Thursday, February 27, 2014

drag2share: Moov Might Be the Most Advanced Fitness Wearable Yet

Source: http://gizmodo.com/moov-might-be-the-most-advanced-fitness-wearable-yet-1532244558

Moov Might Be the Most Advanced Fitness Wearable Yet

As you may have noticed, there are a million activity trackers out there right now. Most of them are glorified pedometers. The upper tier add altimeters, heart rate monitors, and sleep-tracking to the equation. But what if you don't just want to be reminded to work out—you want to work out better, safer, and more efficiently? Moov might just be the AI coach you've been hoping for.

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drag2share: Over 50% Of US Payment Terminals Will Accept New 'Chip-And-Pin' Credit Cards By 2015 [CHART]

source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/businessinsider/~3/zzY1v4_xBno/over-50-of-us-payment-terminals-will-take-chip-and-pin-credit-cards-by-2015-2-2014-2

U.S. merchants will upgrade to a new chip-and-PIN credit card standard fairly quickly as they race to meet a 2015 deadline set by MasterCard and Visa. 

Over half of terminals will accept chip-and-PIN cards by the end of 2015, according to BI Intelligence estimates, based on Aite Group data. 

  • The number of active EMV terminals will rise from 1.5 million in 2013, to 12.4 million by 2017. 
  • That means that EMV penetration of checkout systems will increase from 14% in 2014 to 87% by 2017. 

MasterCard and Visa have set a 2015 deadline for when credit cards will have to phase out the old authorization process based on "swipe-and-sign," and switch to the more secure, European-style "chip-and-PIN" system, which requires credit cards to carry a special chip, and customers to enter a PIN number instead of signing. This system is known as EMV, which stands for Europay, MasterCard, and Visa — since they originated the standard.

At BI Intelligence, Business Insider's paid subscription service, we have been tracking the payments and credit card industries — including EMV, mobile payments, and cyber currencies — in our dai! ly charts, exclusive to subscribers. We published our insights in a recent report, "How Tech- And Mobile-Centric Players Are Transforming The Credit Card Processing Industry."

Subscribers gain instant access to scores of in-depth reports and hundreds of charts and datasets on mobile, e-commerce, and their impact across industries, including banking and retail. 

Chip And Pin Penetration

EMV is a payment card security standard that is meant to reduce fraud at bricks-and-mortar stores, and generally makes payment cards much more difficult to clone for fraudulent transactions. The back-end technology is also more secure. 

The EMV standard is already in place in the U.K. and Western Europe. MasterCard and Visa are pushing more aggressively for its adoption in the U.S.

After the 2015 deadline, banks and merchants will gradually face increased fraud liability on the old "swipe-and-sign" cards which carry a magnetic strip.

In full, our research shows that: 

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Posted by Augustine at 11:48 AM

Article: Google's Project Ara could go on sale next year for $50

Google's Project Ara modular smartphones could arrive early next year for as low as $50, reports Time. The company's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group — which is developing the project to make smartphones composed of small, swappable pieces of hardware — reportedly plans to finish a f...

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/27/5452770/project-ara-smartphone-release-date-price-google-estimate

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Posted by Augustine at 10:42 AM

Article: Marvell announces 64-bit Armada PXA 1928 SoC

0 by Andrew Grush on February 27, 2014 10:03 am 0 MWC 2014 Coverage brought to you by: Bitdefender Mobile Security & Antivirus for Android. At MWC 2014 we saw several chip makers unveil 64-bit SoCs including Mediatek, Qualcomm and Intel. Marvell also has something of the 64-bit variety to show us...

http://www.androidauthority.com/marvell-pxa-1928-352086/

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Posted by Augustine at 10:41 AM

drag2share: Google+ for Android learns even more photo editing tricks from Snapseed

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/27/google-plus-android-app-snapseed/

Google+ has been taking cues from Snapseed ever since the company snapped up the app, and this refresh for Android is no different. The update introduces tools like crop, rotate and one-touch filters. It also comes with Snapseed-like enhancements, including HDR Scape, which made its debut on the web interface early this month.

While the update brings these familiar features onboard, you'll also come across something entirely new: "non-destructive editing in the cloud," which gives you the power to edit photos on one device and pick up where you left off on another. Finally, you can now see every photo you've saved on the device and in the cloud (arranged by date) on the new All tab. Since people upload more than a billion images a week on Google+, this definitely won't be the last photo editor upgrade you'll see. We just hope whatever the social network comes up with in the future is a lot better -- and a lot less cheesy -- than its Valentine's Day stunt.

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