Although the mobile payment is still in early stages of development, but mobile devices, especially Apple products, have become the mainstream choice of U.S. retailers.

Currently, the all-american retailers are deploying the mobile payment instrument. According to the data released by the U.S. retailers Low's last week, the company has deployed 42,000 handheld devices in the United States and Canada. Home Depot, Nordstrom and Urban Outfitters and other companies had also announced a similar number. Something about iPad: copy dvd to ipad

Although some retailers did not disclose the mobile payment devices they mainly deploy at present, but for the most part, these retailers use Apple products, including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. And while these devices are often used to accept payment, but many salespeople also use these devices find answers for questions, and understand the product inventory and so on.

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Mobile Software Corporation Global Bay said the retailers who use Apple products for mobile payment are becoming more and more. The company said on Tuesday that it will help retailers Pacific Sunware deploy iPad in 300 stores. The company also plans to deploy such payment equipments in 500 to 600 stores next year.

Bhanote said, Global Bay deployed iPad for the first time in November last year, it was in a mall named Things Remembered, the iPad is used as a self-service equipment. He said, iPad can make the user experience smoother.

Even though it is still in its early stages, but there is evidence that handheld devices will continue to develop, from a equipment used to help people simplify the process to a tool for promoting sales. Bhanote said the next stage of mobile payment services is to introduce business elements.

Bhanote refused to disclose how many iPads the company deployed in the past year. However, he said, the retailers have already seen the results. One retailer reported that the average order price rose 12% after using Apple devices to serve customers.

Australian primary school's grade 1 and 2 students will get iPad to enhance their reading and mathematics learning. Western Australian Governor Barnett (Colin Barnett) and Education Minister Constable (Liz Constable) today went to West Beechboro Primary School at the north-west of Perth to see how pupils learn to use this high-tech touch product iPad, and formally announced the Western Australia's early education iPad incentive plan. iPad related: quicktime for ipad. The program which cost millions of dollars includes providing nearly 900 units of iPad for 17 primary schools in Western Australia.

Constable said, iPad application program can make students feel that math and reading becomes alive. The state's Settlers primary school's iPad trial showed that, the boys' reading and numeracy skills have been improved by using the iPad.

She believes that high-tech can attract the little boy's interest in learning, and the Tablet PC's touch feel and interaction let the students can learn and practice the multiplication tables, recognize graphics, count the money and other math skills; in reading, iPad has applications to let the students become more active in learning pronunciation, spelling and reading. Tip for iPad lovers: copy dvd to ipad.

Today, Apple released OS X Mountain Lion. In the history of Mac OS X, it is the first time for Apple to show an operating system to reporters first, the time the developers get the new system will be a week later than the media. Normally, Apple will release the new system to developers first, and the developers will keep the new system secret.

For many years, compared to Microsoft's Windows operating system, Apple's Mac OS X has been a niche system, which makes Apple had to implement strict confidentiality measures on the systems which have not been released, so that the competitors will not develop the same functionality in the short term. Mac related: dvd to avi mac. During the last five years, Apple released an iOS system every year, and Mac has been ahead of the traditional PC for several quarters in PC sales, so currently Apple has changed the product release policy.

The Mac OS X Lion released last year was first announced in October 2010, but the media did not get this system first. For Mountain Lion, Apple has changed the way of marketing the operating system, and provided the operating system to the media first.

Apple's new public relations policy matches with Mac OS X's release plan, Apple has announced to make a major update to the operating system each year from now on. What's hot: copy dvd to dvd. The official version of Mountain Lion will be on sale in the summer, and it may be introduced on the WWDC 2012.

Last week, Apple released OS X 10.8 version's new system Mountain Lion for developers, At this point, developers have already installed the system for a week, how do they think about the performance of the Mountain Lion? Compared to the old system, has Mountain Lion been greatly improved? Mac related: copy dvd on mac. Let's see how the developers assess Apple's new system after running the Mountain Lion for one week:

Even for the MacBook three years ago, it also has a surprising effect when running Mountain Lion. First of all, during one-week use, I rarely encountered the system crash; Secondly, so far i have not encountered any major problems.

Of course, Mountain Lion has compatibility issues with some software, such as Google's Chrome browser, but on the native software of the Mountain Lion, the running speed still satisfied me. Mac tip: rip dvd to mac. I believe in the future the software compatibility issues will be gradually resolved. The new features Apple added in Mountain Lion and native software also have the desired effect.

In general, there is no slack phenomenon when Mountain Lion running in my machine and i can feel it is significantly improved compared to the Lion. Although I encountered some problems several times when using me Machine and screen sharing, but it did not have much impact. Mountain Lion is only a test version, I believe Apple will gradually fix these small problems in the next update.

Why developers prefer iOS instead of Android? There are too many reasons which make iOS more attractive, better development tools, users are richer and more willing to pay for the applications. According to the statistics, current total downloads in the App Store has exceeded 25 billion times. Mac tip: copy dvd to mac. Of course, there is even more important reason, consider the following analysis: an important reason, that is, in the Apple ecosystem, the speed iOS users accept the operating system version is faster.

First look at the graph:

What can you see? Obviously, the acceptance rate of iOS is much faster than Android Take a look at this iOS5.x curve, it is almost vertical, while Android's Gingerbread is obviously not as good as the iOS 5.x.

It is difficult for developers to quickly adapt to the latest version of Android's features, because they must ensure that their applications can run on the most widely accepted Android version, even if this version is very old. iOS developers don't have to worry about this. What's hot: dvd ripper for mac.

After one year, iOS maintain safer on compatibility. The operating system's updates bring many valuable things for the developers. For many new applications, it is also good, because they all look ahead, do not need to like the Android, looking backward.

Such as the iOS 5.0 can run well on all the iPad, developers do not need to support older versions of iOS system, perhaps many people still use the iOS 4.3, but very few, and most people have upgraded, so it is not necessary to develop the the applications which support older versions of iOS. Expand reading: dvd to mkv mac.