By: Chris Crum Apparently Facebook is not content with only taking over the web, but wants to get some penetration into the physical world as well. Taking a cue from another dominant company, Google, Facebook is now  giving brick and mortar businesses decals  to put in their windows. While Facebook tells WebProNews the decals are currently only a test with a small number of businesses, I would expect this to be expanded in the future. Increasing Competition with Google Google has been  …

Some news from PayPal that slipped fairly under the radar this week is that the company opened its  Mobile Payments Library  to developers. A representative for PayPal tells WebProNews it will give developers an "easy way to get payments from within their apps."  The library is an element of PayPal's PayPal X Payments Platform,  announced last year . "The Mobile Payments Library enables app developers to accept in-app purchases directly via PayPal; so developers don't …

By: Chris Crum Apparently Facebook is not content with only taking over the web, but wants to get some penetration into the physical world as well. Taking a cue from another dominant company, Google, Facebook is now  giving brick and mortar businesses decals to put in their windows. While Facebook tells WebProNews the decals are currently only a test with a small number of businesses, I would expect this to be expanded in the future.  Increasing Competition with Google   Google has …

By:  Enzo F. Cesario Every new technology adopted widely by society brings about a number of new opportunities. The movable type printing press created affordable print information, the telephone and radio created the concept of instantaneous communication over great distances. Today, the Internet has unified both of these concepts into the information explosion that is the digital age. Consider this article alone - a mere forty years ago printing even fifty copies of each page would cost either a …

By: Chris Crum As we  reported last week , some significant news was announced regarding the open web, and the direction social networking is headed in.  Cliqset  and Status.net  announced that for the first time ever, the users of two independent, public web entities are able to communicate with each other, without being on the same service  as the person they are communicating with. These two services accomplished this using the Salmon protocol, a technology that's already on …