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PayPal Adds NFC Support: Just Tap Phones to Send Money
Jul 13th
Today at the MobileBeat 2011 conference, payments leader PayPal announced it would support NFC (near field communications) on mobile as a new way to both shop and pay. The company demonstrated its solution in the form of a new NFC-enabled Android widget that lets people send payments just by tapping two phones together.
The widget will arrive later this summer, the company said.
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NFC is an up-and-coming technology that allows for data exchanges over short distances. It forms the basis of mobile wallet solutions like Google Wallet and Visa’s digital wallet, for example, which aim to replace leather-bound bill holders with nothing but a mobile phone. Everyone from Google to the banks to the credit card companies to the carriers themselves, are involved in developing NFC solutions for their customers these days, although very few programs have officially launched as of yet.
It’s no surprise then, that PayPal is joining in with its own implementation of NFC. As a top provider in the payments space, it had no choice but to participate in this emerging trend.
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The application itself looks great. In the demo (see the video here), a PayPal user can either send money or receive money using the widget. After one person initiates the request, both people just tap their phones together until they buzz. That means the data transfer is complete. However, for security purposes, users do have to complete the transaction with the entry of a PIN or password.
It’s a lot like how the contact sharing mobile app Bump works, except that the underlying technology is different. Bump uses sensors on both iPhones and Android, while NFC requires the use of a special chip in the phone itself, something that’s still somewhat a rarity on today’s smartphones. Today’s demo involved Samsung’s Nexus S, but other NFC phones are on their way, including the upcoming BlackBerry Bold (9900/9930) devices, Nokia’s Astound, variants of the Samsung Galaxy S II and others.
Recently, PayPal made another acquisition aimed at bolstering its mobile presence: Zong, a mobile payments company that specialized in carrier billing. Zong enabled end users to pay for digital items like virtual goods and in-app purchases, by having those items charged to their phone bill. NFC, however, is more often associated with paying for physical goods – like store-bought items from a local retailer. By attacking on both fronts – virtual and physical – it’s clear that PayPal is aiming to retain its place among the top payments companies even as the technologies surrounding payments around are revolutionized by the mobile platform.
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Could Google Suggest Be Used to Send Coded Messages?
Jun 24th
Google Suggest could be used to transmit secret messages in plain site. That’s the message from a stenography specialist at the Warsaw University of Technology. Wojciech Mazurczyk investigates methods by which spies and terrorists might try to sen…
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Jun 13th
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Facebook Announces “Send” Button: A “Like” With Context
Apr 25th
Over the past year, we’ve become accustomed to using Facebook’s "Like" button for a variety of reasons – to show approval, to agree with a sentiment, to follow a brand and to share content. For this last function, however, the "Like" button can be a bit of a blunt tool when what’s really needed is a precision instrument.
Today, Facebook announced the "Send" button. By using "Send," Facebook users will be able to share content with specific groups of friends, rather than everyone on their friends list, giving them the precision sharing tool they’ve needed all along.
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The Facebook "Send" button launches today with 50 partner sites and will likely be implemented by more site quickly. Most often, it will likely accompany the "Like" button and allows users to share content with their friends by email, Facebook message, or as a post to a Group’s wall.
A year ago, we launched the Like button, which gives you a quick way to share the things you find on the web with all your friends. But there are times when you find something that you only want to share with a few specific people.
Say you’re on Orbitz and want to tell your roommates about a great idea for a summer vacation, or you come across a Huffington Post article that you only want to share with people at work. With the new Send button, now you can share things with any of your Groups or individual friends on Facebook.
As noted, Facebook’s "Like" button just celebrated its first birthday last week. In the last year, the button has been integrated on more than 2.5 million websites, with 10,000 new websites adding the button daily. Will the "Share" button, which is integrated similarly with a few lines of code, share in the "Like" button’s popularity? Facebook notes that Groups, which launched just six months ago, now number well over 50 million. The ability to direct your content sharing on Facebook from third-party sites could certainly boost the popularity of Groups and catapult the popularity of a "Send" button, despite the simple, no-hassle, easy to understand functionality of the "Like" button.
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GiftRocket: Send a Gift Card to Anyone, Anywhere
Apr 13th
On one hand, I’m a big fan of the gift card. I never know what to buy people, and so gift cards always seem like a good option. On the other hand, gift cards are frustrating in their own right, particularly if I want to get a gift card to a particular local business and not just a major chain. A lot of sites don’t offer gift cards, and if they do, you have to actually go into the shop to purchase one – that’s a pain when your family is spread all over the country. And it’s a pain for recipients to have to keep track of little gift certificates or plastic cards.
Thankfully, GIftRocket has rebooted the whole process, with a really innovative solution that should please merchants, gift-givers, and recipients alike.
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GiftRocket works a peer-to-peer gift card, bypassing the merchant entirely. You can send a gift card via the startup’s website. It uses Yelp as its directory of merchants, so you can create a gift card to use any store, restaurant, bar, hotel, and so on that’s listed in that database. (That’s pretty much every business.)
The recipient of the card will receive a message notifying them of the gift, and when they arrive at the location, they can follow the link in the email, allow their phone to confirm their geo-location, and presto – the money is transferred to them, via PayPal.
Sending and receiving a gift via GiftRocket is incredibly easy, and ease-of-use is one of the main things that the company is trying to address. But there are other benefits too: there’s no card or certificate to carry around; there’s no leftover change on the card; there’s no expiration date.
There is, however, a fee to send a card this way – $1 plus 5% of the total of the card. The works out to $2 for a $20 gift card. While most “traditional” gift cards are free, it’s worth paying a little bit extra in order to have the convenience of GiftRocket and the completely open selection of merchants where cards can be redeemed.
Giftrocket thinks this will be a boon for small businesses too, most of which don’t have gift card programs. Those can cost businesses a significant amount of money, and since Giftrocket actually doesn’t require merchants’ participation, there are no set-up fees. There’s just a snippet of code that, should they decide to do so, businesses can add to their websites to let customers know that their gift cards are “Powered by GiftRocket.”
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Lockify: How to Securely Send Information Without the Pain of PGP
Feb 24th
Have you ever sent a credit card number, bank account info, password or other sensitive information by email and felt that familiar sense of apprehension as you clicked on the “Send” button? If you have, then it was for good cause. Information like this could be intercepted in any number of ways, from packet sniffing to someone other than your intended recipient on the other end accessing that email account.
Lockify, a so-called Bit.ly or Twitter for secure communication, gives users a quick and simple way to send sensitive information over the Internet while making sure it gets where it needs to without being seen by anyone in-between.
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The company presented at the LAUNCH conference today and showed off the simple security solution, wowing the judges across the board. Sure, you could use something like PGP, but this requires both users on both ends to be clued-in on how to do that. To say the very least, that’s not common.
Lockify breaks it down simply – enter a message to be encrypted and then set a level of security. You can ask a question you think only the person on the other end would know, require that person to log into Gmail (if they have a Gmail account) to authenticate or even authenticate using their phone. By entering their phone number, they will get an SMS with a code to open the encrypted message.
After you set the encryption, you’re given a short URL. This URL can be sent as a link in chat, email or by Facebook message directly from the Lockify page. Beyond that, Lockify provides an API, so this service can be directly integrated into other services, making security simple for third-party integration.
Lockify is currently launching in private beta, so you can sign up to try the service out by providing an email. The company says that it plans on going beyond the standard text-based messaging in the near future, with encrypted files. It also plans on releasing a “LockifyMe” feature for companies looking to receive encrypted information from their customers.
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