The Smile is the world's first smart phone you can wear like a bracelet! Not only that, but it can also read your mood. It will know if you're stressed out or relaxing. It can monitor your diet and your health. It will inform you when you ...
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Google has announced the closure of Google Checkout, the online payment system used by small merchants, with users being given until 20 November to migrate to an alternative. Instead, Google will focus on Google Wallet, "a platform that ...
Preparing its customers to join the emerging‘Internet of things’, IBM has released a new appliance built to manage and route a voluminous amount of machine-to-machine small data messages Using the MQTT (the Message Queuing ...
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The online virtual currency Bitcoin has generated some serious buzz lately, with its value soaring past US$200 for the first time this week. Now a smaller player hopes to emerge as a rival by processing transactions faster and giving its ...
US credit card giant Visa has announced a global alliance with Samsung to let shoppers make payments by waving their smartphones near a special reader. The deal, announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, could significantly ...
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Global financial groups have intensified their war to control the lucrative future of the digital wallet, which will let people use a smartphone to go shopping instead of cash and credit cards. MasterCard, Visa and online payments service ...
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GLOBAL financial groups are competing to control the lucrative future of "mobile money", which will enable people to use a smartphone to go shopping instead of cash and credit cards. MasterCard, Visa and online payments service PayPal ...
Using a smartphone to pay for purchases in lieu of a physical debit or credit card may become a US$1 trillion business by 2015, and some ancillary technologies for consumer engagement could help to make that happen. Shopping for products ...
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British born investor Ben Horowitz, co-founder of investors Andreessen-Horowitz which has funds of $2.7bn invested, is looking for ‘really bad ideas’. "We invest in college drop-outs with insane ideas going after tiny markets ...
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Research in Motion announced Wednesday that credit card company Visa has approved RIM's Visa for use in mobile payments made with smartphones or tablets that use a Near Field Communication chip. The system, called Secure Element Manager ...
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Computerworld - Mobile payment technologies are finally vaulting forward in the U.S. after years of slow advances. The biggest move ahead could occur in September, when Apple is widely expected to embrace a mobile payment scheme with its ...
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More that a dozen retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and 7-Eleven have joined forces to form the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a mobile-payments network that will compete with Google and Isis. The retailers claim that they ...
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Businesses in the EU and the wider world are grossly ill-prepared for a potential collapse of the eurozone, wrongly expecting that they will have plenty of time to prepare for the conversion of one or more countries to a new national ...
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Computerworld - ISIS, a consortium of three wireless carriers, is reportedly set to launch its mobile payment pilot test on Aug. 20 in Austin and Salt Lake City. Separately, ISIS competitor Google on Wednesday announced a cloud-based ...
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HTC said Wednesday it will launch a new smartphone with a full-HD 5-inch screen in the Japanese market from December. The screen, with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, at 440 pixels per inch (ppi), is the main attraction of the HTC J ...
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