MasterCard has launched its MoneySend service on the BlackBerry, taking aim at PayPal in the growing mobile payment business. MoneySend is a virtual prepaid credit card that customers can link with existing bank accounts and credit cards to send and receive personal payments on the BlackBerry.

Placing long distance phone calls isn’t very simple. This can be a time-consuming operation. Nonetheless, a trouble-free method for saving time while generating phone calls can be to make use of the speed dial feature from your prepaid calling card. Speed dialing is a relatively easy procedure and even building your ‘Speed Dial’ list can be rather simple. You can easily put together a list of a large number of names of families and also friends you call up on a regular basis. Firstly you ought to type in the names plus phone numbers of your own connections and after that you are able to save these simply by pushing the save button. Afterward when placing the call, you just need to type in…

The tech industry has pretty much determined that mobile is the future of the Internet. Maybe not always on your cell phone, but the ability to get online wherever you are with a device. This changes our relationships with connectivity by enabling us to combine our virtual lives with our offline personas. For many of us this is cool, and a wee bit scary, but I’m hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t believe that this is the next big thing. There’s still a huge reluctance on the part of many communities to allow some of the infrastructure to helps deliver the mobile web: the towers. It can take years to approve new towers, or even add more equipment to existing towers. In November, the …

As Twitter focuses on building up its own services and applications, financing for startups built on the microblogging service has dropped sharply, according to recent analysis by CB Insights . The firm, which tracks private market investments, says funding for pure-play Twitter apps and services has fallen by more than 50 percent over the past year, and a recent analysis by Twitter itself showed that the vast majority of the ecosystem…

Author Nicholas Carr wrote a controversial post recently about the use of hyperlinks in online content, in which he argued that links were a distraction for readers , and were likely to lead to less comprehension rather than more. This idea was an offshoot of Carr’s latest book, The Shallows, which makes the claim that the Internet — and digital media in general — are making society dumber rather than smarter . Now Scott Rosenberg, one of the founders of the online magazine Salon and of a new media-accuracy startup called MediaBugs, has written an admirable series of posts defending the link as the heart and soul of the web . In his original post, Carr described links as “conveniences,” but said they also functioned as a distraction …

Research in Motion, the Waterloo, Canada-based company behind the iconic Blackberry smartphones is rumored to have snapped up DataViz , a Milford, CT.-based company that is well known for making mobile productivity suite, Documents to Go. The CT-based company makes this extremely popular app for all major smartphone platforms including iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Nokia’s Maemo. It also supports the iPad. DataViz recently suspended work on the WebOS version of the suite. The rumors of the acquisition first appeared on the Crackberry Blog which apparently has received confirmation from multiple sources for the deal. RIM is said to have paid $50 million. In addition, they point out on LinkedIn many of the DataViz employees are now listing RIM as…

Last week, at its usual September iPod product refresh, Apple rolled out Ping, and critics simultaneously questioned whether or not Apple could build a social network to challenge the likes of Facebook and Twitter. As I discuss in my weekly column at GigaOM Pro, the real question isn’t if Apple can , but rather, if the folks in Cupertino even want to pursue such a move. As it stands now, Ping is explicitly about selling music on the iTunes store. Om thinks it foreshadows the  future of social commerce , but where else could Apple take Ping, and how far? Some analysts describe social networking as  air , but perhaps the more relevant metaphor is electricity. In this view, companies and sites tap into social networking to create applications or …

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Just in time for the Labor Day weekend, we bring you the second installment of our web TV series BBQ&A . In this episode, oDesk CEO Gary Swart turned up the heat with a homemade feast fit for a Silicon Valley king, featuring a super-easy cedar plank salmon, teriyaki tri-tip, corn salad, Caprese salad, and grilled asparagus. (We ran out of time before he could grill up his nectarines to put on the homemade marscapone ice cream). (Video editor’s note: It was a scorching hot, cloudless day in Palo Alto, Calif. and this supernova-like illumination created harsh shadows, made us squint to save our eyes, and caused some serious sweat.) Expert and noob grillers …

Nova Spivack’s recent GigaOM post, “ Trailmeme and the Web of Intent ,” highlights the growing content clutter problem on the web, but frames the solution set too narrowly and too far into the future. In fact, more robust content filtering tools and the Web of Intent will arrive sooner than you think, based on the implicit messages in users’ actions. Solutions like Trailmeme that help consumers more easily save, tag, annotate , inter-link and share related content as a way to better filter the web sound promising, but we shouldn’t put all the pressure on crowd-sourcing solutions that require consumers to clean up the entire stream. The Web of…

The collective groans of supervisors all over the world was heard this week as the phenomenally successful Angry Birds game was released for the Android platform. Angry Birds is the addictive game that’s been setting the iPhone (and iPad) world on fire. The Android release is an early beta, available in the Android Market as a free download. Rovio Mobile, producer of the game, had intended to conduct a closed Android beta, but pleas from prospective players convinced Rovio to release it publicly. Angry Birds has been wildly successful for a mobile platform game, with 7 …

Apple iTunes’ Ping launched Wednesday night to a flurry of chatter  lauding it as a MySpace killer , only to land Thursday morning amid criticism and a  nasty break-up with Facebook . Now that the dust is beginning to settle, let’s take a look at what Ping is, as well as what it could have been. Om claimed that Ping is the future of social commerce , but its sole focus on purchases and its presence behind a walled garden may hinder that bright future. Here are the four main issues Apple has to work on quickly for Ping to be successful: Ping’s main method of social interaction is based only on new purchases. In order to populate a social network of any kind, you need to give users the ability to share whatever it is…

As expected , Facebook has started integrating social activity from around the web into the search results on its site, by showing how many people “liked” or shared a specific news story or blog post, as shown in the screenshot below (first noticed by All Facebook ). The results are powered by the social-graph plugins embedded in hundreds of thousands of websites, which Facebook launched earlier this year at its F8 conference. The new feature is the latest step in rolling out the network’s social-search engine — which could become a competitive threat for Google and

While on-demand services like YouTube and Hulu get all the press, live streaming services have posted dramatic increases in viewer engagement over the last year. Time spent watching live online video increased nearly 650 percent in that time, to 1.4 billion minutes a month.

Updated: As a number of readers have pointed out, I read this chart incorrectly. I read absolute numbers of visitors into it, whereas the chart is actually meant to show percentages of traffic. I’ve tried to correct my mis-impressions below — although the chart does still show that Stumbleupon drives a lot of traffic, so my conclusions are not completely wrong. In a chart of the traffic it gets from a variety of social networks (posted by All Things Digital ), Gawker Media …