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• Samsung follows Apple into Chinese mobile payment market

  20-02-2016 20:02
  
  Days after Apple extended its mobile payment service to China, Samsung Electronics has said it will follow suit.Samsung Pay, already available in the U.S. and South Korea, and will open in China next month. It will open for business in the U.K., Australia, Brazil, Singapore and Spain later this year, with Canada to follow at a later stage, Samsung said Saturday.Apple Pay is available in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and, since Thursday, China.Samsung's payment service has about five million
  
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• Microsoft's Plumbago app promises to make your chickenscratch legible

  20-02-2016 19:36
  
  In concept, it sounds useful: a Microsoft Garage app that promises to smooth, or “beautify,” your handwriting when you take notes on a Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 tablet, such as the Microsoft Surface. Unfortunately, Plumbago’s smoothing feature doesn’t seem to work, yet.
  Think of Plumbago as a stripped-down version of OneNote, with an emphasis on easy doodling and adding art. (Mary Jo Foley made the analogy that Plumbago is to OneNote as Sway is to Word, which isn’t
  
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• Apple says terrorist's iCloud password was changed remotely while iPhone was in government's posession

  20-02-2016 19:33
  
  In the latest development, Apple is claiming that the government inadvertently jeopardized the FBI’s investigation into the San Bernardino terrorist attack.[ Related: Why Apple is right to fight FBI over iPhone access ]Senior Apple execs told reporters on Friday that the iCloud password linked to Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone 5c was changed less than 24 hours after federal investigators took possession of the phone. ABC News confirmed that the password was changed remotely by an IT emp
  
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• Overcoming 5 major supply chain challenges with big data analytics

  20-02-2016 19:32
  
  Sixty-four percent of supply chain executives consider big data analytics a disruptive and important technology, setting the foundation for long-term change management in their organizations (Source: SCM World). Ninety-seven percent of supply chain executives report having an understanding of how big data analytics can benefit their supply chain. But, only 17 percent report having already implemented analytics in one or more supply chain functions (Source: Accenture).
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• Never search for parking again with this concept from Samsung, Seat and SAP

  20-02-2016 19:18
  
  Driving around looking for a parking spot becomes a thing of the past in a new concept developed by Samsung, Spanish automaker Seat and SAP.The three envision drivers in the future calling up a map of a car park on a smartphone app, then selecting, reserving and paying for an available space from their phones. When they get to the car park, they can drive right up and park without any fuss.The concept will be on show at this week's Mobile World Congress expo in Barcelona, which is close to the h
  
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• DOJ ends probe of utility over IT replacements; no charges filed

  20-02-2016 13:13
  
  The U.S. Dept. of Justice has ended its investigation into Southern California Edison over its replacement of IT workers, a utility executive said in a memo sent Friday to employees.
  "I wanted to pass along some good news," said Pedro Pizarro, SCE president, in the email. "The Department of Justice's investigation into whether SCE discriminated against American workers in its IT outsourcing practices has closed with no adverse findings against the company," wrote Pizarro.
  About 500 IT workers a
  
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