Two approaches to NFC battle for French hearts and mobiles
Two competing approaches to equipping mobile phones with contactless communications capabilities vied for supporters at the Cartes exhibition in Paris this week. Either approach could turn phones into self-service electronic tour guides, travel tickets or secure payment terminals.
Twitter turns on geolocation functionality
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Good vibes for Microsoft 'point-and-click cloud computing'
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Write-once, run-anywhere dream fades as platforms grow
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Benioff trumpets Force.com platform's success
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Two approaches to NFC battle for French hearts and mobiles
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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