mobile apps that support Alipay….

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PackPoint’s popular packing list app is now available for iPhone

Jul21
by on July 21, 2014 at 10:57 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Going away on vacation can be a lot of fun, but the choresome process of packing your bags and making sure you have everything you need can sap some of the enthusiasm before you even get going. That’s where PackPoint‘s ‘intelligent’ packing list app comes in, and from today, iPhone owners can use it too. The app already launched for Android devices to some fanfare earlier in the year, but the company has wasted no time in making a version available for Apple’s mobile hardware, which makes sense given the number of people toting iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches. While it will work…

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In China, more people now access the internet from a mobile device than a PC

Jul21
by on July 21, 2014 at 9:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia

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China has been going through an explosive internet adoption period, with mobile playing a key role in getting people online. And now, the latest report published by state-affiliated research organization China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) shows that the percentage of Chinese users accessing the Internet via mobile grew to 83.4 percent as of June 2014, for the first time surpassing the percentage of users who access the internet via PCs (80.9 percent). The figure for mobile internet access is up 2.4 percentage points in just six months from the end of 2013. On the other hand, desktop computer and laptop usage both continued their decline —…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Jul21
by on July 21, 2014 at 9:08 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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In 48 hours, there are 172,800 seconds. If we assume that the average article only take 90 seconds or so to read, that’s enough time to read 1,920 articles, providing you don’t need to eat, sleep or otherwise move. If, on the other hand, you didn’t spend this weekend keeping up with tech news, then you’re in luck; we were paying attention so you didn’t have to. Now it’s your turn though, put on the coffee, set your phone to silent and spend a few minutes catching up on all the tech news and features you missed over the weekend from The Next…

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