Google Wallet: NFC payment system by Google

Google Wallet is a reality, it is now available as an app for the Samsung Nexus S 4G (U.S. only for the moment). This application will activate the security validations required to make transactions from your device, including the PIN code request to authorize payment. After entering the PIN code it’s just enough to bring the phone next to the reader in order to pay  for the purchased product.

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Whatever happened to privacy rights?

Nowadays, it seems that the right for privacy in the internet has become a very controversial issue. Now with the rapidly spreading boom of social networks and the rise of internet services, which have evolved enough to be able to show us every single detail of every single street on earth, you have to wonder: where do my rights for privacy begin and where (if such rights indeed exist) do they end?

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W1CD: What 1 Call Can Do

What 1 Can Do (W1CD) is a social media campaign that offer us the opportunity to remember that who we are and what we do matter, conceived by Rev. Sonia Echezuría. This first episode, What 1 Call Can Do, remind us to make that phone call, period. Sometimes, we feel it is important for us to make a phone call that we have been procrastinating for whatever reason and we simply don’t do it. We convince ourselves that there is something more important than celebrating a friend’s birthday, a child’s birth or call the authorities to report domestic violence or child abuse.

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