Roundup: Android to have payment platform, Chrome considered a security risk, a hobbled Chinese iPhone, and more

September 26, 2008 | Chris Morrison | Comments | |

Here’s the latest action:

Visa to team up with Google for mobile payment platform — Credit card giant Visa will make a mobile payment application for Google’s mobile platform, Android. The app may also include location-based services to help you find where to rack up more credit card debt.

Is Google Chrome a security risk? – Experts have yet to weigh in, for the most part, but ZDNet suggests that some companies already consider the new web browser risky.

China Mobile requests a well censored iPhone — Chinese carrier China Mobile has asked Apple for a stripped-down iPhone, without WiFi or 3G web access, in order to keep users from fleeing to its competitor.

Book tells all about Harvard Business School — Ahead of the Curve, a book by a Harvard graduate, may be of interest to potential attendees: Its author calls Harvard Business School a “factory for unhappy people”. PeHub has a good review, including an excerpted account of venture capitalist Tim Draper trying to get a humorless HBS class to sing.

The future of computing — Microsoft chief researcher Craig Mundie “envisioned a 3D virtual world populated by virtual presences, using a combination of client and cloud services,” at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference. CNET’s Dan Farber has much more.

Angry workers kill Indian CEO — A mob of workers attacked and killed the Indian CEO of Graziano Transmission after they were laid off this week, shocking the country and aptly proving why American execs prefer to do their layoffs from a boardroom.

Vindigo finally joins the deadpool — Mobile content company Vindigo, which was founded almost a decade ago to make supply guides for the Palm, and which survived the web bubble, has finally been shuttered by its Japanese owner, For-Side.

SolFocus opens a plant in Spain — The concentrating photovoltaics company has proven itself by completing a 500 kilowatt installation and now has its eyes on California.

Content delivery network Abacast buys Tukati — Combined, Abacast and Tukati will offer streaming, on-demand and progressive download video, games, push delivery and software distribution.

Enterasys CEO suddenly passes away — Michael Fabiaschi, the chief executive of networking equipment maker Enterasys, died suddenly in his home at age 53. The chairman is acting as a stand-in.

Pay attention to the road – California has outlawed texting while driving.

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Chris Morrison writes about cleantech and environmental issues for VentureBeat, with occasional forays into gaming and semantic technology. He got his start writing about tech for Business 2.0 magazine, but quickly realized new media was the ticket when that institution closed its doors in 2007. Chris has also covered public equities and regulatory issues. He originally hails from southern Virginia, graduated from Evergreen State College in Washington, and now lives in San Francisco.

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    Wow, getting killed for laying off workers. That's socialism for you. These people believe they are entitled a job. People need to learn how to manage their money and not let the government or company do it for them. I hate laws that require employers to do this and that. People are not kids. They are smart enough to deal with their own finance.
  • Hi Chris, I believe the link in the article "Angry workers kill Indian CEO " is broken. Keep up the good summaries. Favorite article of the day usually.