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Going to the movies is an expensive pastime, especially if you're a frequent visitorMoviePass, a service that launched late last year, is trying to ease the financial burden for film buffs by charging them a single monthly fee — typically around $30 — to watch up to one 2D movie in theater per day Still in beta, the service has had a wait list ranging from a few days to a few weeks since its launch last year. On Monday, MoviePass temporarily cleared the list, opening it up to those who signed up (it declined to share its current user numbers). What's more, to celebrate "summer blockbuster season," MoviePass is letting everyone who signs up between now and Friday to bypass the wait list entirely Read more...More about App, Moviepass, Film, Apps Software, and Lifestyle

Brightpearl Raises $8 Million Series B For Its Cloud Software To Help Retailers Manage Sales Across Mul... by @sohear

In what is effectively a follow-on round, Brightpearl, the cloud software provider for multichannel retailers, has raised $8 million in Series B funding from previous backers Eden Ventures and Notion Capital. Both Eden and Notion seed-backed the UK company, before adding a further $5 million Series A in May 2011. This brings the total raised by Brightpearl to $14.5 million. Brightpearl provides cloud software for small to medium-sized retailers, which integrates orders, inventory and customer data across multiple retail channels — both online and bricks ‘n’ mortar. The problem that it’s set out to solve is that whilst it’s arguably easier than ever to start an e-commerce business, even a blended off-line/online one, there’s fragmentation in terms of the number of channels that you’re expected to sell into. The headache here occurs when trying to manage stock/inventory across channels, and dealing with things like double-selling, support, delivery, and tracking customers from one channel to another. Brightpearl’s cloud offering aims to take care of this heavy lifting, helping businesses scale and manage a multitude of SKUs across all of their online and brick-and mortar channels, with a “unified system for inventory, order, and customer data.” The customer data element is particularly noteworthy. To that end, earlier this month, Brightpearl announced further multichannel support by adding integrations with Amazon, Bigcommerce and Shopify, claiming to make it even easier for retailers to accelerate growth through “more effective merchandizing, better customer data and fully synchronized inventory management”. Since 2011, the company says that more than $600 million of gross merchandise value has been traded on its Brightpearl Commerce Acceleration Platform.

Amazon Web Services has finally received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, which the company said will lower the cost of implementing its cloud services among government organizations and agencies in the U.S.FedRAMP is a mandatory government-wide program that standardizes security assessment, authorization, and monitoring for cloud products and services. As part of the program, Amazon has been granted two so-called Agency Authorities to Operate (ATOs) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it said.One ATO covers the GovCloud "region" of AWS infrastructure, and the other the U.S. East/West regions of its cloud infrastructure. Within those boundaries, agencies can use Amazon's EC2 compute cloud, Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Block Store (EBS). They can also use its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), which allows IT staff to create an isolated section of Amazon's cloud where they can launch resources in a virtual network defined by themselves, including public subnets, private subnets, and hardware VPN access.In a recent interview, Stephen Schmidt, chief information security officer at Amazon Web Services, talked about how he looked forward to getting a FedRAMP certification.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Unity Game Engine Goes Free For iOS And Android Developers by @drizzled

Recent upgrades to the once-innovative service notwithstanding, the photo-sharing site is a lesson in what not to do. By Verne Kopytoff FORTUNE -- Flickr, the online photo sharing service, seemed to be heading for the big-time when Yahoo acquired it eight years ago. The site already had a lot going for it: legions of devoted users, a team of respected founders, and a head start on the social media phenomenon. But MORE

Users of the Android platform can find it easier to change the stock applications that come with any device for a service that they may prefer, and this can be for things such as keyboards or web browsers among others. Today we can tell you that the popular Opera for Android is now available via Google Play for all users running Android 2.3 Gingerbread or later. The application has been available in beta for a while now but a new stable version has been released onto Google Play and gives Android users something else to try besides Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. With all web browsers it can often come down to personal choice but the Opera offering uses the same software engine as Chrome and Apple’s Safari browsers, and the developers have redesigned the UI of Opera along with providing a lighter colour scheme. The popular Speed Dial feature has been given a face lift with users now being able to rearrange the order of them, and it also doubles as a bookmark manager. There is an Off-Road feature that provides data compression so users don’t use so much data traffic while using the application. Opera has already gained mainly positive reviews from users although there are some complaints about not being able to alter the font size and no exit button being available. To try out Opera yourself head over to Google Play and download it for free. What is your favourite web browser?

We have said previously that the new Samsung Galaxy S4 Active smartphone is trying to be like the Sony Xperia Z because it also likes water etc, but there is more to this handset and now we can see it playing nicely in a video. There is no official news on the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active as of yet, but we said it will possibly come featuring a 1.9GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor, 2-megapixel camera on the front, 13-megapixel camera on the rear and 2GB of RAM, but this seems to be different now. It really does look like the Active will come with quad-core 1.9GHz processor with Adreno 320 GPU, the video below does not show you a lot but it gives you an idea of what to expect in terms of design etc. The model in the video looks nice, even though AnTuTu’s System says it will have a dual-core Snapdragon Plus chipset, the description under the MobileTechReview video states the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active will come with different specs like first thought. The new S4 Active GT-19295 specs under the video states dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU, dust-proof and waterproof design and an 8MP rear camera, and it seems the other specifications are the same as the normal Samsung Galaxy S4. We believe that there will be multiple models of the Samsung galaxy S4 Active, expect a launch date around July, which is also the month the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini will make an appearance. Would you consider buying the rugged Samsung Galaxy S4 Active? Please watch the video provided below, enjoy.