Samsung TecTiles Let Users Automate their Lives with NFC
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TecTiles allow you to automate daily or repetitive smartphone operations with just one tap[...]
Continue ReadingUS Companies Show Most Interest in New Top-level Domain Names
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Seven companies want news, eight want music or a movie, and seven want love. Four want pizza, but none of them make it. Only two want sex, and one even wants a unicorn.
Those names figure among the 1930 applications to create and operate new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) revealed Wednesday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which coordinates the DNS (Domain Name System), selecting registries and setting rules for management of top-level domain names including .com, .org, .info and .biz.
The gTLD "google" was claimed by Charleston Road Registry along with 100 others including "search," "store" and "youtube." The company appears to be acting for Google. App[...]
Continue ReadingThose names figure among the 1930 applications to create and operate new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) revealed Wednesday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which coordinates the DNS (Domain Name System), selecting registries and setting rules for management of top-level domain names including .com, .org, .info and .biz.
The gTLD "google" was claimed by Charleston Road Registry along with 100 others including "search," "store" and "youtube." The company appears to be acting for Google. App[...]
Merchant Information May Have Been Stolen From Global Payments
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Hackers might have stolen the personal information of individuals who applied for a merchant account with card payment processor Global Payments.
"We have recently learned of potential unauthorized access to servers containing personal information from a subset of merchant applicants," Paul Garcia, Global Payments' chairman and CEO, said during a conference call with shareholders on Tuesday.
It's not clear whether the attackers actually accessed or copied the merchant data stored on the server, Garcia said. "However, we are notifying certain individuals in the U.S. whose personal information may have been subject to access."
Affected individuals will be offered free credit monitoring service[...]
Continue Reading"We have recently learned of potential unauthorized access to servers containing personal information from a subset of merchant applicants," Paul Garcia, Global Payments' chairman and CEO, said during a conference call with shareholders on Tuesday.
It's not clear whether the attackers actually accessed or copied the merchant data stored on the server, Garcia said. "However, we are notifying certain individuals in the U.S. whose personal information may have been subject to access."
Affected individuals will be offered free credit monitoring service[...]
Apple Discontinues 17-Inch MacBook Pro
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Apple's 17-inch notebook computer has long been the choice for users who needed the power and capability of a desktop without completely sacrificing portability[...]
Continue ReadingLeaked Windows Phone 8 Screenshots Show Skype Integration
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The pressure is on Microsoft to expand its young phone OS and its influence with app developers[...]
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