The specs of the new mobile operating system release from Apple Wednesday (Sept. 17) disclose 53 security vulnerabilities—all supposedly fixed—including some that would have allowed “an attacker to execute code on the device with root privileges,” ZDNet is reporting. Get the Full Story Complete the...
Amazon has now started a trial of allowing shoppers to purchase apps and to make in-app purchases within Amazon’s app store and to then have those charges appear on their phone bills. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
One of the UK's fastest growing companies, Leeds-based Pharmacy2U, has seen its transaction volumes rise considerably, and it expects the trend to continue as online orders grow. So it needed a business-management software system to could accommodate a lot of activity and the nuances of...
The Amazon Audible unit lets shoppers sign up using fake payment card data, fake E-mail addresses and fake names and then permits them to download lots of audio books before it even tries to verify the payment credentials, according to a report in Gizmodo. Even...
Analyst firm Gartner has issued a report predicting that 75 percent of mobile apps, by next year, will flunk even most rudimentary of security requirements. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content...
The Chinese Academy of Sciences has endorsed an E-Commerce biometric authentication program based on the shopper transmitting a selfie. Dubbed “face swapping,” officials described a system that “can detect a face in only a few seconds and the accuracy rate is 99.8 percent. According to...
Apple recently approached Square about becoming part of the Apple family, but talks ended abruptly when Apple was only willing to pay $3 billion, which is half of the company’s current valuation, according to a report in TechCrunch. Get the Full Story Complete the form...
McDonald’s Chief Digital Officer Atif Rafiq was talking with a reporter last week about how “seamless” and easy McDonald’s will incorporate ApplePay, which makes sense given how the chain has been accepting contactless payments for years. (We didn’t say that they had accepted a lot of...
With soaring mobile purchases in China as a backdrop, American Express and China Mobile (China’s largest telecom) to jointly support an NFC mobile payment system Hebao, which had previously been known simply as Phone Wallet. According to a report in Want China Times, the service...
