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LevelUp announces new Times Square free pizza promotion for smartphone users on New Year’s Eve

12/29/201112/29/2011 Jorge Gonzalez

Mobile payment company, LevelUp, has announced the launch of its first brand partner on a national level, Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen (Villa FIK), and it will be kicking off this partnership by offering free pizza to smartphone users at Times Square on New Year’s Eve. The promotion will allow smartphone owners to use their devices to receive free food worth up to $10, including pizza, Stromboli, pasta, salads, and other options available at Villa FIK. This will demonstrate the mobile payment technique to the device users by providing them with…

Mobile technology may not be as safe and innocent as once thought

08/12/201108/12/2011 Stephen Vagus

As mobile technology continues to evolve, it is constantly pushing the boundaries of security. Augmented reality has already been shown to present a very real threat to a person’s privacy, but smart phones harbor many tools that can be used against their owners. One tool, in particular, is seemingly harmless and is most often associated with the emergence of mobile commerce. NFC technology, though still in its infancy, has the potential to completely nullify any security methods used to protect a person’s identity or a company’s sensitive business information. Near…

Zoosh unveils option instead of NFC and Google Wallet

07/03/201107/06/2011 L. Green

Zoosh, a state of the art development produced by a Silicon Valley startup company called Naratte, has turned the heads of a number of developers of mobile payment technologies, as it has come up with a way to replicate the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) chips through the use of a simple microphone and speaker already found in the majority of mobile devices. The Zoosh technology involves the use of sound frequencies that are inaudible to humans, but that are commonly used in the natural world by animals such…