Near field communications (NFC) technology has brought a new wave of techniques to the retail industry, enabling bricks and mortar stores to attract and interact with customers in innovative ways. Analysts see these tools as a money maker ...
Tags: NFC, UK, payments, mobile technologies
Mobile payments are expected to be worth $730bn by 2017 with high street purchases driving growth, according to a study from Juniper Research. The report: Mobile Payments for Digital & Physical Goods: Opportunity Analysis 2012-2017 ...
Tags: mobile payments, analysis, shopping, online
As the new chief information officer (CIO) at Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) – the world's largest business travel management company – Kevin O'Connor is looking to bring in a new approach to the company's IT strategy to support ...
Tags: CWT, interview, IT, business travel management
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 ...
Tags: Walmart, Target, MCX, mobile payments network
Free mobile apps pose a serious threat to privacy because of their ability to capture large amounts of user information, a study has revealed. Free mobile applications are 401% more likely to track user location and 314% more likely to ...
Tags: free mobile apps, Juniper Networks, information, applications
Market dominating suppliers have been forced to get onboard with software defined networking (SDN) or face losing their customers as the trend takes off. This was the claim made by Shaun Walsh, vice-president of marketing at Emulex, who ...
Tags: SDN, software, technology shows, Europe conference
The global near-field communications (NFC) retail payments market will reach $180bn (£116bn) by 2017, with one in four shoppers paying in store using the technology, according to a report from Juniper Research. North America, ...
Tags: NFC, smartphone, mobile network operators, mobile handsets
It really was apples-to-apples. The $100 million price differential between the Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco proposals to refresh California State University's 23-campus network that we wrote about earlier this week was based on an identical ...
Tags: Cisco proposals, California State University, network, switches, routers
Juniper Networks has unveiled an update to its vGW Virtual Gateway product line to target service providers looking for better security on a larger scale. The vGW series works at the hypervisor level, putting firewall, antivirus and ...
Tags: Juniper Networks, vGW Virtual Gateway product line, vGW series
Government departments have been given the go-ahead to use iPhones to send and receive sensitive emails, as part of moves to broaden the number of approved public sector mobile devices beyond BlackBerrys. Under new guidelines, civil ...
Tags: iPhone, mobile device, Apple device, BlackBerry
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made it possible to connect to its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) service using static routing, while also allowing enterprises to run SQL Server within the private cloud, the company said on Thursday. Using a ...
Tags: Amazon Web Services, AWS, Virtual Private Cloud, VPC, SQL Server
Juniper Networks this week has rolled out edge routers designed to enable service providers to rapidly deploy new service applications. Juniper's MX2020 and 2010 3D Universal Edge Routers run software called JunosV App Engine that's ...
An application privacy report by Juniper Networks’ Mobile Threat Center (MTC) indicates that permissions and capabilities in apps could expose sensitive and personal data in mobile devices. A wider group of application developers ...
Tags: Juniper, mobile device, personal data, sensitive data, smartphone
HP this week will unveil a software-defined networking portfolio that spans infrastructure, control plane operations and applications in an effort to lead the emerging SDN market. HP will roll out its own SDN controller, a separate ...
Tags: Cisco, highlightedpost, HP, Juniper, SDN
Are the nation's LTE wireless carriers prepared for the video chat data crunch expected to come with the next-generation iPhone and other devices that are expected to launch this fall? The answer: It depends on whom you ask. Both AT&T ...
Tags: LTE wireless, video chat data, facetime, iphone 5