Square is not the only player in the game of turning a smart phone into a credit card reader, because a company known as Mophie is now entering the same game.  Mophie has been in the game of extending the battery life of iPhone, but now Mophie has one more product adding to its inventory.  Credit card reader through iPhone and other smart phones allow people to sell and trade right on the spot.  I predict this trend won’t be as hot as online auction like eBay trend that came before, but it’s a new way and one more way for people to quickly sell things on the spot.  I’m still totally new to this idea, and so please take my opinion with a grain of salt.  What you think about credit card reader from smart phones?

Here comes 2010, and the past 10 years we saw how gadgets exploded.  Most people now have so many gadgets on them that you can say it’s ridiculous.  I think we think of gadgets as fashion!  For an example, my sister bought a Sony W series netbook was not because it was useful, but it was pretty in pink!  She got an iPhone not because she wanted to jailbreak it, but she thought it was pretty.  You got the point!  Gadgets and other electronic toys are useful, but we want them to be more than just useful — fashion is the word.  What will the future be for gadgets?

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An Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, talked about how Amazon was able to survive a bad economy.  The idea was to do a good job in a cumulative basis.  Amazon is proud of its employees who had done exceptionally job in providing fast delivery service, low prices, and other Amazon’s services to the customers from the previous four to five years.  A teacher thinks this is a brilliant truth.  She goes on and explains that as a teacher, she feels like merit pay system that the educational reformers want may not work (i.e., superficial).  Teacher is there to teach, and each teacher is only a single piece of a puzzle that helps churn out good students over the course of several years.  If you don’t know what merit pay is, here is the link to explain what is merit pay.  In my opinion, merit pay is somewhat superficial, but it does have benefits.  It’s like an incentive for better teaching, and maybe merit pay is just one piece of a puzzle in making the whole educational system works better in the long run.