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Munich, March 26, 2014 – Starting in the first half of 2014 Brazilians will be able to use their smartphones to carry out contactless payment transactions when shopping. In the first commercial project of its kind in Latin America, Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is working together with Claro and one of the country’s largest banks, Bradesco,. The mobile payment project will kick off in the state of São Paulo and will later be expanded to other parts of the country, generating a total countrywide customer base of over 85 million…

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Check Point Automates Network Security for VMware Virtualization and Cloud Environments Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that the company is collaborating with VMware to automate and simplify the provisioning and deployment of network security in private clouds. Check Point will make its security protection solutions interoperable with VMware infrastructure. As today’s data center moves quickly down the path of virtualization, it is important for security to keep pace with virtual environments. Virtualization has greatly increased the speed at which applications…

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The original computer scientists The first computer programmers and most celebrated mathematicians throughout history were women. In honor of Women’s History Month, here are the oft-forgotten, influential tech pioneers. In this photo from 1946, two of the first programmers, Esther Gerston and Gloria Gordon work with the ENIAC computer.  Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer Ada Lovelace, born in 1815 to famed poet Lord Byron and his wife, is known as the first computer programmer. When renowned mathematician Charles Babbage began working on his “Analytical Engine,” she served as the key interpreter,…

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The Croatian and Slovenian public broadcasters HRT and RTV Slovenije have signed an agreement on cooperation in the exchange of programming – both radio and TV – produced by the two parties. According to SEEbiz, it spans content on culture, entertainment and the arts, along with children’s documentary and informative content. This is the first agreement that formally regulates cooperation between the two broadcasters since the dissolution of the Yugoslav national broadcaster JRT in the 1990s. However, they have already worked closely together for many years on many levels. Most…

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Networking giant unveils plans to end Amazon dominance in cloud. Cisco launched plans to offer cloud computing services, pledging to spend $1 billion over the next two years to enter a market currently led by the world’s biggest online retailer Amazon, the Wall Street Journal reported. Cisco said it will spend the amount to build data centers to help run the new service called Cisco Cloud Services, the Journal reported. Enterprise hardware spending is dwindling across the globe as companies cope with shrinking budgets, slowing or uncertain economies and a…

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Zuckerberg claims companies expect to be fighting criminals “not our own government”. Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg blasted the US government’s electronic surveillance practices on Thursday, saying he’d personally called President Barack Obama to voice his displeasure. “When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government,” Zuckerberg said in a post on his personal Facebook page. “I’ve called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future. Unfortunately, it seems like it will take a very long time for true…

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What pops into your head when thinking of the World Wide Web? Words such as boundless, huge and even trampoline might cross your mind, yet the first adjectives it got were “vague but exciting.” Quite far from what we think of it today, on its 25th birthday.  A confusion still surrounding the World Wide Web is that it is often mistaken for the Internet. The Internet is the network of computers that circulates data around the globe, whereas the Web is one application that delivers data in form of webpages. Before Sir…

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All Ukrainian on-air broadcasters have lost their audience in Crimea in the past week, according Valentyn Koval, the general manager of M1 and M2 TV channels. In a statement provided to Broadband TV News, he adds that new management of retransmission centres across Crimea switched off all Ukrainian TV channels and re-routed signals of Russian TV channels to transmitters instead. “I should add that most Ukrainian channels used their own transmitters and antennas, so this re-routing was made without any agreements and we consider our property is stolen or “annexed””. Koval…

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New flexible service, hosted on HP’s FedRAMP-authorized cloud, simplifies device and app management to accelerate government mobility, improve workforce productivity PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP Enterprise Services today announced a new service designed to help accelerate the U.S. public sector’s adoption of mobile technology to drive workforce productivity, while securing IT assets. The growth in adoption of high-bandwidth mobile services presents the opportunity for a new era of digital government. Government employees expect broad and seamless access to business and personal applications and data from their device of choice. In…

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