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Security, Loyalty Programs to Drive Mobile Payment Adoption: Survey
U.S. consumer sentiment shows that while only two percent of adults currently use their mobile phone to pay for goods and services, 57 percent of adults expect that mobile payments will become widespread over the next three years, according to a survey released by VeriFone, a secure electronic payment solutions provider. The biggest drivers of…
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10 Technologies to Keep You Connected to the Office This Summer
10 Technologies to Keep You Connected to the Office This Summer 1. The RIM BlackBerry TorchConsidering the popularity of the BlackBerry in today’s corporate world, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the BlackBerry Torch smartphone will be used by many to stay in touch with the office. The device comes with all the BlackBerry features employees…
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Cisco Teams Up With Orange on Cloud-Based Hosted Unified Communications
Cisco Systems is continuing to partner with carriers as officials look to offer the company’s collaboration technology as a hosted service. Three months after announcing a beta program with Verizon, in which the carrier is offering services based on Cisco’s HCS (Hosted Collaboration Suite), the networking giant is rolling out a similar program with Orange…
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Northrop Grumman a Regular Target of Hackers
Organized hackers have been attempting to breach aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman for years to steal sensitive information, according to a Northrop Grumman senior executive at the Gartner security summit. The APTs (advanced persistent threats) are designed to infiltrate networks at companies and government agencies to steal intellectual property or other sensitive information. As…
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MySQL VMs Get a New Template from Oracle
Preconfiguration, prepackaging and automation of many IT functions are key attributes of the new unified computing systems, and this is a trend that is gaining serious traction on a global scale. Spending hours configuring a server or storage array for a virtualized system is fast becoming drudgery of the past. Oracle made a major contribution…
