Big jump in mobile payments expected, but not with NFC in U.S.
Mobile payments will reach $171 billion globally in 2012, a 62% increase over last year's total of $105.9 billion, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
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Scary times ahead for smartphone vendors, says analyst
The rest of 2012 will be very challenging for smartphone makers as they struggle to find ways to differentiate their "black slabs," Richard Kramer, managing partner at Arete Research, said during the opening address at the Open Mobile Summit conference in London.
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Soccer games vie for top honors on the iPhone, iPad
For fans of soccer--or football, on the other side of the Atlantic--the just-completed season was one for the books. Manchester City won the English Premier League in the waning moments of the season. Unheralded Montpellier took the title in France, while Juventus returned to glory in Serie A. And Chelsea took Europe's big prize, with a stirring and improbable run to Champions League glory. It's the kind of excitement you don't want to see come to an end, even with the Euro 2012 tournament set to get underway in a few weeks. And if you've got an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you don't have to let something as inconvenient as an off-season stand in the way of you and constant soccer excitement.
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Book Crawler for iPhone and iPad app
Book Crawler--a $2 app for iPhone and iPad from Jaime Sokes--is an excellent way to create and keep a database of your books, but only after you overcome the challenge of understanding how the app works.
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Dell challenges Apple with the new XPS One 27 all-in-one
Dell challenged Apple's popular iMac all-in-one with the introduction of XPS One 27, which has the largest screen in an all-in-one desktop from the company to date.
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Experts question the need for a Facebook smartphone
Mobile technology will play an important role for Facebook as it tries to find new sources of revenue, but building its own device doesn't make much sense since competition in the smartphone market continues to be very tough, according to analysts.
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Global business services net big returns
By interlocking business services, companies gain customer knowledge, efficiency and speed. The payoffs are huge, but laying the groundwork for IT standardization is no easy task.
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Japan's Softbank to offer world's first phone with radiation detection
Japan's Softbank will launch a phone with a built in radiation detector, the world's first, it said Tuesday.
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Researchers identify Stuxnet-like malware called 'Flame'
A new, highly sophisticated malware threat that was predominantly used in cyberespionage attacks against targets in the Middle East has been identified and analyzed by researchers from several security companies and organizations.
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