Innovations
HubSpot Offers Free Guide to Google + For Business
Yes, you do have to register and give up your name, rank and serial number – but trust us, it is worth it this time. HubSpot, one of our favorite websites for all thing new, social and otherwise, is giving away their new eBook: How to Use Google+ for Business (registration required). Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock lately, you have probably heard of the new Google + social network. The big news, though, is that on November 7, Google+ opened its doors to companies, allowing them to build business pages and encouraging them to increase their following. With HubSpot’s new guide you will learn: How to set up [...]
Shop At WalMart – Pay By iPhone?
In the not too distant future -Walmart shoppers with an iPhone 4 or 4S may be able to purchase selected products by simply scanning the barcode, entering their Apple ID, and heading out the door with their new purchase. But according to Walmart’s senior vice president of global e-commerce and head of Walmart Labs, Venky Harinarayan, the issue with setting up such a feature is not technology but the user experience. “Yes, you can do this….What we’ve got to figure out is, how do you make that customer experience something really worthwhile,” Harinarayan said. The same is true of other new technologies. “These are not technology problems, they are customer [...]
UseMyServices Partners With SafetyPay For Mutual Network Expansion
Co-Operative Agreement For Real Time Bank Payments Through 100+ Global Banks Toronto, ON OCT 9, 2011 – A new co-operative agreement was announced today between two global payment technology firms, Toronto-based UseMyServices, and Miami-based SafetyPay. The new venture will significantly expand the international reach of both firms, giving each company access to more than 100 banks and financial institutions, across 20 countries. The agreement will make real time bank payment services available to more than half a billion online banking customers worldwide. “Partnering with UseMyServices makes total strategic sense in SafetyPay’s continual international expansion efforts,” said Manuel Montero, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SafetyPay. “We look forward to expanding [...]
AT&T Partners With doxo For Online Bill Payment
Billed as an ‘online file cabinet’, doxo, backed by Jeff Bezos‘ Bezos Expeditions, Mohr Davidow Ventures and Sigma Partners, has announced that AT&T, will agree to send bills electronically to consumers via doxo. This will allow AT&T’s 100 million subscribers to pay their bill electronically via doxo. While doxo is free for the consumer, there is a small fee to the biller, although it is less than the cost associated with mailing a paper bill. Doxo hopes to be an all-in-one ‘file cabinet’ to securely store important documents but in a digital format, and has recently added the new bill payment service, doxoPAY. A key feature is the mobile app that [...]
New Data Theft Tool Cloud Penetrator Released By SecPoint
SecPoint has rolled out a new service known as the Cloud Penetrator, to provide Online Web Vulnerability Scanning as well as SQL Injection Cross Site Scripting which prevents data theft. The Denver-based security systems provide recently unveiled this new service. Cloud Pentrator will scan websites, database servers and routers. It even has the capability to scan Content Management Systems such as WordPress for SQL Injection and other web vulnerabilities. The service provides detailed PDF reports which include solutions to fix any vulnerabilities that have been found. The service is useful for companies which have heavy concerns about data security while outsourcing their websites and e-commerce sections to cloud providers. SecPoint [...]
EMV Token Manager Service Offered By Bell ID
Bell ID, a company based in the Netherlands, has recently brought out its EMV Token Manager service. This new service is an online service that handles the management of any type or combination of EMV token deployment. It includes contact, contact-less as well as dual interface cards. In addition to this, the Bell ID EMV Token Manager service is also ready to support contact-less apps in mobile phones which have support for NFC technology. This new service is baed on the ANDiS4 EMV smart card management system developed by the company, and it handles all the life cycles of an EMV token. It is compliant with several standards including PCI [...]

