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Consumer: Google Wallet
Contributed by Rick DeVan on May 27, 2011 at 10:13 am ET
Filed under Consumer
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Smartphone Viruses
Contributed by Rick DeVan on May 25, 2011 at 9:45 am ET
Resource: Can Your Smartphone Get a Virus? via Retrevo.
The short answer to this questions is, yes of course it can.
On a related note, if you are interested in gadgets — and who isn’t? — the Retrevo Blog is a great resource.
Filed under Consumer, Technology
Tags used: Retrevo, SmartPhones —
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Consumer: Square Card Case Payments
Contributed by Rick DeVan on at 9:23 am ET
Resource: Square Card Case.
Automatically pay with only your name. I have a feeling this will catch on.
Filed under Consumer
Tags used: Square, Square Card Case —
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Warning Signs of Bursting Bubble
Contributed by Rick DeVan on May 22, 2011 at 10:44 am ET
Resource: Dotcom bubble likely to burst the New Zealand Herald.
As ever, Warren Buffett puts it best. &lquou;If you’ve been playing poker for half an hour and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy,“ he says. And in bubble 2.0, just like the first dotcom boom and bust more than a decade ago, the world’s most famous investor is staying on the sidelines rather then risk being the patsy.
FYI.
Filed under Business and Commerce, Consumer, Life, Work, and Society
Tags used: Bubble, Warren Buffett —
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Spamalytics May Help Us Beat Spam
Contributed by Rick DeVan on at 10:29 am ET
Resource: Study Sees Way to Win Spam Fight via NYTimes.com.
The hope, the scientists said, was to find a “choke point” that could greatly reduce the flow of spam. And in a paper to be presented on Tuesday at the annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, Calif., they will report that they think they have found it.
Resource: Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Marketing Conversion.
Great stuff!
Filed under Business and Commerce, Consumer, Life, Work, and Society, Media
Tags used: Spam, Spamalytics —
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