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Groupon bolsters its in-store payments business with Gnome, an iPad-based checkout platform

May19
by on May 19, 2014 at 1:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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In an effort to expand beyond simple online deals and discounts, Groupon today unveiled an iPad-based checkout platform called Gnome. The tablet is disguised in a chunky plastic exterior and allows shop owners to identify voucher-toting customers from the moment they walk through the door. Using the Goupon app, users will have their details beamed to the cashier over Bluetooth – they simply have to give their name when they reach the till. Gnome is designed as an “all-in-one cash register,” so businesses will also be able to process credit and debit card payments and, in the future, integrate recognized…

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Telenav switches Scout navigation apps to OpenStreetMap, and rebrands Skobbler 4 months after acquisition

May19
by on May 19, 2014 at 11:58 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Navigation company Telenav has announced that its US-focused Scout app for iPhone is today switching to OpenStreetMap (OSM) from TomTom for all its mapping data. The company says it plans to switch to OSM for the Android incarnation in June, bringing both apps in line with Scout’s companion website, which is already using the crowdsourced mapping service. For the unitiated, OpenStreetMap is a free, editable map of the world created by the online masses (‘Wikipedia for maps’), and is designed to make it easy for developers to integrate into their own applications. It’s a little bit like Google’s own Map…

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Vote on Twitter for the next word to make it into the Collins Dictionary, you adorkable duckface

May19
by on May 19, 2014 at 11:51 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Social Media

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Yep, that’s right, Collins is calling for your votes via Twitter to see which word should make it into the twelfth edition of its dictionary, or as it called it, the Twictionary. Among the options are words like ‘adorkable’ (“dorky in an adorable way”), ‘felfie’ (a farmer selfie), ‘duckface’ (the traditional pouting often seen in selfies) and ‘fatberg‘, which is used to describe “a large mass of solid waste, grease, etc clogging a sewage system”. Eww. Also on the list are ‘fracktivist’ (someone who protests against fracking), gaybourhood (a gay-friendly neighbourhood), and ‘vaguebooking’, which means to post deliberately vague social…

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Google will remove the Calendar Invitation feature within Gmail in July

May19
by on May 19, 2014 at 10:05 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider, Product Updates

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Google is planning to retire the option which allows users to insert calendar invites directly within emails. Spotted by the Google Operating System fan site, and confirmed by Gmail community managers, the option will be removed in July. As of now, if you choose to insert a calendar invite within an email, you’ll get a message warning you of the changes ahead. While the move is likely to irritate a few people – the feature allowed you to send invites without having to open up Google Calendar itself – it was likely under used by the majority. On top of that, the community…

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

May19
by on May 19, 2014 at 9:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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If you spent this weekend relaxing with friends and family (or climbing a mountain, or windsurfing, or…) there’s a pretty good chance you had other things on your mind than tech news. That’s OK, we understand. Luckily for you though, we were paying attention while you were dozing on the beach. So make a coffee, put up your feet and catch up on all the latest tech news and features you missed over the last two days from The Next Web and beyond. News from The Next Web over the weekend Google Releases Hangouts Extension For Microsoft Outlook WhatsApp Pulled…

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