http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/1219/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/apple_removes_bitcoin_wallet_apps_monopolize_mobile_payments <p>"When you finally grasp the magnitude of Apple’s play in the payments business, it becomes clear that potential competitors will be shunned from the platform. As Daniel Terdiman suggests in CNET, “New Apple features may leave fresh app roadkill in their wake as Apple is likely to undercut several existing third-party applications.” With the introduction of Passbook, Apple has launched mobile payments on iOS and competing virtual payment systems, including bitcoin, must be terminated."</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/apple_removes_bitcoin_wallet_apps_monopolize_mobile_payments#comments apple bitcoin monopoly New Technology News Article Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:37:29 +0000 scook2083 22654 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/us_postal_service_nears_collapse <p>With the rise of e-mail and the decline of letters, mail volume is falling at a staggering rate, and the postal service's survival plan isn't reassuring. Elsewhere in the world, postal services are grappling with the same dilemma — only most of them, in humbling contrast, are thriving.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/us_postal_service_nears_collapse#comments bankruptcy collapse competition failure Incompetence mail monopoly News Article post office USPS