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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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Users love shadow IT, but IT departments hate the very idea. It doesn’t have to be that way. In most IT departments, the very words “shadow IT” conjure visions of out-of-control users merrily spreading sensitive data on insecure services and unapproved devices, risking huge losses and costing IT personnel lost […]
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All eyes are on Samsung Pay and its embedded LoopPay inside the Galaxy S6 smartphone Mobile in-store payments could grow dramatically in the U.S. as the result of a battle brewing among tech giants Google, Samsung and Apple. In the latest development, Samsung today revealed Samsung Pay, a new mobile […]
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This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Hybrid cloud is the talk of IT, but to avoid costly, labor-intensive megaprojects you cannot escape, pay particular attention to minimizing implementation and management complexity. […]
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Pundits say spectrum demand will overrun supply by 2018 or 2019. Grabbing someone else’s frequencies would be one solution. Unlicensed spectrum would be the logical place to expand traffic if, as mobile networks are finding, their licensed spectrum is running out. Why not shift over to unlicensed spectrum? It’s unlicensed, […]
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This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Everyone used to hire mobile app developers to build custom programs, but that often resulted in shoddy, insecure programs that sometimes didn’t even work. And […]