Friday, May 27, 2011

Google Whips Out an E-Wallet

Google Whips Out an E-Wallet

Google Whips Out an E-Wallet

Posted: 26 May 2011 12:25 PM PDT

Google officially unveiled its e-wallet Thursday in a presentation with its partners at an event in New York. Google executives demonstrated making purchases and downloading e-coupons with the e-wallet through a Google Nexus S Android smartphone. They added that eventually consumers might even store their drivers' licenses in it. The Google Wallet is secure, Google representatives said, and the NFC chip in the smartphone will only be turned on when the consumer wants to actually use the e-wallet. This is meant to prevent hackers from "sniffing" the card and stealing information.

WinPho Developers Get a Bite of the Mango

Posted: 26 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Microsoft has rolled out app development tools for Mango, the Windows Phone 7 update about which the company released details earlier this week. Registered developers can download the Mango Beta Windows Phone Developer Tools from AppHub, Casey McGee, marketing manager for Windows Phone, told TechNewsWorld. McGee declined to say how many appdevs have downloaded these tools so far, but he pointed out that the package's predecessor, Windows Phone Development Tools, have been downloaded "more than 1.5 million times."

New Mac Malware: Passwords? We Don't Need No Stinking Passwords!

Posted: 26 May 2011 08:30 AM PDT

The newest strain of malware aimed at the Mac OS X platform doesn't require a user password to install and spread, according to a warning from security company Intego. Like a similar scam that arose weeks ago, this new version of malware promises visitors of certain websites a free security scan. Unlike the older version, however, the new Mac malady installs itself without requiring the user to input an administrative password. The infection emerged just hours after Apple acknowledged a different "rogueware" application infiltrating its platform.

Where in the World Is the Linux Desktop Thriving?

Posted: 26 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

The old "market share" debate is one that's all too familiar to most Linux fans, particularly the tired -- not to mention wildly unrealistic -- "1 percent" figure detractors love to cite as desktop Linux's portion. So it was hard not to sit up and take notice earlier this month when the Pingdom blog published a post entitled "The top 20 strongholds for desktop Linux." "There are some countries where people have embraced Linux on the desktop to a greater degree than most," the post explains.
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