Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• If you see a carrier trumpet their decision to resell MSFT Office 365, short the stock., by Grace Schroeder | NBT Equities Research - Emerging Growth Stocks That Work

  • Hope is not a strategy.

• Applied DNA Sciences Inc. (APDN): All of you know by now that SMT,

  • ALTERA CORPORATION, a world class chip manufacturer, focused on: Automotive, Broadcast, Computer and Storage, Consumer, Industrial, Medical, Military, Test & Measurement, Wireless and Wireline chips and components was also very much part of the DLA research, and worked hand in hand with SMT and APDN during that period.

• When Will Your Smartphone Really Replace Your Wallet? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

  • Per a push from credit card companies like Visa, U.S. merchants are starting to  upgrade their old POS systems to ones that support contactless payments.  (Technically, they’re EMV  chip compatible models.) The project is supposed to take three to  five years, though Gartner analyst Mark Hung says a decade is more realistic
  • Additionally, the banks and all the new hardware and software makers inserting  themselves into the financial system will have to work out how to divvy up  processing fees for purchases
  • In terms of using the smartphone to replace your government-issued IDs, the  technology is already available,” Hung said. But it’ll probably be, yes, at  least 10 years before the government warms up to accepting purely digital forms  of identification.

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.