By Clint Boulton on 2011-05-30 NEW YORK—Google May 26 introduced Google Wallet, the search engine’s long-rumored mobile payment service. The free service, unveiled at an event at Google’s sprawling New York office, includes a free Google application that users can download to tap their phone and pay for goods from participating merchants, such as RadioShack. Citigroup [...]
By Clint Boulton on 2011-05-30 NEW YORK—Google May 26 introduced Google Wallet, the search engine’s long-rumored mobile payment service. The free service, unveiled at an event at Google’s sprawling New York office, includes a free Google application that users can download to tap their phone and pay for goods from participating merchants, such as RadioShack. Citigroup [...]
Russian security firm ElcomSoft claims to have cracked the AES-256 encryption Apple used to encrypt data on user iPhones. Despite the claim of the company’s CEO, that’s not quite the case. The publicly available ElcomSoft Phone Password Breaker application provides users with the ability to view encrypted data extracted from mobile devices running Apple iOS [...]
Being regulatory-compliant does not necessarily reduce the chances of a data breach, at least for the health care industry, according to a new study. Even more worrisome, organizations appear to be focusing more on compliance and less on security. About 56 percent of IT security professionals in the health care industry said they spend the [...]
Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZW) began sellingthe Motorola Droid X2 smartphone online May 19 for $199.99, with the Android 2.2-based follow-up to the smash-hit Droid X from last July readily available in Verizon retail stores May 26. That’s tomorrow, folks. I’ve been using the Droid X as my personal smartphone since November. Rather than comparing the device to [...]
Mobile devices are increasingly becoming a key security risk for enterprises as employees access sensitive company information using smartphones, tablets, laptops and netbooks. However, most employees are not thinking enough about protecting corporate data when using these devices, a recent survey shows. One in three employees polled kept sensitive work-related information on their mobile devices, [...]
Avaya officials are bulking up the company’s Avaya-one X solutions to offer greater communications capabilities to mobile workers. At its International Avaya User Group event in Las Vegas May 23, Avaya announced the new enhancements to Avaya-one X, which include support for a wide range of mobile devices—including Apple iPhones and smartphones running Google’s Android [...]
Dell is set to roll out its newest tablet, the business-focused 10.1-inch Streak Pro, in June, according to reports. Dell’s tablet, which will run Google’s Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system, will join a long list of media tablets set to roll out during the summer as a growing number of vendors look to gain traction [...]
An evolving Nokia knows that the world is full of creative people with smart ideas—and it’s opening its doors to them. The latest new thing from the Stephen Elop-led Nokia is ”Invent With Nokia”—an initiative inviting people to submit ideas that Nokia will pay for if they decide to use them. The Nokia Conversations blog explains: [...]
San Francisco has signed a contract to port 23,000 municipal employees’ email to Microsoft’s cloud. The transition to Microsoft Exchange Online will continue over the next year, and involve employees from around 60 departments and agencies. City executives on a May 18 conference call suggested that the initiative would cost $1.2 million per year, which [...]
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