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February 23, 2012

Prize Monkey: Un-Kiosk Gives Instant Gratification – CES 2012

Jeffrey Powers Special Media Feed CES, consumers, dimeo, instant gratification, ipad, kiosk, mobile device, monkey, rewards, smartphone 0

Prize Monkey is about instant gratification. They call him the Un-Kiosk. The idea works like this: you pass by a monitor, and a monkey is jumping around. You connect on your smartphone and interact with the monkey. After a while, you win a prize. Prize Monkey tries to work with companies that help reach consumers. […]

November 24, 2010

More Facebook Security Woes

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The BBC reports that almost 20% of Facebook feeds serve up malware. The malware is coming from various independently-written apps, not from users home computers. From the article: The majority of infections were associated with apps written by independent developers, which promised enticements and rewards to trick users into installing the malware, BitDefender said. . […]