Saturday, April 06, 2013

Commercial using of Wi-Fi

Commercial access to services based on Wi-Fi available in places such as Internet cafes, airports and coffee shops around the world (usually these places are called Wi-Fi-cafe), but their coverage can be considered a point in comparison with cellular networks:

- Ozone and OzoneParis France. In September 2003, the beginning of Ozone network deployment OzoneParis through The City of Lights. The ultimate goal - the creation of a centralized network Wi-Fi, fully covering Paris. The basic principle of Ozone Pervasive Network is that it is a network of national scale.

- WiSE Technologies provides commercial access in airports, universities, and independent cafes in the United States;

- T-Mobile provides the network of hotspots for Starbucks in the U.S. and the UK, as well as more than 7,500 hotspots in Germany;

Friday, April 05, 2013

The largest DDoS-attack on the stock exchange Bitcoin - Mt.Gox

The representative of the victims feel that their actions are trying to bring down the rate of fraudsters Bitcoin.

April morning of the fourth exchange Bitcoin - Mt.Gox faced massive DDoS-attack. Note, that this exchange is about 70% -80% of all exchange transactions with e-currency. The attack caused the violation is of the transaction.

Representatives of Mt. Gox said they guess the motive for the attack. Since the last few days Bitcoin value rose to a record $ 142, then the instability in the market, in this case, the DDoS-attack that can significantly reduce the cost, as well as "cause panic among users."

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Analysts estimated sales of Windows 8

According to research by Net Applications, at the end of the first quarter 2013 sales of Windows 8 have increased from 2.79% to 3.31%.

Moreover, despite the fact that Windows 7 previously suffered losses, it grows again with a share changed from 44.55% to 44.73%. Market share of Windows Vista dropped to 5%, according to the portal thenextweb.com.

Analysts have seen a rapid growth in sales of Windows 8, which they had hoped. The share of Windows 7 in March increased, while last month it grew by only 0.07%, and in January - has fallen by 0.63%, the first failure in the market after the operating system on the market. The experts also noted a drop in sales of Windows Vista 5.17% to 4.99%.

Monday, April 01, 2013

Visa and iBox launched a joint mobile payment terminal

Visa and company ibox, provides mobile acquiring, today launched a new solution for the payment by cards - mobile terminal ibox.

Mobile payment terminal ibox - ibox-reader - a reader that connects to your phone or tablet running iOS or Android.

Ibox for individual entrepreneurs and companies with a large network of agents - insurance companies, courier services, taxi services, meal delivery and network marketing.

Votlichie from traditional bank acquiring iboxne requires the purchase of expensive equipment and is available to all businesses regardless of their sales volume.

From a marketing point of view, this decision is competing with a number of previously featured mobile payment terminals, such as NFC-service company PayPal, a Swedish product iZettle Square or from the creators of Twitter.