With a wave of your iPhone 6 or the soon-to-be-released Apple Watch, you can buy groceries or fill up your gas tank at Meijer…
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Feeling the heat, MCX CurrentC consortium suggests possible future switch to NFC
The movement to boycott merchants who are members of the MCX consortium…
Analyst: CurrentC retailers likely to blink and support Apple Pay
Looking at 2013 sales from the top 100 U.S. retailers…
Why CurrentC will beat out Apple Pay in the end
By all accounts, Apple Pay is the smoothest, most technically advanced payment solution…
How to punish Walmart, CVS, Rite Aid, and others who block Apple Pay
Beyond simply refusing to shop in their stores, if you find yourself in a store you didn’t know was blocking Apple Pay…
Apple and Alibaba: A dream matchup and potential nightmare for Amazon?
Will Apple Inc. and Alibaba…
iPhone users and Android settlers raid reviews of CurrentC payments app
Many retailers have been less than responsive to the Apple Pay…
Retailer-backed MCX Apple Pay rival has already been hacked; testers’ email addresses stolen
MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange), the coalition of retailers including Walmart, Best Buy, Gap and others, has been hacked…
CurrentC retailers’ conundrum: MCX contract expressly bars Apple Pay acceptance
One week after its debut, Apple’s new mobile wallet is showing promise…
Retailers like CVS and Rite Aid that block Apple Pay are taking a big security risk
Apple wants to make it easier for people to use their iPhones to pay…
Apple Pay tussle with CVS, Rite Aid the first shot in mobile payments war
Boycott CVS and Rite Aid and any other company that willfully turns off NFC in a effort to block the vastly more secure, much more private, and far easier-to-use Apple Pay service…
Apple-Alibaba partnership could transform electronic payments
Boycott CVS and Rite Aid and any other company that willfully turns off NFC in a effort to block the vastly more secure, much more private, and far easier-to-use Apple Pay service…
In one week, Apple Pay already No. 1; used more than all other mobile payment systems combined
“We’re already No. 1,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Alibaba’s Jack Ma says open to working with Apple on Apple Pay
Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. executive chairman Jack Ma said he’s open to working with Apple Inc…
Tim Cook blasts CVS, Rite Aid over Apple Pay blockade: ‘You only are relevant if your customers love you’
Boycott CVS and Rite Aid and any other company that willfully turns off NFC in a effort to block the vastly more secure, much more private, and far easier-to-use Apple Pay service…
Wells Fargo offers up to $20 to iPhone 6/Plus users who try Apple Pay
Banks are putting their weight behind Apple’s Appel Pay solution…
Vantiv and VeriFone launch campaign to ensure merchants are ready for Apple Pay
The future is now…
Boycott CVS and Rite Aid
Boycott CVS and Rite Aid and any other company that willfully turns off NFC in a effort to block the vastly more secure, much more private, and far easier-to-use Apple Pay service…
Bad business: CVS and Rite Aid antagonize their most well-heeled customers by blocking Apple Pay
Boycott CVS and Rite Aid…
Edward Snowden’s privacy tips: ‘Get rid of Dropbox,” avoid Facebook and Google
According to Edward Snowden, people who care about their privacy should stay away from Google, Facebook, and Dropbox…
The Apple iOS backdoor that wasn’t
Last weekend, a hacker who’s been campaigning to make a point about Apple security…
Apple responds to allegations of iOS ‘backdoor’
Information security has never been a more sensitive subject…
Forensic scientist claims suspicious ‘back doors’ running on every iOS device
Forensic scientist and author Jonathan Zdziarski…
U.S. Supreme Court ruling leaves Google open to lawsuits over Street View secretly collected personal data
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Google Inc…
Just kidding, says Nest, we are totally sharing your data with Google
Google is connecting its apps to the Nest…
The revolution hidden in Apple’s HealthKit
The secret sauce in Apple’s new HealthKit offering…
Cook, Zuckerberg, Mayer, other tech CEOs ask U.S. Senate to restrict U.S. spying
A group of prominent technology company CEOs, including the most prominent, Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Half of U.S. adults hacked this year
Hackers have exposed the personal information of 110 million Americans…
Tim Cook likely to be asked to testify at NSA case in Germany
German lawmakers may call the heads of the largest U.S. technology companies…
How the NSA tapped AT&T’s network
In 2002, an AT&T technician named Mark Klein discovered that the National Security Agency had installed a secret monitoring facility…
U.S. House passes bill to curb NSA data collection programs
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to curb some National Security Agency powers…
U.S. House passes bill to curb NSA’s data collection programs; Apple opposes over ‘unacceptable loophole ‘
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to curb some National Security Agency powers…
Apple to government authorities: ‘Show warrant to get data’
Apple will let its customers know if a government or law enforcement agency has requested information…
Apple, others to defy U.S. government authorities, notify customers of secret data demands
U.S. tech companies will ignore the instructions stamped on the fronts of subpoenas…
As U.S. government discusses expanding digital searches, ACLU sounds caution
Late last month, we reported on new federal efforts to gain an expanded ability…
Obama to meet again with tech CEOs about NSA spying
Top executives from Facebook, Google and other tech giants will…
Apple co-founder Woz and Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee voice support for Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee…
US NSA used Facebook to hack into computers
The National Security Agency is breaking into…
Rand Paul: ‘What you do on your cellphone is none of their damned business!’
Paul put his concerns about the NSA on front pages with a class-action lawsuit…
Orwellian: UK government, with aid from US NSA, intercepted webcam images from millions of users
Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency…
Twitter threatens to sue Obama administration over government surveillance requests
Twitter says it is prepared to sue the Obama administration…
Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
A Norwegian member of parliament nominated former U.S. National Security Agency…
