Visa said Tuesday that it has expanded its digital wallet service V.me to an additional 53 banks and 23 merchant partners. About 55 million cardholders now can use V.me for their online shopping. V.me is a wallet service that aims to make ...
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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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Tizen 2.0, the open-source smartphone operating system, is now available as an alpha release with an accompanying software development kit (SDK), the Tizen project announced on Tuesday. The release lends credence to rumors that project ...
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IDG News Service-If Japan's Softbank barges its way into the U.S.mobile market,expect contract prices to fall. The company,mostly unknown outside of Japan,is in negotiations to acquire a large chunk in U.S.operator Sprint Nextel,and ...
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BLU Products, one of the fastest growing mobile phone manufacturers in the world, announced the new VIVO 4.65 HD, as a big brother to the already popular and bestselling VIVO 4.3 which launched earlier this year. Improvements on the VIVO ...
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Some very techie words have been very popular this year. And just to prove it, the Oxford American Dictionaries announced its Word of the Year, along with a techy-flavored list of runner-ups this week. So, drum roll, please. The Word of ...
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BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, July 12, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- In a world in which people have become entirely dependant on their iPhones and Smartphones for personal and professional use, it goes hand in hand that they take their essential ...
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Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officials are planning to build a computer system to analyse photo and video evidence gathered by members of the public using mobile phones. The project was inspired by systems used by broadcasters to ...
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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 ...
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Can a user take quality photos better than those snapped by smartphones, yet still upload and share them instantly to the web or social networks? It's a question asked not only by consumers but by professional photographers wanting to ...
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MI5 chief Jonathan Evans says the intelligence agency is working against"astonishing"levels of cyber-attacks on UK industry. In his first public speech in two years at London's Mansion House,Evans warned that internet"vulnerabilities"were ...
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In a new twist, spammers have built a botnet that sends SMS spam through infected Android phones, shifting the potentially pricey cost of sending spam to victims. The trend, spotted by security vendor Cloudmark, poses a new challenge for ...
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With all this economic gloom inevitably affecting business confidence in the industry, a small device, no bigger that five inches square, lifted my spirits. I might just have seen a dot of light at the end of the tunnel. The device in ...
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AUSTRALIAN telcos are ramping up plans to enable customers to pay for goods by swiping their mobile phones or tablets at the checkout. The move, which may eventually render credit cards obsolete, has been mooted for several years and the ...
Tags: Phone Payments, customers, checkout, Electronics
Google's Motorola Mobility business has filed a new patent infringement suit against rival Apple,claiming that a number of Apple iPhone features infringe patents Google acquired when it bought Motorola's mobile phone unit. Motorola is ...
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