Many Android apps from Google Play security-challenged
German university researchers have found hundreds of popular Android apps in the Google Play market that leave 10s of millions of users vulnerable to attackers looking to steal banking credentials, credit card numbers and other personal information. The problem is in the way the tablet and smartphone apps implement the security protocol used in communicating with users’ Web browsers, the researchers said. An analysis of...
Apple Unveils New iTunes
With iTunes in the Cloud, the music, apps, and books you purchase automatically appear on all your devices. Or you can download only the stuff you want — including movies and TV shows — to just the devices you want.1 It’s all part of iCloud and iTunes 10.7. Free Download Read the rest here: Apple Unveils New iTunesbest auto insurance Texas
PayPal Here goes on sale at AT&T stores: like a one-stop shop for account hiccups
By Jon Fingas posted Oct 20th 2012 9:00PM PayPal Here, despite all its focus on in-store transactions, hasn’t really been available to buy in a US store — that’s been the domain of the seemingly ubiquitous Square reader. eBay’s payment wing has at last established that retail beachhead through a deal with AT&T. About 1,800 of the carrier’s stores are now carrying PayPal Here readers, and...
Google says mobile payments growing fast but won’t catch on overnight
Mobile payments with Google Wallet are growing fast, but the road to wide acceptance of NFC in the U.S. will be slow, the head of Google’s payments unit said Friday. The number of NFC (near-field communication) transactions with Google Wallet doubled in the first six weeks after the Aug. 1 launch of a cloud-based version, and that trend has continued, said Osama Bedier, Google’s vice president of wallet and payments, in a...
Mobile Miscellany: week of October 15th, 2012
By Zachary Lutz posted Oct 20th 2012 10:00PM If you didn’t get enough in mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we’ve opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This past week, we received further evidence of an imminent replacement for the Galaxy Nexus and the Optimus 4X HD found a new home in Canada. These stories and more await after the break. So buy the ticket and take the ride as we explore the...
