Mophie

Good news small business owners — Mophie is making it easy for you to make like an Apple store employee and take payments from your handset. A partnership between Mophie and Intuit brings the Complete Credit Card Solution, an app and case combo that lets you take mobile credit card payments from customers anytime, anywhere.

Mobile payments are taking off, not only in the consumer space, but unhinging from a cash register allows small businesses to make money from festivals, fairs, and expos where they might have been limited to cash payments before. What's so great about this mobile payment set up, you ask? Find out my thoughts after the jump.

I'm so over being on the go and having my iPhone lose its charge — normally the battery life is long enough to last through a day of normal use, but from time to time I find myself in need of a charge. The Mophie Juice Pack Air ($80) is the thinnest rechargeable iPhone case on the market, and is available in four colors. It's a hard, protective case that houses a rechargeable battery to give your iPhone a boost any time the battery gets low. When your phone is in the case, it will automatically use the external battery before its own. Plus, the case also has an LED indicator light to let you know exactly how much power is left.

With just a few clicks, you can already get TV shows on your iPhone through the iTunes store, but it's not live TV. Alternatively, shows can take days to appear on Hulu after they've aired on network television. Thankfully, with the help of Qualcomm's FLO TV division, and a Mophie iPhone case, you'll soon be able to stream live TV through your iPhone.

For about $10 a month, you can subscribe to FLO TV and get access to most major channels like ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and the Food Network, and all you'll need to do is strap on a Mophie case, which not only extends the battery life to your phone, but includes a receiver so you can surf the channels. This would seem pretty appealing to folks on-the-go, since you can watch TV wherever the network covers (currently around 200 million people can access FLO TV). FLO and Mophie will be demoing their service this week at CES, but the service should go live later this year.