Gadgetophilia (Gadgets) – Newsletter for January 27, 2011

Soon, you could ’swipe’ your iPhone instead of a credit card!

LONDON – There’s plenty you can do with them – play music, send pictures and what not – but soon, you could be using your iPhones for shopping.

Barclaycard and the UK’s biggest mobile phone network, Everything Everywhere, which includes Orange and T-mobile, have signed a partnership to bring the system to 40,000 tills.

“This is the …. Original article  : Soon, you could ’swipe’ your iPhone instead of a credit card!.

US soldier develops Taliban-tracking iPhone application

KABUL – An US soldier has contributed 26,000 dollars from his own pocket to develop an iPhone application that tracks down the Taliban.

The New York Post quoted Captain Jonathan J. Springer, an US fire support officer stationed in Afghanistan, as saying that most soldiers use … Original source on Gaea Times at : US soldier develops Taliban-tracking iPhone application.