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	Seeking security, American Express aims to swap card numbers with tokens The company's token service allows merchants and mobile payment providers to stop working with sensitive payment card numbers. Read More WHITE PAPER: Onapsis Inc. Protecting Your Company's Lifeblood Threats to mission-critical ERP data are sometimes overlooked, leaving systems exposed to potentially crippling attacks. Learn best practices for safeguarding your SAP ERP systems, including the use of automated assessment and audit solutions. Learn More In this Issue Starbucks says 1 in 6 payments already mobile Android market share may have hit its peak iPad app helps energy company prevent power outages Ruckus goes after small business with app-managed Xclaim Wi-Fi Getting chipped: Why one privacy-obsessed editor is testing an NFC chip implant Why CurrentC will beat out Apple Pay in the end When it comes to mobile, IT is out of touch Startup Capriza scores $27M to Zapp legacy apps into mobile ones What you should know about Lenovo's Motorola acquisition Sencha melds desktop and smartphone management with Space Major banks ready their own mobile payment apps BlackBerry upgrades BBM with timed messages WEBCAST: Flexera Software Application Readiness it Today's Heterogeneous Environments Hear how IT professionals can leverage Application Readiness, Software License Optimization and Integrated IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions to streamline and optimize processes for delivering and accounting for a wide-range of applications. Learn More>> Starbucks says 1 in 6 payments already mobile The company said it accounted for 90 percent of mobile payments in the US last year. Read More Android market share may have hit its peak In today's Android roundup: Android may have hit its maximum market share. Plus: Five Android 5.0 Lollipop apps that use Material Design, and the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare companion app released for Android. Read More iPad app helps energy company prevent power outages LG&E and KU Energy uses helicopters to get a birds-eye view of damages and potential problems that could bring down power. The challenge came when the pilots tried to document and relay the info inflight. Read More Ruckus goes after small business with app-managed Xclaim Wi-Fi The company's new consumer brand is designed for low price and easy setup and management. Read More Getting chipped: Why one privacy-obsessed editor is testing an NFC chip implant What will happen if you wear an NFC chip implant for a year? IDG Netherlands News Editor René Schoemaker is testing just that. Read More Why CurrentC will beat out Apple Pay in the end Even though Apple has the technically superior platform for mobile payments, it won't be enough to win the war. Read More : Brother International Corp. Virtual Training Programs for Remote Sales Agents Vehicle Protection Plus can train their sales agents, and get them productive, regardless of location using OmniJoin web conferencing. Find out how. Learn More>> When it comes to mobile, IT is out of touch According to Appcelerator's latest report on mobile trends, IT isn't as in command as it thinks. Read More Startup Capriza scores $27M to Zapp legacy apps into mobile ones Capriza, a startup that helps enterprises convert their legacy apps into mobile- and cloud-based ones, Thursday announced it has racked up an additional $27 million in venture funding. Read More What you should know about Lenovo's Motorola acquisition No products are being discontinued and Motorola's Android strategy remains intact. Read More Sencha melds desktop and smartphone management with Space An upgraded version of Sencha's Space platform has the potential to bring together desktops, smartphones and tablets, with lower management costs along the way. So far, mobile devices have been managed using separate tools, but in the long run that's too expensive. The big trend in the management sector is a move from separate to integrated tools that can manage smartphones, tablets and PCs. Sencha is best known for its cross-platform development tools. But the company also has designs on the management market with Space, which is a managed application platform for HTML and Javascript-based applications. Instead of running the apps in a browser, Sencha has developed a more secure client for them to run in. With version 1.2 of Space, the client can run on desktops in addition to smartphones and tablets. Once the client has been installed, users can access the same apps they have previously used on their mobile devices.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Major banks ready their own mobile payment apps Several major national and international banks are planning to launch their own mobile payments apps next year. The banks would be major competitors to handset makers Apple and Google because unlike others pushing mobile wallet technology, such as mobile phone carriers and retailers, they already have an intimate relationship with consumers and know their spending habits. "Banks all around the world are working on this right now," said James Anderson, senior vice president for mobile and emerging payments at MasterCard. [ Why CurrentC will beat out Apple Pay in the endTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More BlackBerry upgrades BBM with timed messages Taking a page from the Snapchat playbook, BlackBerry will let BBM messaging service users control how long messages and pictures can be viewed, hoping the feature, along with other new capabilities, will result in a new revenue stream. The BBM upgrade will be available for BlackBerry's own smartphones as well as for Android and iOS over the next couple of days. The company didn't say when the Windows Phone version would be updated. By setting a timer, users control how long messages and pictures can be viewed by their contacts. The new BBM message type is hidden until the recipient touches and holds on the chat. Then, once the timer has expired or when the recipient takes their finger off the screen, the message is gone, according to BlackBerry. The user also receives a notification if BBM detects that a screenshot of the image or message has been taken.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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