Samsung Pay - Overview Samsung introduces Samsung Pay as "a groundbreaking Mobile Payment Service" and it allows you to make contactless payments in stores. It uses a combination of Near Field Communication (NFC) and its own proprietary Magnetic Secure Transmission technology. Samsung Pay - Technology Uses Contactless payment technology Unique [...]
Android Pay - Overview Google bills Android Pay as "Pay your way. Shop how you want" and it allows you to make payments both in stores and in apps, similar to Apple Pay. It uses a combination of Near Field Communication (NFC), plus one of a PIN code, password [...]
Apple Pay - Overview Apple bills Apple Pay as "Your wallet. Without the wallet." and it allows you to make payments both in stores and in apps. It uses a combination of Near Field Communication (NFC), Touch ID and the Passbook app to enable the payments [...]
Apple announces OS X El Capitan | from The Verge #OSX #WWDC theverge.com/2015/6/8/87467…
Apple announces iOS 9, release later this year | The Verge #iOS9 #WWDC theverge.com/2015/6/8/87305…
Millions of US government workers hit by data breach - BBC News #hackers m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
12 things to expect from Apple's 2015 Worldwide Developers Conference | from The Verge #iOS #OSX #Apple #WWDC theverge.com/2015/6/3/87138…
Microsoft's Windows 10 has a release date: July 29 - from CNET #Windows10 cnet.com/news/microsoft…
Google I/O event - Google unveils new #IoT Project Brillo platform, Android M, Android Pay | from Mobile World Live mobileworldlive.com/google-unveils…
Google announces Android M, available later this year | from The Verge #Android #AndroidM theverge.com/2015/5/28/8675…
#iOS info from GottaBeMobile - #iOS8.4 soon then news on #iOS9 at #WWDC on June 8 with #iOS9 release in the autumn gottabemobile.com/2015/05/22/ios…
Airbus investigates engine software as cause of A400M crash in Spain | Ars Technica UK #bugs arstechnica.co.uk/information-te…
I'm doing the London Bridges Walk on Sunday 12 July for Kidney Research UK - here's the page justgiving.com/patwalsh-lb-20… #LondonBridgesWalk
US airline to reward bug-finding hackers - BBC News #testing #bugs m.bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
Google to Discontinue PageSpeed Services as of August 2015 #SEO #PageSpeed #Google searchenginejournal.com/google-to-disc…
Wow! Who needs a TV when you got that #lava #etna twitter.com/infoVolcano/st…
Wow #lava twitter.com/CultureVolcan/…
Why #Microsoft is calling Windows 10 'the last version of #Windows' | The Verge theverge.com/2015/5/7/85684…
London Technology Week to return in June 2015 startups.co.uk/london-technol…
Nice sunny day in #London #StPauls looking great as always http://t.co/6qH1TsIQvI
Synergy - Great way to work on two or more computers at same time - with no wires! Share keyboard, mouse @SynergyDev patwalsh.co.uk/devblog/
I originally used Synergy back in the day when I was working from home and using a works Windows PC and wanted to use my iMac at the same time. After much searching on the net I found Synergy and - after some complicated setups - [...]
Site update - Have added new footer links to my other sites - websecuritytest.co.uk and thecloudworker.com patwalsh.co.uk
Thanks to a quick Google and this blog post, I have now got my iMac screenshots automatically setup to 1) go to folder Desktop/Screenshots and 2) save in JPG file type instead of PNG - mainly due to the reduced file size, both on iMac drive [...]
Applebot could be the start of an Apple search engine | TechRadar techradar.com/news/internet/…
Apple opens up mobile app analytics for developers - from Mobile World Live mobileworldlive.com/apple-opens-mo…
Hadn't heard about Office for Mac Preview - not sure if it's Office 2015 or 2016 but either way, it's downloading... products.office.com/en-US/mac/mac-…
My WebTestLondon.com site has had some issues since auto-updating it's WordPress core to the latest 4.2 - as the theme it uses (Simplissimo) is not strictly compatible with that version. The main issue was error messages appearing at the top of each page - but after [...]
Apple says tattoos can cause Apple Watch problems - BBC News m.bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
Microsoft Edge - new name for Project Spartan / Internet Explorer / browser in Windows 10 - info from Wikipedia #Edge en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft…
