Earlier this week it was reported that Apple Pay – Apple’s burgeoning contactless payment system – has already been hit by nefarious individuals looking to take advantage of a process that was touted for its high level of security. It seems that industrious fraudsters have discovered a way to use stolen credit card numbers and personal information […]
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NFC, or Near Field Communications, is a contactless technology used on mobile gadgets so that they can communicate with other electronic devices. Last year, the hype surrounding NFC was high, especially with Samsung integrating the technology in their phones. Apple has not made any moves toward using NFC on the iPhones, and that has led […]
Apple iBeacon: Cool or Creepy?
This past Friday Apple enabled location-aware transmitters in all of their U.S. retail stores. Called iBeacon, this service works via Bluetooth and the Apple Store App for the iPhone to get location-based information when arriving at one of their stores. The iBeacon system is far more precise than GPS-based methods for finding exactly where someone […]
