Amazon introduces mobile card reader to compete with Square, PayPal

US DOJ asks court to vacate stay in Microsoft email privacy case Nonprofit to bring Sega game console chips back to life IT News Daily August 13, 2014 Share this email Amazon introduces mobile card reader to compete with Square, PayPal Amazon.com has introduced a card reader coupled with smartphone and tablet apps that aim to provide small businesses with a way to accept payments on these devices. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. US DOJ asks court to vacate stay in Microsoft email privacy case 2. Nonprofit to bring Sega game console chips back to life 3. AppliedMicro's 64-core chip could spark off ARM core war 4. Oracle's Sparc M7 chip to supercharge in-memory computing 5. How to reduce the risk of insecure firmware in office gear 6. Rivalry between Uber and Lyft gets ugly US DOJ asks court to vacate stay in Microsoft email privacy case The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a New York court to vacate a stay on an order that would require Microsoft to turn over to the government certain emails held abroad. READ MORE Nonprofit to bring Sega game console chips back to life Processors that powered some of Sega's famous gaming consoles in the 1990s will come back to life starting later this year. READ MORE WHITE PAPER: SIGMA Solutions and EMC Corporation Confront consumerization with convergence Virtualization expert Elias Khnaser spotlights the security, compliance, and governance issues that arise when enterprise users "consumerize" with shadow IT and public cloud services. And he provides a prescription for modifying this behavior with a private cloud hosted on a robust converged infrastructure. Learn More AppliedMicro's 64-core chip could spark off ARM core war A decade-old race to crank up core counts in x86 chips may have lulled, but the competition has just started picking up in ARM processors. READ MORE Oracle's Sparc M7 chip to supercharge in-memory computing Oracle has given the first peek at its upcoming Sparc M7 processor, promising big performance gains for customers who use the in-memory compute features of its 12C database. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IDG TV IDG.tv is now live! Watch all the latest videos from IDG's global network of technology experts, all teed up in searchable channels with a fun, fresh look. Click to continue How to reduce the risk of insecure firmware in office gear A firmware study that found dozens of security problems affecting more than 120 products is a reminder to businesses to segregate and control access to networked office gear, experts say. READ MORE Rivalry between Uber and Lyft gets ugly Two of the hottest startups for requesting rides from your smartphone are accusing each other of dirty tricks. READ MORE Follow IT News Share this email You are currently subscribed to itnews_daily as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com To contact IT News, please send an e-mail to online@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2014 IT News, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **