Roundup: Android to have payment platform, Chrome considered a security risk, a hobbled Chinese iPhone, and more
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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… Continue Reading
DaCast offers peer-to-peer video streaming broadcasts
We can all watch live video broadcasts on the internet thanks to content delivery networks (CDNs), which set up strategic points online where they can send streams of videos to internet users as efficiently as possible without clogging up the entire web.
But Andolis, a San Francisco startup with French roots, hopes to disrupt that business with a product called DaCast. It uses technology that can do the same thing as CDNs much more efficiently and… Continue Reading