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A new electronic way to make payments

A new electronic way to make payments

  This news is something that we confess we had expected to hear a certain time and it is finally there: virtual credit card. Mastercard has previously raised intentions to partner with Google Wallet, not long after shelve ambitious plans for a system of payments by the partnership did not work with AT & T, T-Mobile and Verizon (The Isis [...]
Google Wallet is unveiled

Google Wallet is unveiled

  The consortium formed by Google, Citigroup and MasterCard earned reinforcements from First Data and Sprint and advances in developing its project to turn smartphones into wallets containing electronic money. The app, called Google Wallet, was demonstrated at the Google office in New York in the presence of representatives of partner companies. The [...]
Poco Pro, the smallest camera ever

Poco Pro, the smallest camera ever

Yesterday, December 22, Iain Sinclair showed that it can be considered the smallest digital camera ever made. Approaching the size of a credit card to Poco Pro surprised by the maximum resolution of 14 megapixels and supports video recording in 1080p. According to the manufacturer, the camera is ideal for those looking for a compact with great sensitivity [...]
A new way to make electronic payments

A new way to make electronic payments

The Japanese company Toppan Printing has created a new type of credit card, which uses a color screen and a built-in mini keyboard. According to the company, this way would be more accurate to use a phone to deal with mobile business transactions. The card, with 3.9 mm thick, comes with a 2.2-inch color screen and a resolution of 320 × 240, but most [...]
Blippy fails big time

Blippy fails big time

We live in the Information Age, with social networks that encourage their users to be exposed, and services increasingly intrusive able to leave until Big Brother scared. Personal preferences to the places that people frequent, one of the most daunting of recent times is the Blippy. We talked this groundbreaking network at the time of its launch. This [...]
Farm Town on Facebook faces security issues

Farm Town on Facebook faces security issues

The company Sophos, which specializes in security products for Internet users, today launched an alert to players of “Farm Town“, a popular online game made available on social network Facebook. According to Graham Cluley, a security expert at Sophos, game users are getting fake security warnings in an attempt to trick the unwary to install [...]
Monopoly Boards Go Circular

Monopoly Boards Go Circular

Monopoly is celebrating its 75th anniversary, wow! I never thought Monopoly was so old already. No wonder the game has been so popular in my family since three generations long. This year Monopoly is introducing a certain changes in the game (not the rules of the game though). Instead of the square board, it will be a circular board. The cash currency [...]
Paypal is moving to Brazil

Paypal is moving to Brazil

PayPal is the largest “intermediary payment” service in the world. For those who do not know, works like this: you create a PayPal account (usually associated with a credit card) and when you do some shopping online, instead of passing your bank details to any vendor that you may not know, you use PayPal as an intermediary and thus completes [...]
An MP3 Player That Looks Like A Credit Card

An MP3 Player That Looks Like A Credit Card

MP3 players in various shapes and sizes have been made and enjoyed even today. Some have even been as big or small as credit-cards but the newest kid (please read ‘model’) on the block actually masquerades as a credit card complete with the typical pattern and numbers. It has an ultra-thin fusilage and can be worn around the neck. We hear, [...]