Daniel Austin,Paypal's chief architect,has claimed that big data is a scam"most of the time",stating that relational database tools can almost always solve supposed big data problems. Further reading Oracle announces IaaS ...
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Taiwan's credit-card spending hit NT$1.73 trillion(US$57.66 billion)from last July to this June,based on the statistics compiled by Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission(FSC),which notes Taiwan's credit-card spending reached NT$1.67 ...
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The U.S.Federal Trade Commission has reached proposed settlements with a software vendor and seven rent-to-own stores after the agency accused them of installing spyware on rented computers that captured screenshots of personal ...
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HARRISONBURG,Va.--Long lines formed for days outside of Apple stores in major cities to buy the iPhone 5 today,but smaller crowds also gathered in college towns like Harrisonburg,Va.,where the longest wait was overnight in front of the AT&T ...
WARREN, Mich. -- Art Van Furniture has promoted Ken Bussell to vice president-financial services. In a company memo, the retailer noted the promotion from director to vice president "recognizes the important role that Ken has filled since ...
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The US is collecting huge amounts of data on its citizens, according to former National Security Agency (NSA) official Bill Binney. While at the NSA, Binney led the development of secret software he now believes is being used to carry out ...
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New Jersey,US:The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs(DCA)said on Tuesday that it is suing a group of related furniture companies for alleged multiple violations of the state Consumer Fraud Act. In a civil lawsuit filed in Superior ...
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GoDaddy restored some services on Monday as the company battled online attacks that severely impacted its hosting and domain-name registration operations. "We're still working," the company wrote on Twitter. "Getting closer to normal. ...
The CEO of a small Florida publishing company has suggested that it was the source of a leak of one-million-plus Apple users'personal details,which hacking group Anonymous had attributed to the compromised Dell laptop of FBI agent ...
MasterCard today announced it had signed a five-year deal with Everything Everywhere to develop mobile payment systems. MasterCard had already formed a partnership in 2009 with Orange, when it began work on QuickTap, the first near-field ...
Tags: MasterCard, five-year deal, mobile payment systems, Orange, QuickTap, NFC
IBM's latest mainframe,the zEnterprise EC12,is big on data analytics and hybrid clouds. This system,announced Tuesday,includes a new 5.5-GHz,six-core processor,versus the 5.2-GHz,quad-core processor that shipped with the zEnterprise ...
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PayPal and Discover said 7 million merchants accepting Discover credit cards will begin accepting payments for in-store purchases from PayPal's 50 million users starting in the second quarter of 2013. PayPal called the announcement an ...
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Despite a years-long upgrade of Australia's payment systems, fraudsters are still profiting, leaving a questionable record for a vast program to equip debit and credit cards with new security features. For several years, Australia has ...
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Retail chip and PIN devices can be attacked easily,exposing banks,retailers and customers to fraud. Researchers from Basingstoke-based MWR InfoSecurity demonstrated at the 2012 Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that it is possible to ...
Tags: Retail chip and PIN devices, MWR Infosecurity, 2012 Black Hat, Las Vegas
Close your eyes and think of the cloud.Odds are Amazon quickly comes to mind--for good reason.By some estimates,Amazon Web Services holds 70 percent of the IaaS(infrastructure as a service)market,providing compute,storage,and networking ...
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