Remains of the Day: Pay With Your iPhone Edition [For What It's Worth]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5541988/remains-of-the-day-pay-with-your-iphone-edition

Visa may soon let you pay the bill using your iPhone, Google buys another big VoIP company, and Kindle will make its way to Android this summer.

Photo from MobileCrunch.

• iPhone mobile payments trial to begin soon
  Visa will begin testing its iPhone payment system soon, which will allow users to pay through their iPhone via a special case. [Macworld, MobileCrunch]
• Kindle For Android Hits This Summer—And You Can Buy Books In It
  Amazon's Kindle app is coming to Android this summer. Although there's no word on exactly when it will be released, the app will also let you buy books through it. [TechCrunch]
• Spotify Halves Subscription Cost As Competitors Gather
  Spotify is reducing the price of its subscriptions by offering two new options, in an attempt to draw more paying customers. [PaidContent]
• Finally, a Perfect Food and Wine Pairing System
  The best way to pair food with the perfect wine is simpler than you'd probably guess. [Cork'd]
• Google buys VOIP engine behind Yahoo, AOL, WebEx, Lotus conferencing
  Google is acquiring Global IP Solutions Holding, a VoIP company, for $68.2 million. Global IP Solutions Holding is responsible for many instant messaging systems, including Yahoo, AOL, WebEx, and more. [ZDNet]
• Questions About Cellphones and Brain Tumors
  A long-awaited study states that there is no link between brain tumors and cellphone use. Still, participants who used cellphones heavily had a 40 percent higher risk for a certain type of brain tumor. [NYT]