eBay’s PayPal planning Android integration

eBay’s PayPal planning Android integrationPayPal, the payment system used by eBay, is in talks with Google.

PayPal, the online payment system used by eBay for ordering a parcel delivery, is in talks to integrate the system with Google’s Android smartphone technology.

The system would be incorporated into the Android operating platform, which is used in most smartphones except for Apple’s iPhone, to allow users pay directly for apps and downloads.

It is thought it may work in the same way in which Apple uses iTunes, by storing card details to speed up the payment process.

Currently Android-run smartphones use Google Checkout, which operates in a similar way.

PayPal is owned by eBay, which has itself been entering the smartphone fray with a range of its own apps, including an app specifically for Android that was recently made available in the UK, Australia and Canada.

The online auction site also recently launched the eBay Fashion app for Apple iPhones that allows users to virtually try on clothes that are listed on the site.

Posted by Sarah Gower in: news.parcel2go.com/ParcelDeliveryNews/ebays-paypal-planning-android-integration-800025663.aspx

Fun (a programming language for the realtime web)

What if you could build realtime web apps with the same ease as you build static web pages in PHP today? Without long polling, event handling and state synchronization, the engineering complexity of realtime web applications would drop by an order of magnitude. There would be a fundamental shift in the way we build the realtime web. This is the future of Fun.
What is Fun?

To better understand what Fun is, let’s first look at what it’s not. Fun is not PHP. However, Fun and PHP have something in common: they use templates and logic to render data into HTML, or more generally speaking they map state to UI.

A significant subset of Fun already parses and compiles correctly, and fast progress is been made in implementing the remaining features. At this point the author (marcus west) can safely say that Fun is a viable project and that you will be able to use it to build realtime web application by the end of the year.

Read more about FUN: marcuswest.in/read/fun-intro/