At the Plug and Play Retail and FinTech Expo on October 22nd, I had the opportunity to interview Dominic Venturo, CIO of…
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When it comes to privacy, mobile carriers must choose whether they serve customers or advertisers
As the Verizon "permacookie" debacle shows, some carriers are more interested in inserting themselves into the lucrative mobile advertising world than they are in their customers' privacy. With new developments around the role of carriers in mobile authentication, that may be a poor choice.…
Read MoreTV somewhere, sometimes: Pay TV’s rocky path towards a streaming future
TV Everywhere is too complicated and fragmented to be really popular -- but it has nonetheless changed television.…
Read MoreComedy Central launches new iOS app for South Park, Colbert and Jon Stewart
Comedy Central wants you to watch more Jon Stewart, so it made an app that offers next-day access to full episodes of the Daily Show and other shows on the network.…
Read MoreWhere to watch the Oscars live online
This Sunday, ABC is going to live stream the Oscars for the first time in the history of the awards. However, only a subset of TV viewers will have access to the show online.…
Read MoreNo Olympics for you: Comcast locks value customers out of Sochi streams
You're paying Comcast for internet and cable TV? That still doesn't mean you get access to live streams from Sochi, as some viewers just found out.…
Read MoreWhere to watch the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics live online
So you want to watch the Olympics, but not on your TV? You are in luck: NBC is streaming more than 1,000 hours of competitions live online -- but those streams can only be accessed if you are a pay TV subscriber.…
Read MoreSay it with me: Voice has a place in enterprise security and authentication
Our voices aren't just a way to communicate, they are an ever-present certification of who we are. That's why banks and other big firms are turning to voice authentication.…
Read MoreBoingo turns Chicago’s O’Hare Airport into the world’s biggest Hotspot 2.0 testbed
Hotspot 2.0 bolted from the gate more than a year ago, but since then it's gone nowhere. Boingo is trying to break the stalemate between carriers and device makers by opening up an enormous trial.…
Read MoreKeyLemon gets funding to blend face and voice recognition authentication tech
The Swiss outfit provides biometric authentication for both embedded and cloud systems -- its customers range from PC makers to universities and automotive firms.…
Read MoreHow to make Twitter the ultimate news ticker
Recent events, tragic and triumphant, emphasize the social web's role as a central source for disseminating breaking news. But getting the facts right continues to be a challenge, and a solution requires cooperation and technical innovation.…
Read MoreMeet OneAPI, the technology that could make carriers relevant in mobile apps
The OneAPI Exchange will get carriers into the identity verification business, but more significantly it's the first carrier developer service designed to work universally across all carriers' networks.…
Read MoreApple settles into the set-top
The swapped-out Apple TV components suggest Apple expects to be cranking out more or less the same set-top box for some time yet. The new components consist of chips it is already buying in bulk for other products. It’s a cost-savings move, in other words, aimed at making the manufacturing and supply chain of the current Apple TV set-top a little more efficient.…
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In response to stories like this and its own estimates about duplicate or bogus user accounts, Facebook is working on ensuring the “integrity”…
Read MoreNBC and the Olympics: Old ways still earn gold
Although the networks have complained in recent years about the high costs of rights for major sporting events, to say nothing of the impact those high costs have on the carriage fees the networks demand from pay-TV distributors, nothing in NBC's experience with the London Games suggests its time to change that formula.…
Read MoreNBC Sports Chairman Lazarus: London Olympics are a ‘grand experiment’
The 2012 Summer Games are the start of a new era for NBC Universal -- an Olympics streamed in real time for fans who don't want to wait for the packaged prime-time experience. For Mark Lazarus, it's a grand experiment in a $1 billion laboratory.…
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Fresh off bringing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and three publishers over e-book pricing, the U.S. Justice Department has set its sites…
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At GigaOm’s paidContent 2012 conference in New York yesterday, News Corp. chief digital officer Jon Miller drew an important distinction between TV…
Read MoreViewers vexed by Fox’s TV Everywhere pay wall
It's been just a week since Fox instituted an eight-day delay for its shows online, and already people are heading to BitTorrent instead. According to TorrentFreak, the number of viewers downloading shows like MasterChef and Hell's Kitchen has surged over the past few days.…
Read MoreSo you want to watch Fox shows on Hulu?
We tried (unsuccessfully) to access Fox shows using its new authentication system on Hulu, getting hung up by the pay TV login that only works for Dish subscribers. Since Dish is the only distributor on board, everyone else's experience will probably be similar to our own.…
Read MoreJumio says use your webcam to swipe credit cards
Jumio, a secretive online-payments startup created by Jajah founder Daniel Mattes, is finally ready for its close-up. And it's a fitting metaphor, because Jumio is enabling online credit card payments made by scanning a card with a computer webcam.…
Read MoreOnline Identity Isn’t a Transaction — It’s a Feeling
Former Twitter CEO Evan Williams breaks the important aspects of identity down into five distinct pieces, including authentication and personalization. But the reality is that what we mean by "identity" can change from moment to moment, and that may be the most difficult problem of all.…
Read MoreDisney, Verizon FiOS Extend Carriage Deal; Includes Mobile, Digital Access
With the recent Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) deal as a template, Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Verizon FiOS TV have agreed to extend and expand di……
Read MoreEnole: It's Like OpenID for Your Phone
An ambitious startup named Enole is trying to bring the spirit of OpenID to the mobile environment, by building a near-field communications (NFC) platform that developers can build on to get devices to carry their owner's identity. It's sort of like OpenID for your phone.…
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