Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apple. Show all posts
Tuesday 6 January 2015
Apple Watch will deliver ‘Hyper-Local’ ads on your wrist
From Business Insider -
“The mobile ad exchange TapSense on Monday announced the very first ad platform for the Apple Watch, which will include a software development kit to help app developers, marketers, brands and agencies deliver their ads and content on Apple’s first wearable device for the wrist.
According to Apple Insider, TapSense’s ad platform will use your iPhone’s GPS to deliver contextual local offers, like coupons from a local store, right on your wrist.”
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Editor's comment: This could be a real turn-off for potential watch fans, especially if they see this advertising as spam.
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Apple,
Apple Pay,
Apple Watch,
smartwatch,
technology
Monday 15 September 2014
Apple a decade behind Japan mobile payment curve
From The Economic Times
“Apple's proud announcement that its new iPhone could be used to buy goods in a single swipe left customers non-plussed in Japan, where mobile contactless payments have been normal fare for a decade.
A type of Near Field Communication (NFC) chip, known in Japan as FeliCa, was introduced to the Japanese mobile market in June 2004 and has been been implanted in almost all phones sold in the country since.
The iPhone has been one of the few chip-less exceptions - something that will change when the new models hit Japanese shelves on September 19.”
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Apple,
iPhone,
Japan,
mobile payments,
NFC,
retail banking
Saturday 1 March 2014
Apple Is Building A Mobile Payments Platform To Rival PayPal
From Seeking Alpha
“There is considerable anecdotal evidence that Apple is preparing to invade the mobile payments space. A quick perusal of the company's recent patent filings leads me to conclude that Apple's engineers are indeed converging on a large scale mobile payments solution to rival PayPal.”
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“There is considerable anecdotal evidence that Apple is preparing to invade the mobile payments space. A quick perusal of the company's recent patent filings leads me to conclude that Apple's engineers are indeed converging on a large scale mobile payments solution to rival PayPal.”
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Apple,
banking,
mobile payments,
PayPal,
retail payments
Friday 21 February 2014
Could Apple’s Mobile Payments Disrupt PayPal?
From Motley Fool
“With a simple click of a button on a smartphone or tablet screen, a mobile payment is made. According to market research firm Forrester, the mobile payment industry was at $12.8 billion in 2012 but is predicted to rise to $90 billion by 2017—and that's one of the lower estimates. The technology is catching like wildfire for its ease, convenience, and speed. Since PayPal got the industry off the ground in 1998, new players have entered the market over the years.”
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“With a simple click of a button on a smartphone or tablet screen, a mobile payment is made. According to market research firm Forrester, the mobile payment industry was at $12.8 billion in 2012 but is predicted to rise to $90 billion by 2017—and that's one of the lower estimates. The technology is catching like wildfire for its ease, convenience, and speed. Since PayPal got the industry off the ground in 1998, new players have entered the market over the years.”
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Apple,
banks,
mobile payments,
PayPal,
retail payments
Saturday 8 February 2014
Triple whammy hits bitcoin price
From Finextra
“Bitcoin's price has plummeted by around 20% after exchange MT Gox temporarily suspended withdrawals, Apple kicked a popular wallet off of its App Store and Russia outlawed the crypto-currency.”
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“Bitcoin's price has plummeted by around 20% after exchange MT Gox temporarily suspended withdrawals, Apple kicked a popular wallet off of its App Store and Russia outlawed the crypto-currency.”
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Apple,
Bitcoin,
crypto-currency,
digital money,
markets,
risk,
Russia
Friday 31 January 2014
Mobile Payments: Apple's Coming $800 Billion Opportunity
From Daily Finance
“Shares of Apple are back in the doghouse after the tech giant disappointed investors in its weaker-than-expected earnings report Monday after the bell.
Soft iPhone sales, along with light forward guidance for the current quarter, helped spark one of the biggest single-day declines in recent memory. Apple shares are now hovering around $500, effectively erasing all of its gains since October.
If there was a silver lining, it once again came from CEO Tim Cook's typical reference to future products. In Apple's conference call, Cook briefly commented that mobile payments are one area Apple finds intriguing beyond its current product scope. This naturally gave rise to wild speculation that Apple is indeed eying a possible mobile-payments product as one part of its often-touted "product pipeline." “
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“Shares of Apple are back in the doghouse after the tech giant disappointed investors in its weaker-than-expected earnings report Monday after the bell.
