Visa moves to develop next generation commerce with Visa Checkout

Visa announced the launch of Visa Checkout, a quick and easy payment service they are calling the 'future of commerce', that enables consumers throughout the United States, Canada and Australia to pay for goods online, on any device, in just a few clicks.

Visa's new One Market office and innovation center, which was unveiled today, will be home to more than 500 Visa employees, including technology experts and developers whose mission will be to ensure that every Internet connected device, appliance or wearable computer, can become a secure place for commerce.

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Contest: Win 4 Honda Indy tickets for this Saturday and Sunday

You can't beat a day at the races, that's why Wind Mobile and Canadian Reviewer are giving four tickets for this Saturday and Sunday's Honda Indy Toront for the #RacetoWIND promo. Up for grabs are  2 General Admission for Saturday to go to one lucky winner and 2 General Admission for Sunday w/ Paddock Passes to go to another lucky winner. 

How to enter: Follow us on Twitter and retweet this contest, "I'd love to win tickets to Honda Indy from @Creviewer and @WINDmobile for#RacetoWIND!" Add which day (Saturday or Sunday) you'd like to go and we'll select two winners by 11:00 pm tomorrow.  Info on tickets can be found here. Good luck to all who join!

Review: LG G3

A fast-as-lightning processor mated with a stunning qHD display makes the LG G3 a superb choice for your next smartphone as long as its size and battery life aren’t show-stoppers for you.

By Simon Cohen

These days, if you want to win the hearts and minds of smartphone shoppers, you need an edge; something that sets you apart from the pack – especially if you’re going to use Android as your OS.

Samsung has done this with its Galaxy S5 – it boasts a fingerprint sensor, water-resistance and built-in heart-rate monitor. So it was a forgone conclusion that when LG launched its latest flagship, the G3, it too would trot out something the other ‘droids didn’t have.

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Adobe and Google collaborate on open source font for Japanese, Chinese and Korean

Adobe just announced the release of Source Han Sans, an open source typeface supporting Japanese, Chinese and Korean, as well as Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets.

It was developed in collaboration with Adobe’s key partner Google and contracted foundry partners across East Asia (Changzhou SinoType, Iwata Corporation, and Sandoll Communication). Source Han Sans marks a record-breaking typeface in terms of size, scale, complexity and support for Japanese, Chinese and Korean all within the same font family. It provides designers and developers creating content for international audiences one uniform font to use in print and Web files no matter the language - eliminating the need to license multiple fonts.

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