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target="_blank" href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http://mashable.com/2010/10/26/paul-the-octopus-dies/&service=bit.ly"> target="_blank" class='feedflare' href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http://mashable.com/2010/10/26/paul-the-octopus-dies/&title=World Cup-Predicting “Paul the Octopus” Dies&srcTitle=Mashable&srcUrl=http://mashable.com"> target="_blank" share_url="http://mashable.com/2010/10/26/paul-the-octopus-dies/" type="box_count" name="fb_share" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://mashable.com/2010/10/26/paul-the-octopus-dies/&src=sp" style="text-decoration: none;"> href="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis/login?url=http://mashable.com/2010/10/26/paul-the-octopus-dies/&title=World Cup-Predicting “Paul the Octopus” Dies&related=true&style=true">The octopus that accurately predicted the outcomes of eight href="http://mashable.com/tag/world-cup">World Cup matches this year died peacefully on Tuesday in Sea Life Center aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany. The staff members responsible for his care say they’re “devastated” and are considering…

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Cool as it may be, laser-engraved iPads come with certain caveats. The…

The Android-powered CherryPad was supposed to amaze us all with its amazing features and low, low price of $188. That said, folks who ordered a CherryPad probably haven’t seen it yet even though news of the device first appeared in September and most CherryPads should have shipped already. One reader, WCS, wrote us saying that he expected his pad to ship on October 15. That date rolled by and on October 20 he received a “tracking number” that tracks no existing package in the UPS, Fedex, DHL, or USPS databases. And then he waited.

And waited.

And waited.

He writes:

The Cherrypal “Support” forum (if you can call it that: replies to questions are not permitted, except by the Administrator, and it appears to actually be a polling platform) is increasingly showing posts from people who have received neither their Cherrypad nor their tracking number. In response, the Administrator claims the delay was caused by a typhoon in the Philippines and that everything is fine and users in California and Italy have received their units. Oh, and the “forum” cleverly substitutes the word “issue” when one types “scam”.

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Timed for the (always early) start of holiday season,…

At the company’s annual developer conference today, PayPal debuted its much awaited micropayments product. According to a release issued by the company, the new product is an “in-context, frictionless payment solution that lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks, without ever having to leave a publisher’s game, news, music, video or media site.”

PayPal equates the product as the online equivalent of dropping a quarter into a game machine. Pricing is set at 5 percent plus 5 cents for purchases under $12, which PayPal says is lower than the fees typically charged by payment processors. For example, under standard PayPal pricing, a $1.00 transaction would incur a fee of $0.33. Osama Bedier, VP of platform, mobile and new ventures for PayPal says the product allows developers and merchants to get the revenue right away.With micropayment pricing, it would cost $0.10. While PayPal for digital goods will be available late fall this year, Facebook will soon integrate the new digital goods payment product.

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The device, however, is still,…

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href="http://mashable.com/category/facebook">Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg made a “surprise” appearance on the stage of PayPal’s Innovate Developer Conference today to announce href="http://mashable.com/2010/10/26/paypal-announces-micropayment-system-and-facebook-partnership/">its new integration with PayPal. During her short speech, she dropped a few interesting tidbits of information related…