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More tools for merchants
PayPal acquires Paydiant, puts NFC into its Here readers

Software eats everything
Intel, Alcatel-Lucent unveil their cloud mobile network

Building Wi-Fi mojo
Yup: HP’s buying Aruba for about $3B
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Biometrics meets sonar
Qualcomm has a fingerprint ID technology that uses ultrasound

A tablet's coming, too
Silent Circle shows off more powerful Blackphone 2 privacy phone

Secure, and not from the U.S.
Jolla and SSH push Sailfish Secure as “European alternative” mobile OS

640 and 640 XL bundles
Microsoft’s new budget Lumias are all about the services
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Where Wi-Fi and 4G meet
Alcatel-Lucent’s new network concept mixes Wi-Fi and LTE

A turf war at 5 GHz
T-Mobile will launch LTE in the Wi-Fi airwaves in 2016

We got payment options
Samsung Pay has all the tools it needs to surpass Apple Pay

Bye bye plastic phones
Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge: A new look for Samsung and a new wallet

Phone scams follow data theft
Scammers defraud TalkTalk users after UK ISP suffers data breach
Happy open-source family
Russia’s Runa Capital invests $3.4M in database firm MariaDB

Groundbreaking if toothless
Spyware firm Gamma failed on human rights, says OECD

And rolls out in more markets
Telefonica’s Tu Go service turns to WebRTC for in-browser calls

Reach Me feature nears rollout
Orange’s Libon app lets you take calls to your number over Wi-Fi

The need for speed
SK Telecom uses fancy antennas to hit LTE speeds of 600 Mbps

Read the fine print
WhatSim becomes ChatSim as it expands to apps beyond WhatsApp

How big is your baseband?
As 4G demand balloons, here come the “super” base stations
