Samsung’s mobile payment solution, Samsung Pay, has launched in Australia with American Express and Citibank. If you’re a Amex or Citibank customer, or want to become one, you can now use those institutions’ cards with compatible Samsung smartphones and its new mobile payments system. That system is called Samsung Pay, and is clearly being billed…
Even Mark Zuckerberg has a crap password. What hope have we mere mortals? Chances are, you’re using the same password for multiple online accounts — or maybe recycling two or three that are easy to remember. You’re only human, and even superhumans are known to commit grave password crimes. This week Facebook chief executive Mark…
Although many would already be well aware that today’s spam can be far more dangerous that just a dodgy Viagra pill and could infect your computer, ESET has issued a new warning. Spam, says the Internet security firm, is “not simply emails, but messages received on instant messaging services, social networks and SMS”, and they…
Social media platform Instagram has introduced further changes which strengthen its position as a marketing platform for businesses, by introducing business profiles, insights and promotion tools. The over 200,000 advertisers now on Instagram will have the new ability to generate: Business profiles Business profiles allow businesses to quickly signal to people on Instagram that it…
Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends presentation covers everything from growing online engagement in the developing world to data storage, electric cars, voice recognition and the re-imagining of human-computer interfaces. Here we cover some of the top trends in advertising and branding from the 2016 report. Venture capitalist and former Wall Street analyst Mary Meeker delivered…
It’s saying something that the most exciting announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote this year might well have been the news that Apple TV owners will soon be able to control YouTube with their voice, telling their TV to “Search YouTube for cute pug videos”. It says two things: it says that voice control…
Microsoft and LinkedIn have entered into an agreement which will see Microsoft acquire LinkedIn for US $26.2 billion in a move that will combine two complementary data sets. Microsoft and LinkedIn have announced an agreement which will see Microsoft acquire LinkedIn for US$196 a share, totalling US$26.2 billion. Jeff Wiener, CEO of LinkedIn (above, left),…
A FEW lucky Aussies already have National Broadband at their fingertips. The rest of us are waiting. Waiting for downloads, waiting to stream ABC iView, waiting for our Skype connections to stop being so jerky. This election the question to ask when you’re voting is this: Will we get “fibre” all the way to our…
A new survey suggests consumers need to give more thought to the security implications of connected devices. Norton by Symantec surveyed more than 5000 consumers from Australia, the US, UK, Canada and Japan about their fears concerning the “connected world” and the Internet of Things. The use of mobile apps to control connected devices is…
If you have accounts online with any of the following sites, I’d recommend you jump onto this site and see if your email address has been breached. Recent breaches inlude Snapchat and Linkedin, the top 10 breaches include: Top 10 breaches MySpace logo 359,420,698 MySpace accounts LinkedIn logo 164,611,595 LinkedIn accounts Adobe logo 152,445,165 Adobe…
