A Checkpoints user could score points by buying school supplies at an office goods store, clothing at a mass-market retailer and a DVD player at an electronics store, all in the span of a few hours, says DiPaola.
CheckPoint offers users of Intuit QuickBooks the ability to make online payments for $9.95 a month (for 20 bills per month and $5.95 for each additional set of 10 bills).
Phil Robilotto, chief of department for the Suffolk County Police, said the law would be enforced "upon observation," not by setting up checkpoints to catch users.
Those who are caught with cannabis will swap a conviction for a Checkpoint contract where users will work with Durham Constabulary to tackle their drug habit.
On 2 April the company announced a new project - Checkpoint - that allows users to send in suspicious messages in English and four Indian languages to a local media start-up Proto for verification.
Photo of Denver International Airport security checkpoint by Flickr user dan paluska.
Despite not being available for OS3 users until recently, CheckPoints is currently the fastest growing mobile shopping application (in the same space as Shopkick and Barcode Hero) on the iPhone, amassing its first 100K users in one month and its last 100K users in the past two weeks.
The Internet fought back, with Facebook and Twitter users calling out checkpoint locations.
And when it comes to actual usage, CheckPoints is reporting thousands of user scans per day in stores all across the U.S. CheckPoints faces competition from Shopkick and Barcode Hero.
