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Ultrabooks introduce ‘tap-and-pay’ online shopping

Intel Corporation and credit card giant MasterCard have announced a multi-year strategic collaboration to further advance the security and consumer payment experience of online shopping. The collaboration aims to combine MasterCard’s payment processing and commerce expertise with Intel’s strengths in silicon innovation and chip-based security to provide merchants and consumers better options for a safer and simpler online checkout process on Ultrabook devices and future generations of Intel-based PCs. Additionally, the two companies are working together to optimize emerging payment technologies, such as MasterCard’s PayPass and Intel Identity Protection Technology (IPT), in order to provide a safe “tap-and-pay” feature. PayPass is a payment method that allows consumers to make purchases without swiping a card or providing a signature. Intel IPT allows consumers to use strong two-factor authentication and hardware-based display protection to provide increased online security against malware. When used with an Intel IPT-enabled reader, consumers will be able to pay for online purchases with a simple tap of their PayPass-enabled card, tag or smart phone on an Ultrabook device. “MasterCard is constantly working to improve the shopping experience for consumers and merchants,” said Ed McLaughlin, MasterCard’s chief emerging payments officer. “The collaboration with Intel will deliver enhanced security and faster checkout – with the convenience of a simple click or tap.” Internet shopping is a huge industry, and it’s only getting bigger. According to Forrester Research, online sales reached $176.2 billion (

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Google Music to download everything except Sony and Warner

Google is expected to add downloading to its cloud music service at a press conference scheduled this Wednesday. Google Music launched the unlicensed beta test version of its long-anticipated music service in May – allowing users to upload their music to the cloud and access their libraries on the go. Speaking about the service in May, Google exec Zahavah Levine said : “This is a personal storage service that doesn’t require licenses anymore than the sales of an iPod or a hard drive requires licenses. “It’s like a user making personal copies of their own music and transferring it to their iPod, but rather than a portable hard drive they have a hard drive on the cloud.” Though Google managed to circumvent licensing and launch its service anyway, adding an online music store to its service would help Google keep up with competitor music stores – Amazon and iTunes most notably – and give Android users a way to download and access their music without using up valuable storage space on their phones. According to CNET , Google has signed a licensing agreement with Universal Music, but has yet to secure deals with other industry titans Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group, and sources are reporting that relations between the search seraph and record labels remain tense. “With the widespread adoption of digital music, music has become fundamental to two things we care very much about. The mobile experience is one, and the power of the Web to improve people’s lives,” Levine said. Without licencing agreements from all the major music labels, it seems unlikely Google Music will be able to compete with Apple’s long-established music service iTunes – who launched its own fully-licensed cloud music service in May

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Yahoo! Debuts TV Widgets, with Intel

Search engine company, Yahoo!, will join Intel Corporation, in a collaborative Widget Channel, a television (TV) application framework.

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Yahoo!, Joins Online Video Community, for AOL, MSN, MySpace

NBC Universal and the News Corporation, will debut what is being touted as the largest Internet video distribution network ever assembled, with charter advertisers, including Cadbury, Schweppes, Cisco, Esurance, Intel and General Motors.

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Host Gator to Provide Search Engine Optimization Hosting

SEO Hosting, a new, enhanced hosting service for search engine optimization, will soon be unveiled by shared, dedicated and reseller web hosting firm, Host Gator, in order to allow customers to optimize web sites for search engines, through hosting on multiple C classes.

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