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It’s not clear whether the retailer will ever adopt CurrentC mobile payments Best Buy explained Tuesday that it will support Apple Pay mobile payments, while also remaining a member of the MCX group of retailers that has promoted an alternative payment system called CurrentC. LG bets on battery life over […]
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CurrentC coming summer 2015 CurrentC is expected to be available in mid 2015, and it will combine mobile payments and loyalty benefits. Merchant Content Exchange (MCX), a company owned by a consortium of U.S. retailers including CVS, Best Buy, Lowe’s, Sears, Target, and Walmart, backs the CurrentC platform. Small-scale trials […]
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As container hype sweeps across technology, what does it mean for VMs? Two years ago when Frank Macreery started Aptible to help companies host sensitive healthcare data in the cloud, as CTO he decided that containers would play a pivotal role in the company’s operations. “Running our service just on […]
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Tweaked agreement gives Yahoo more flexibility, possibly in images or mobile Nearly six years after Microsoft and Yahoo inked a search partnership, the companies are extending their agreement while changing it up a bit, as well. The companies announced today that they have amended their search partnership. However, the deal […]
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The number of data breaches since 2005 are sliced and diced by state and sector, but nobody should be really surprised by the results. Leaking breaches everywhere Morgan & Morgan, a personal injury law firm, has compiled data that shows 930 million records have been breached since 2005. In 2010, […]
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Recruiting IT security professionals can be tough, unless you have a great elevator pitch, says an insurance company CIO Hiring (and retaining) data security talent is one of the toughest jobs today, especially after a slew of high-profile data breaches that have driven demand and salaries sky-high. Robert S. Allen, […]
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I did the unthinkable – left Linux behind and lived in the Windows 10 technical preview as my primary computing environment. Here’s what I learned. Every now and then, it’s nice to break out of your bubble, to really get outside your comfort zone and see how things are “on […]
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While Google for Work and Microsoft Office 365 offer many similar services, choosing between the two can be a significant challenge for CIOs. This comparison eases that burden. CIOs and IT managers have many choices when it comes to cloud-based productivity tools for email, documents, calendar and file-sharing. The first […]
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Perhaps a “Surface Pro 4” will debut at the same time or soon after Windows 10 launches. Here’s what we’d like to see in the Surface Pro 4. Surface Pro 4 Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 has become a surprise hit, bringing in more than $900 million in revenue, according to […]