Dilbert readers – Please visit Dilbert.com to read this feature. Due to changes with our feeds, we are now making this RSS feed a link to Dilbert.com.
Alibaba teams up with Huawei to let Alipay Wallet users pay with just their fingerprint
Sep02
on September 2, 2014
at 4:22 am
As Chinese internet giants are fighting to own people on mobile payment, Alibaba has announced a way to make its payments service Alipay even more secure on a smartphone — with the introduction of fingerprinting technology in a deal that it inked with smartphone manufacturer Huawei. Alipay Wallet, the e-payment app relaunched last year to handle online-to-offline payments, will be integrated into Huawei’s soon-to-be-launched smartphone, the Mate 7, which boasts biometric security technology. Other than a fingerprint reader, the technology includes encryption and authentication managed by Huawei. This means that instead of entering passwords and codes, all that users have to do now…
This story continues at The Next Web
The post Alibaba teams up with Huawei to let Alipay Wallet users pay with just their fingerprint appeared first on The Next Web.
Alibaba teams up with Huawei to let Alipay Wallet users pay with just their fingerprint
Sep02
on September 2, 2014
at 4:22 am
As Chinese internet giants are fighting to own people on mobile payment, Alibaba has announced a way to make its payments service Alipay even more secure on a smartphone — with the introduction of fingerprinting technology in a deal that it inked with smartphone manufacturer Huawei. Alipay Wallet, the e-payment app relaunched last year to handle online-to-offline payments, will be integrated into Huawei’s soon-to-be-launched smartphone, the Mate 7, which boasts biometric security technology. Other than a fingerprint reader, the technology includes encryption and authentication managed by Huawei. This means that instead of entering passwords and codes, all that users have to do now…
This story continues at The Next Web
The post Alibaba teams up with Huawei to let Alipay Wallet users pay with just their fingerprint appeared first on The Next Web.
This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. Sarah Maloy is Shutterstock’s content marketing manager. She’s also an entertainment writer, social-media nerd, and chronic binge-watcher. We look at so many gorgeous images every day that it takes something really unique to make us stop and say, “Whoa.” For me, that “wow” moment came while exploring images of sharks (because of Shark Week, of course), when I came across a series of larger-than-life waves by Zacarias Pereira da Mata. The Portuguese photographer is just one of many who document the beauty of the ocean, capturing terrifying-but-fascinating images of…
This story continues at The Next Web
The post Wild waves: 14 photos of the ocean overtaking the Earth appeared first on The Next Web.
Plane Finder for iOS now lets you replay global air traffic movements all the way back to 2011
Sep01
Plane Finder is a popular app for tracking flights around the world in real-time. Want to know where the plane that just flew over you was heading? Plane Finder has you covered. However, an interesting feature has been introduced for version 7.3.0 (iPhone/iPad) – it now lets you replay historical flights, going all the way back to April 2011. While Plane Finder is generally reserved for serious plane geekery, it could actually be interesting to look at how major events such as hurricanes or volcanic ash clouds impacted flights as the planes moved (or not) around the world. Or, you…
This story continues at The Next Web
The post Plane Finder for iOS now lets you replay global air traffic movements all the way back to 2011 appeared first on The Next Web.