A telecommunications group including Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. (T) hired Michael J Abbot, a former executive with General Electric (GE), to run a venture that will let consumers pay for purchases using their smartphone.
Abbot, who was previ…
Online sales growth will outpace revenue at brick-and-mortar-only stores this holiday season, according to research firm ComScore. The company predicts online shopping will grow three times as fast as overall retail sales.
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Dell (DELL) will ditch the BlackBerry and give employees a Dell smartphone.
The change will affect about 25,000 Dell employees who currently use a company issued BlackBerry, Reuters reported. Dell employs about 100,000 people in total.
Dell also plans to encourage its business clients to make the switch to Dell’s own smartphone, the Dell Venue Pro. The Venue Pro runs on Microsoft’s…
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Dell to Ditch BlackBerry, Give Employees a Dell Smartphone originally appeared on DailyFinance on Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:31:00.
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Israel’s domestic security chief warned that civilian Internet applications including Google Earth (GOOG) and iPhone apps, offer militant groups access to intelligence that rivals that available to government spies.
Yuval Diskin, director of Shin Bet, said cyber technologies are a rising international security threat, Reuters reported.
“Intelligence once enjoyed only by countries…
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Israel Security Chief Wary of Google Earth, iPhone Apps originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:51:00.
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Facebook said that a data broker has been buying information on users from application developers.
Certain Facebook apps were sending users’ Facebook ID numbers to third-party marketing or data firms, violating the site’s privacy policies, The Wall Street Journal said. Companies can use an ID number to look up a user’s name and other information.
Facebook said it has put some…
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Facebook Says Data Broker Was Buying User Info originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 07:13:00.
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