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MasterCard Works with Apple to Integrate Apple Pay

September 10, 2014September 10, 2014 enews

Cardholders to Enjoy an Easy, Secure and Private Mobile Payment Experience Purchase, NY and Cupertino, CA – September 9, 2014 – Paying with mobile devices is about to become even more Priceless™. Today, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) unveiled Apple Pay that will enable MasterCard cardholders to use their iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch for everyday purchases. MasterCard built the foundation for secure mobile transactions, so consumers can use their cards when, where and how they want. MasterCard worked with Apple to deliver a seamless and secure payment experience. For consumers and merchants alike, that means that every purchase made with a MasterCard…

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Adobe patches Flash Player

September 9, 2014September 9, 2014 enews

A dozen vulnerabilities mean new versions of Flash Player and AIR on all platforms, including iOS and Android. Adobe has released new versions of Flash Player and Air for all platforms. The updates address 12 vulnerabilities in the products, some of them rated critical. The vulnerable versions of Flash Player for Windows and Mac are 14.0.0.179 and earlier and 13.0.0.241 and earlier. Adobe Flash Player for Internet Explorer 10 and Internet Explorer 11 versions 14.0.0.176 and earlier and Adobe Flash Player for Google Chrome versions 14.0.0.177 and earlier are vulnerable.…

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Ericsson opens its first Global ICT Center in Sweden

September 8, 2014September 8, 2014 enews

Ericsson today inaugurates its first Global ICT Center in Linköping, Sweden. This follows Ericsson’s announcement made in September last year to build three new Global ICT Centers. Two will be located in Sweden; one in Quebec, Canada. The centers will support Ericsson’s over 25,000 Research and Development employees’ daily work as well as service organizations around the world. Today Ericsson has test labs and data centers around the world. The strategy is to consolidate most of these, with equipment and installations, to the new centers. Graham Osborne, Vice President, Global ICT Center…

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Serbia starts countdown to ASO

September 4, 2014September 4, 2014 enews

Serbia has officially begun its transition to digital broadcasting, with analogue switch off set to take place in some parts of the country on March 1, 2015 and completed exactly two months later. Quoting Tatjana Matic, the state secretary, Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, Boru reports that all parts of Serbia will have simulcasting for six months, following which TV services will slowly become all-digital. She added that free STBs would be provided to disadvantaged and vulnerable sections of the population. Matic also said that Serbia would benefit from the digital…

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Ericsson trials LTE Broadcast in Poland

September 2, 2014September 2, 2014 enews

Ericsson and Polkomtel have successfully carried out the first test of LTE Broadcast technology in Poland. Taking place on August 30, it streaming the opening game of the 2014 World Volleyball Championship between Poland and Serbia to 300 selected guests and journalists at Warsaw’s National Stadium. According to Ericsson, the test group was provided with 300 LTE Broadcast-enabled mobile devices with a pre-configured application to watch live streaming of the game. The whole event lasted for about four hours and the trial was well received by the test group, with…

Windows 9 to be free for Windows 8.1 users?

August 28, 2014August 28, 2014 enews

Windows 9 is rumoured to be a free update for Windows 8.1 users, with more incentives for other customers. Photo: Mike Flacy Microsoft is reportedly planning to offer incentives for existing users of its OS to upgrade to Windows 9, the software giant’s next-generation operating system that looks set to debut on 30 September. This news comes courtesy of well-known leaker WZOR, reported Myce, who has claimed that Windows 8.1 users will be offered the upgrade to Windows 9 for free, while those currently working with a retail or OEM version of…

The Holographic Augmented Reality Future Has Arrived (Again)

August 26, 2014August 26, 2014 enews

A team of UK engineers is advertising the development of a first-of-its-kind wearable display device using properly holographic, interactive imagery. The group is part of the recently-launched TruLife Optics firm, and the new advances, described in this week’s edition of Physics World, are part of its collaboration with the UK’s National Physical Laboratory. The system is so-far being marketed to augmented reality-geared developers, who can purchase a set-up for £360, and TruLife already has a “developer’s corner” live on its website. This is hardly a distant future, and it would…

100 million smartphone owners browse the web using Opera’s products

August 26, 2014August 26, 2014 enews

Oslo, Norway – August 26, 2014 – 100 million Android active users are now accessing the web using Opera’s browsers, twice as many as one year ago, Opera Software announced today. India, followed by China, Indonesia, Russia and Mexico have the largest number of Opera users on Android. “We are working hard to make fast, secure and easy-to-use web browsers, and I am very happy that we now have over 100 million smartphone customers around the world,” says Lars Boilesen, CEO at Opera Software. “We want to create a connected world,…

Microsoft must hand over overseas data, US court rules

August 21, 2014August 21, 2014 enews

Software giant to appeal ruling asking it to hand over data from its Irish datacentre Microsoft has lost another bid to have a US government warrant demanding access to emails stored in its Dublin-based datacentre overturned. The company has been ordered to hand over the emails to law enforcers in the US as part of a criminal investigation, the details of which have not been disclosed at this time. US district judge Loretta Preska has ruled that Microsoft must hand over the data, even though it’s stored in a country…

16.37% of Users Still Run Windows XP, Kaspersky Lab Statistics Say

August 21, 2014August 21, 2014 enews

More than 16% of all PC users who agreed to provide data to the distributed global Kaspersky Security Network were still working on computers running Windows XP in June 2014. This fact carries potential implications for information security. This number was part of the findings from the “Windows usage and vulnerabilities research” carried out by Kaspersky Lab experts in the summer of 2014. Users whose computers run under a dated operating system or have out-of-date versions of installed software risk coming under attack from malware that exploits vulnerabilities. The study…