Soft iPhone sales, along with light forward guidance for the current quarter, helped spark one of the biggest single-day declines in recent memory. Apple shares are now hovering around $500, effectively erasing all of its gains since October.
If there was a silver lining, it once again came from CEO Tim Cook's typical reference to future products. In Apple's conference call, Cook briefly commented that mobile payments are one area Apple finds intriguing beyond its current product scope. This naturally gave rise to wild speculation that Apple is indeed eying a possible mobile-payments product as one part of its often-touted "product pipeline." “
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Apple,
mobile payments,
retail payments
Wednesday 11 December 2013
Online Firms Blast NSA's Tactics
From BankInfoSecurity
“A letter from eight prominent online companies to President Obama and Congress calls for reform of government surveillance programs, outlining concerns about the way the National Security Agency monitors online and telephone communications.
The companies - AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo - sent the letter this week, urging the federal government to institute reforms that ensure government surveillance efforts are clearly restricted by law, proportionate to the risks, transparent and subject to independent oversight.
"The tech giants' message couldn't be any clearer or more welcome - the government's massive spying authorities must be reined in immediately," says Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington legislative office. "Widespread support for reform will only continue to grow until Congress and the administration deal with out-of-control spying head on by prohibiting indiscriminate surveillance."
Fueling concerns about NSA activities are what seem to be never-ending leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Among the latest was a Dec. 4 Washington Post report that the agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, which allows it to track the movements of individuals - and map their relationships - in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.”
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“A letter from eight prominent online companies to President Obama and Congress calls for reform of government surveillance programs, outlining concerns about the way the National Security Agency monitors online and telephone communications.
The companies - AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo - sent the letter this week, urging the federal government to institute reforms that ensure government surveillance efforts are clearly restricted by law, proportionate to the risks, transparent and subject to independent oversight.
"The tech giants' message couldn't be any clearer or more welcome - the government's massive spying authorities must be reined in immediately," says Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington legislative office. "Widespread support for reform will only continue to grow until Congress and the administration deal with out-of-control spying head on by prohibiting indiscriminate surveillance."
Fueling concerns about NSA activities are what seem to be never-ending leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Among the latest was a Dec. 4 Washington Post report that the agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, which allows it to track the movements of individuals - and map their relationships - in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.”
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Sunday 15 September 2013
Give Apple your fingerprint? It's your call
From CNN
“Using your fingerprint to identify yourself seems beguilingly simple: it belongs only to you, and you aren't going to lose it. Apple's use of fingerprint technology - although not the first in the industry - seems very in tune with its ethos of making devices easy to use.
However, how safe fingerprint technologies really are does depend on how they are implemented. You might ask, is my fingerprint stored, who else can access it? Can the government demand that Apple hand my fingerprints to them, or use Apple to identify criminals from their database?”
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“Using your fingerprint to identify yourself seems beguilingly simple: it belongs only to you, and you aren't going to lose it. Apple's use of fingerprint technology - although not the first in the industry - seems very in tune with its ethos of making devices easy to use.
However, how safe fingerprint technologies really are does depend on how they are implemented. You might ask, is my fingerprint stored, who else can access it? Can the government demand that Apple hand my fingerprints to them, or use Apple to identify criminals from their database?”
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Apple,
banking,
banks,
biometrics,
IT security,
passwords,
risk
Friday 17 May 2013
Does JPMorgan Plus Apple Equal a Mobile-Banking Home Run?
“Banking is going mobile. The largest U.S. banks have been fairly quick to adopt the new technology and are reaping the benefits as millions of users flock to mobile interfaces.
JPMorgan Chase sports one of the best-received mobile banking platforms. Despite being a relatively small portion of the bank's overall operation, its ability to innovate new mobile products and efficiently serve more customers is good news for investors.
In this video, Motley Fool banking analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson tell investors why this recent trend benefits JPMorgan, as well as tech giant Apple”
JPMorgan Chase sports one of the best-received mobile banking platforms. Despite being a relatively small portion of the bank's overall operation, its ability to innovate new mobile products and efficiently serve more customers is good news for investors.
