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Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone - CNN.com - 0 views

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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
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Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
  
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And technology that turns phones into credit cards and IDs poses several potential problems.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 23 Aug 09
  
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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, banks and cell phone makers started conducting trials with U.S. customers. Limited groups of people were given the ability to scan their phones to make payments, enter stadiums and access public transit.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
  
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If phones replace wallets, would-be thieves will see every person walking down the street talking on his or her phone as a target for robbery, said Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
  
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Eye scans and fingerprints would make phone IDs and payments more secure, Brown said. The ID technology might work like a corporate security badge, which pulls up personal information when scanned.
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'Facebook Lite' gets public debut - 0 views

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Facebook Lite appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook and is aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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"Facebook Lite is a fast-loading, simplified version of Facebook that enables people to make comments, accept friend requests, write on people's walls, and look at photos and status updates," the statement continued.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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The site is currently on trial in India and it is thought there are plans to extend this to China and Russia.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
  
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In a statement Facebook said the new service would be a "faster, simpler version similar to the Facebook experience you get on a mobile phone".
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
  
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Dell turns netbooks into navigation devices - CNN.com - 1 views

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Dell netbooks with the integrated GPS cards will allow consumers to pop open a netbook and get directions and also also make their netbook location aware. For instance, buyers can geo-tag photos on Flickr or check weather information customized to their current location. The Wireless 700 card combines Broadcom's GPS technology and Skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi positioning solutions.
- shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09
  
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- shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09
  
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- shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09
  
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"Smartphones already have GPS capabilities," says Alan Sicher, senior wireless product manager at Dell. "We are now bringing it to netbooks so the devices know where you are and can help you where you want to go.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Video appears in paper magazines - 0 views

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The video-in-print ads will appear in select copies of the US show business title Entertainment Weekly.
- shazad rouf on 23 Aug 09
  
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He likened the technology to the Daily Prophet - a newspaper with moving pictures described in the Harry Potter books.
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Spider-Man, X-Men comics coming to PSP - Games - msnbc.com - 0 views

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NEW YORK - Sony is adding a digital reader service that will allow owners of its handheld gaming system, the PlayStation Portable, to download comics.
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- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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Users will be able to read classic and new comics page by page or frame by frame. Sony says PSP owners will be able to access a range of media through the digital reader service, but it gave no further details.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Where tech and philosophy collide - 0 views

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"At the moment, people live longer, healthier and for the most part happier lives than they used to because of medical technology.
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Laurie thinks the future will see a class divide between those who can afford the latest technology and those who can't.
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Among the futures envisaged is a world where human consciousness can be uploaded onto storage devices to live inside virtual environments.
- Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09
  
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Exploiting Browser Information & Privacy - 0 views

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easy it was to exploit security loopholes
- Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09
  
  Easy exploitation leads to a lot of negative consequences and areas of impact include all sorts of education online, banking and financial reserves, businesses and mainstream market affairs, governmental and nongovernmental work and damage to personal information and biological/health data. This also harms intellectual property and ideas can be stolen online far easier than usual... reliability & security....
  
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redirect traffic
- Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09
  
  Redirecting internet connection or regular user traffic could lead to a backlog of information on the web and a loss of personal details and this again as huge areas of impact including security, reliability and extended impact on finances and personal details & anonymity....this also affects systems in the social context with networks being hacked and codes and enscriptions being changed..
  
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access and steal any information exchanged
- Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09
  
  Stealing information can also connect to software and the usage/creation tools of software and other application....communication systems are also greatly affected such as wire tapping systems
  
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony to back open e-book format - 0 views

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The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format.
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Sony said it would have its store converted to the format by the end of 2009. Most Sony Readers can already handle books in the ePub format.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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This may not mean the end of all locks on books readable on Sony's device as the ePub format has an option to implement copyright controls.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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The common format would give Sony Reader owners much more choice about where they get their e-books from.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
  
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"Consumers should not have to worry about which device works with which store," said Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading business division, in a statement.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile data show friend networks - 0 views

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"It's invisible to the user but logs everything: communication, users' locations, people's proximity by doing continuous Bluetooth scans."
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- Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09
  
  This is also an integrity issue because the companies supplying these products don't tell the users that there is a chip in their phones.
  
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Friendships can be inferred with 95% accuracy from call records and the proximity of users, says a new report.
- Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09
  
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but to carry on this "reality mining" in contexts ranging from the modelling of the spread of disease t
- Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09
  
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Pirate Party launches UK poll bid - 1 views

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non-commercial internet file-sharing
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peer-to-peer networking
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future government policy,
- Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
  
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entertainment industry
- Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
  
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