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As part of its march toward the Xbox One’s arrival, Microsoft has relaunched the Xbox Live Rewards service — and it looked to your coffee shop for inspiration. Just as your local barista punches a tab toward that next free coffee, completing Redmond’s MyPunchcards will net you Rewards Credits. Complete the current cards by Halloween and you’ll get 5,000 credits ($5) for buying five map packs and 3,000 credits ($3) for renting five movies or TV episodes. As before, you’re rewarded for re-upping your Xbox Live Gold subscription and referring friends, and each time you amass 5,000 Credits, they’re converted to your local currency and deposited to your wallet. What’s more, if you’re impatient and have at least 1,000 credits in the bank, you can request an early payout. So much for saving for a rainy day.

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Via: Joystiq

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From the same company that brought you the ThinkPad and the tank of a keyboard known as the Model M, today IBM is demonstrating its latest consumer development: a mobile shopping app. As odd as that sounds, it’s no secret that Big Blue employs some rather brilliant folk, and now the company is looking to combine augmented reality with your everyday shopping habits. While still merely a prototype, the app will allow consumers to pan product aisles with their smartphone camera and view additional details on the screen. As IBM puts it, shoppers may input their own needs and preferences into the app, which can accommodate a wealth of information such as allergens, sugar content and bio-degradable packaging. Through partnerships with retailers, IBM also hopes to integrate promotions and loyalty schemes into the app, which it states will help stores better understand the buying habits of individual consumers. So there you have it, the future of shopping, as brought to you by IBM. As for the full PR, you’ll find it after the break.

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