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Broken NFC terminals, lack of retail support stifling Apple Pay usage

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Apple Pay got off to a hot start after its debut in October, attracting 11% of all credit card-using households and converting 66% of iPhone 6 users in its first four months on the market, according to an ongoing study of more than 3,000 credit card users conducted by market research firm Phoenix Marketing International.

Although iPhone users appeared eager to try out Apple’s new mobile payment plan – the study estimates that more than 88% of those who set up an Apple Pay wallet went on to make a purchase with it either in a retail store or in a mobile app – they have run short on opportunities to use them in the time since.

“The demand is there: 59% of Apple Pay users have gone into a store and asked to make a purchase with Apple Pay,” Greg Weed, Phoenix Marketing International director of research, said in a statement. “But so is the disappointment: 47% visited a store that was listed as an Apple Pay merchant only to find out that the specific store they visited did not accept (or were not ready to accept) Apple Pay.”

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Pointer Events finalized, but Apple’s lack of support still a deal breaker

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The Pointer Events specification, an API for Web developers to handle touch, mouse, and pen inputs in Web applications, has been published as a Recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium. This is the Web standards group’s final, mutually agreed on version of the spec.

Pointer Events was first proposed by Microsoft as an alternative to another specification, Touch Events. Touch Events was born from Apple’s initial work to touch-enable Safari on the iPhone. W3C moved to standardize it without Apple’s involvement, and at one point during Touch Events’ development, it looked as if the spec would be covered by Apple-owned patents, with Apple unwilling to offer a royalty free grant for users of the spec. Had this situation continued, it would have precluded W3C from issuing the spec as a Recommendation.

Pointer Events avoided the patent issues. It was also a more general specification; while Touch Events was designed for touch and touch alone, Pointer Events allowed developers to use similar code to handle touch, stylus/pen, and mouse inputs. Pointer Events also addressed certain problems with Touch Events, such as a 300 millisecond delay before responding to taps in order to disambiguate between single and double taps.

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Cheap apps, lack of inbuilt security leaves mobile environment vulnerable … – TechRepublic

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Cheap apps, lack of inbuilt security leaves mobile environment vulnerable …
TechRepublic
A shake-up is coming to the mobile security industry, and it will happen when Google begins to secure its Android environment, David Duncan, CMO of Webroot, says. The burgeoning mobile device management (MDM) sector is living on borrowed time in its …

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Singaporeans lack mobile security awareness, only half use passwords – ZDNet

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Singaporeans lack mobile security awareness, only half use passwords
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Summary: Only 3 in 5 users in country concerned about mobile cybercrime, more care about losing contact information than invasion of privacy, Symantec survey finds.

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