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Apple recently launched is Apple Pay mobile wallet offering, and tucked away inside it is a security feature considered to be one of the most fraud-proof and secure payment mechanisms available: tokenization. Apple's use of tokenization positions the company as a trustworthy provider of mobile payment services.
 Why You Need to Know: In our world of "as-a-Service" delivery, the payments security industry has launched various "tokenization-as-a-service" offerings. If they prove successful, the implications for retailers are significant, including greater security, reduced compliance burden and reduced risk. |
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As most mobile consumers are now using multimodal smartphones or tablets to do both, they have choices about using voice or visual interfaces for any form of communications they are involved with. But are all choices valid for the mobile user all the time?
Why You Need to Know: What is most important to consider is that, as end users become more mobile, they will not necessarily be able to easily engage in a voice or "on-camera" video exchange. What will then be the most basic, reliable, and least disruptive form of communication will be text messaging and visual information exchanges. |
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The rise of home security tools has made plenty of headway in terms of giving users a way to protect home, business and property, and one new tool takes advantage of Web-based real time communications (WebRTC) technology to make it better.
Why You Need to Know: With Amaryllo's new line of tools, users can essentially watch the feed from the Amaryllo line of smart home network video cameras through a browser capable of running WebRTC, generally Firefox or Chrome. |
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The ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) performance during its over two year effort to add as many as 1,400 new Top Level Domain (gTLDs) web site suffixes— expanding from the familiar .com, .net and .org—has been contentious and the opposite of boring to say the least.
Why You Need to Know: Without passing judgment on ICANN, while the motives for expanding the gTLDs makes sense, it is not surprising that no matter how they decided to delegate names there was going to be an uproar. |
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One of the absolutely greatest things about Web-based real time communications is that it's constantly generating new applications, including many that simply wouldn't be expected at all before actually arriving on the market stage.
Why You Need to Know: One such development for likely more than a few people is set to arrive from Jibe Mobile, and over the next several months, it will roll out a new desktop client that allows users to put what amounts to a complete mobile device into a PC desktop. |
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