In this video, Motley Fool banking analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson tell investors why this recent trend benefits JPMorgan, as well as tech giant Apple”
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Apple,
banking,
banks,
innovation,
mobile,
mobile banking,
US
Tuesday 5 March 2013
What we are reading … 5th March 2013
Is Apple Killing Off This Key Technology? http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/is-apple-killing-off-this-key-technology.html/
When Your Broker 'Outs' You http://on.wsj.com/YQj1ob
Over 30 Million Sign Up for Mobile Banking http://dld.bz/cm5SN
10 considerations for BYOD cost/benefit analysis http://dld.bz/cm5SM
Is now the time for major regulatory change? http://www.finextra.com/Community/FullBlog.aspx?blogid=7419
US judge orders cut in Samsung payout to Apple http://bbc.in/YHLF97
Benefits of bringing mobile banking to the unbanked http://gu.com/p/3evp7/tw
Mobile work: Two challenges we need to overcome http://dld.bz/cm5SE
Google, Digital Mailboxes and the long tail of eBilling http://www.finextra.com/Community/FullBlog.aspx?blogid=7420
When Your Broker 'Outs' You http://on.wsj.com/YQj1ob
Over 30 Million Sign Up for Mobile Banking http://dld.bz/cm5SN
10 considerations for BYOD cost/benefit analysis http://dld.bz/cm5SM
Is now the time for major regulatory change? http://www.finextra.com/Community/FullBlog.aspx?blogid=7419
US judge orders cut in Samsung payout to Apple http://bbc.in/YHLF97
Benefits of bringing mobile banking to the unbanked http://gu.com/p/3evp7/tw
Mobile work: Two challenges we need to overcome http://dld.bz/cm5SE
Google, Digital Mailboxes and the long tail of eBilling http://www.finextra.com/Community/FullBlog.aspx?blogid=7420
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Apple,
bank regulation,
banking,
BOYD,
e-commerce,
fraud,
mobile banking
Friday 15 February 2013
Disruptions: Where Apple and Dick Tracy May Converge http://nyti.ms/VO2Mta
Beware the Big Errors of 'Big Data' http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/big-data-means-big-errors-people/
Me Too Rules in Mobile Banking http://dld.bz/cg4zr
Citi implements corporate-to-bank Swift standard for trade http://www.finextra.com/News/FullStory.aspx?newsitemid=24544
Playmobil punts bank-heist set to wide-eyed kiddies http://dld.bz/cg4sS
Identity providers: The voucher business http://econ.st/14UpT6P
The Tightrope Between Checking Account Fees And Consumer Defections http://bit.ly/Y5kKU0
5 Reasons to Let an Angry Email Simmer Down http://dld.bz/cg3Xf
What's Next For Mobile Banking? http://twb.io/YH97DU
Beware the Big Errors of 'Big Data' http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/big-data-means-big-errors-people/
Me Too Rules in Mobile Banking http://dld.bz/cg4zr
Citi implements corporate-to-bank Swift standard for trade http://www.finextra.com/News/FullStory.aspx?newsitemid=24544
Playmobil punts bank-heist set to wide-eyed kiddies http://dld.bz/cg4sS
Identity providers: The voucher business http://econ.st/14UpT6P
The Tightrope Between Checking Account Fees And Consumer Defections http://bit.ly/Y5kKU0
5 Reasons to Let an Angry Email Simmer Down http://dld.bz/cg3Xf
What's Next For Mobile Banking? http://twb.io/YH97DU
Labels:
Apple,
mobile banking,
News - Banks,
SWIFT
Saturday 9 February 2013
What Apple’s Information Win Means for all of eCommerce
“On February 4, the California Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated opinion Apple Inc. v. Superior Court, ruling that Apple’s request for telephone number and address information from customers in connection with the purchase of electronic downloads on its iTunes service — which reached its 25 billionth song download yesterday — does not violate California law. Specifically, the Court ruled that California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971 “does not apply to online purchases in which the product is downloaded electronically.”
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Apple,
e-commerce,
law
Friday 26 August 2011
1984 - Steve Jobs Introduces The Mac
The video recording says it all.
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