Calgary's Multiplied Media Corporation announced today that they will be integrating the OpenTable reservation and guest management solution with Multiplied's Poynt Local Search service. North American users of the Poynt service will have access to finding and reserving table availability at over 10,000 restaurants.
"Time-crunched consumers are looking for new and more efficient ways to get the information they need to go about their daily activities," said Andrew Osis, CEO, Multiplied Media. "We're integrating OpenTable's ability to find and confirm restaurant reservations with our ability to distance-sort listings relevant to the user's location, allowing users to find, in real-time, nearby available reservations. This added functionality has been a popular request from existing users of Poynt."
The ability for Poynt users to search for and make reservations complements the existing ability to find and connect with local businesses, retailers and movie theaters. Multiplied anticipates that OpenTable content will be available for Poynt on the BlackBerry in Canada and the United States during Q1 of 2009 with additional platforms being rolled out later in the year.
OpenTable is a leading provider of free, real-time online restaurant reservations for diners and guest management solutions for restaurants. Since its inception in 1998, more than 85 million diners have been seated through OpenTable online reservations; on average, nearly three million diners are seated each month.
The Multiplied Media team believes online media distribution is beginning a long term expansion, as the multi-connected consumer emerges in the... [more]
OpenTable is a leading provider of free, real-time online restaurant reservations for diners and guest management solutions for restaurants. Since... [more]
Craigslist addicts like myself will be interested in Craigsphone, the new iPhone app from Next Mobile Web. Craigsphone offers a clean UI; the ability to post, upload and share location while mobile; a saved viewing history, location-based suggestions, and instant-dial numbers. The Next Mobile Web crew is claiming that there is much more to come. "The internet is raw and beautiful because it is Us," they say, "and no site is more Us than craigslist." While the ability to "see stuff, fun and people nearby" is currently limited to San Francisco and Manhattan, Next Mobile Web says they will "take the best local site in the world and make it truly local." It will be interesting to see exactly where they go with that. This app might end up being the greatest thing since sliced bread for those people who constantly scan the Missed Connections hoping to find themselves described.
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ION Magazine and Tagga have joined hands to provide an interactive text component to their Hip Guide. The Hip Guide is a free guide to ION’s picks of the best retailers, restaurants, bars, salons and services in Vancouver. And, now you have the listing available 24/7 on your cell phone. How? Simply text ‘gethip’ to 82442 and you will receive a sms reply message that includes the listing below along with the company’s address, phone number and web-link.
ION MAGAZINE PRESENTS THE WINTER 08/09 HIP GUIDE
WHERE TO BE, WHERE TO BUY, WHERE TO TEXT
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Portland became the first American city to get Clear-branded WiMAX service on January 6 - Clearwire calls Portland "the fastest unwired city in the West.. Clearwire recently gained control of Sprint's Xohn network to provide Clear-branded WiMAX service. Portland and Baltimore, MD are the only two pure WiMAX networks in the United States so far, with Baltimore still operating under the Xohm name.
"Today is a historic day for the evolution of mobile computing and communications services in Portland, and the U.S.," said Benjamin G. Wolff, Clearwire CEO. "Clearwire is reinventing wireless by delivering an unmatched combination of Internet speed and mobility. We're providing a valuable service designed to improve our customers' productivity and make their lives more enjoyable, wherever they happen to be in our coverage area."
Clearwire announced in early December that they have raised $3.2 billion for a nationwide WiMAX network, from Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, Google, and Bright House Networks. WiMAX offers wireless broadband acess, data and telecommunications services, and portable connecvity. Clearwire had made some enthusiastic plans to upgrade its 46 pre-WiMAX markets in the near future, there has been speculation that upcoming WiMAX deployments might be slowed due to the financial crisis. Clear offers residential users wireless service with no installation, and mobile users only need to plug in a mobile WiMAX-enabled USB modem to their laptop. Many computer companies are announcing embedded WiMAX technology compatible with the Clear network in teh first half of 2009. Sprint is reselling access to its 3G network to Clear, which will allow 4G WiMAX devices to work even where there is no WiMAX.
Grand opening events are happening at Portland's three Clearwire retail stores on Saturday, January 10, with gift certificates and prize draws occuring. The stores are located at: 15th and Broadway, 92nd and Sunnyside (Clackamas Promenade), and Burnside and 23rd Place (Uptown Shopping Center).
Clearwire, (NASDAQ: CLWR), offers a robust suite of advanced high-speed wireless broadband services to consumers and businesses. Clearwire’s open... [more]
Vancouver's Paystone Technologies Corp announced on December 19th that they would be shutting down their online payments system.
Paystone would like to thank all members who have used and supported the Paystone Online Payment System over the past 5 years. Unfortunately, recent legislative and regulatory changes in Canada adversely impact Paystone's on-line business model, rendering continued operation impractical.
Paystone has been kicking around the Vancouver tech scene for years thanks to the deep pockets of Chairman Milton Wong. In an article published in SFU's aq magazine in 2003, Wong refered to his investment as a major financial commitment and to Paystone as a "very speculative, very creative" real time online payment solution company.
A lot has changed in the micropayment space over the past five years - check out this snippet from a Globe & Mail article from November 2003 titled Technology firms jostle for pocket change:
...Vancouver-based Paystone Technologies Corp. makes payments the normal way, one at a time, with money that customers have preloaded into a special account. President Alan Thompson says Paystone is talking to lots of big players-particularly in music and gaming.
Claiming nearly 700 active, though modest, merchant sites, the company has real-life bragging rights. You'll often find it, I discovered, in a face-off with PayPal for the customer's transaction. Paystone has just cut a potentially juicy deal to enter the burgeoning Chinese market, where paper money and coins still rule-and where consumer Internet commerce is just taking off.
There has got to be some ex-Paystone folks out there reading this - any idea why an early leaders like Paystone wasn't able to grab a share of the huge micropayments market?
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