| Software Call of Duty 4 Developer Laments PC Game Piracy
The ever increasing system spec of new games and the fact that they run properly only on cutting edge hardware makes users not to buy them after all what's the reason of buying a new game if your PC couldn't run it or it runs it on Low specs looking like crap and running like crap. .
Minding the Gap
Two days before Black Friday, that late-November day when all hell breaks loose in the holiday-obsessed American retail industry, Gap Inc. chief executive Glenn Murphy was calmly walking analysts through the company's good-news, bad-news third quarter. Murphy, a veteran Canadian merchant, was recruited last summer by the struggling San Francisco-based retail giant, and this session marked his first full reporting period as the new boss. Though he hails from the considerably less stampede-prone world of big-box pharmacies—Murphy had been the CEO of Shoppers Drug Mart since 2001, presiding over a spectacularly successful run—he gamely talked about 5 a.m. store openings as if they were old hat. Murphy let on that he planned to drop by an Orlando store for a midnight madness event.
New mobile payment service eschews cash and checks for phones
Mpayy Inc., an online and mobile payment processing company, will launch tomorrow a service that enables merchants and shoppers to conduct retail transactions using mobile phones and online payment accounts. Shoppers can use the Mpayy service with roving salespersons or on retail web sites. Merchants set up accounts on Mpayy.com to establish a mobile payment system. Mobile merchantsMpayy is not yet targeting bricks-and-mortar retailerscan access reports on sales, send funds to desired banks, manage refunds and perform other tasks through a web-enabled administrative application. Shoppers set up accounts on the Mpayy site, entering their mobile phone number, account nickname, and checking account information. To conduct a transaction with a roving merchantan Avon lady, for examplea shopper logs in to Mpayys mobile web site and enters the merchants mobile phone number or nickname, enters the amount of the purchase, and submits the information, which brings up a transaction confirmation page with a Pay button to complete the purchase.
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