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If you never felt inclined towards taking selfies, you may have to change your habit now. MasterCard is mulling to introduce a new technology that allows shoppers to authorise a payment with a selfie instead of a password or signature. MasterCard’s president of enterprise security solutions Ajay Bhalla was reported as calling it the “next wave of technology that will change the consumer experience for shopping digitally”, www.news.com.au reported. A selfie, by definition, is a self-taken photo, normally with a phone. “It’s all part of our role in making commerce available anywhere, any time, on any digital device,” Bhalla said. The new selfie payment technology will be implemented in MasterCard’s Identity Check app. When a customer purchases a product from an online merchant that requires a verified identity, the customer’s mobile phone will receive a ‘push notification’, which will open the app and ask to take a selfie. While the customer poses for the selfie, they will...

Apple Watch will be finally available in India on November 6, according to the official Apple India website. While Apple is yet to declare the price, it is expected to come at a starting price of Rs 36,999. In April, cross border e-commerce player Grabmore.in started taking pre-orders of the Apple Watch from Indian customers at a starting price of Rs 36,999. Grabmore.in usually gets the right price information of Apple products before they are launched in India. So, we can expect the Apple Watch Sport to be priced around Rs 36,999 for the base model. The delay in the launch of Apple Watch can be attributed to the fact that Apple was considering to sell the Watch in jewelery stores too as it falls in the luxury fashion accessory segment while being a gadget primarily. The different versions of the Watch is priced between Rs 36,999 and Rs 1,768,700. source : http://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technology/apple-watch-officially-coming-to-india-before-diwali/ar-BBmm668

In US : There is a new policy in 2015 your current energy provider doesn't want you to know.  If you currently own a house and live in specific zip codes the government is giving $1000's to each consumer to install solar panels and consumers are  reducing their energy bill by as much as 70%.  New subsidies and rebates cover 99% of costs associated with installation so it literally costs $0 to have done. With $0 down, you could be on your way to significantly reducing your electric bill in a matter of weeks.  How Do I See If I Qualify? Step 1: Click your state on the map to instantly check your eligibility for free Select Your State: Source :  http://thefinancestandard.com/solar-saving/

Facebook just launched a new kind of notification that will warn users if it suspects their account has been targeted by an attacker working on behalf of a nation-state. "While we have always taken steps to secure accounts that we believe to have been compromised, we decided to show this additional warning if we have a strong suspicion that an attack could be government-sponsored," Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer, writes in the company's blog post about the news. "We do this because these types of attacks tend to be more advanced and dangerous than others, and we strongly encourage affected people to take the actions necessary to secure all of their online accounts." Facebook says that if a user sees this notification, it's not an indication that Facebook  itself has been hacked in any way. Rather, it could indicate that that person's computer or smartphone has malware on it that bad actors are using to seek access to their a...

When the personal computer first became ubiquitous in the 1980s, as Adrienne LaFrance  wrote  in  The Atlantic  earlier this year, some people found it so terrifying that the term “computerphobia” was coined. “In the early days of the telephone, people wondered if the machines might be used to communicate with the dead. Today, it is the smartphone that has people jittery,” she wrote. “Humans often converge around massive technological shifts—around any change, really—with a flurry of anxieties.” To see those anxieties quantified, take a look at the top five scariest items in the Survey of American Fears, released earlier this week by researchers at Chapman University. Three of them—cyberterrorism, corporate tracking of personal information, and government tracking of personal information—were technology-related. For the survey, a random sample of around 1,500 adults ranked their fears of 88 different items on a scale of one (not afraid) to four (very afra...

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Between 2007 when Apple launched the first iPhone and now, smartphones have invaded our lives like nothing else. A seven-country survey released in July this year by Motorola found that 74% users in India slept holding their phones. Globally, more than half of users surveyed said they will reach for their phones before saving their pet cat in case of a fire. © LiveMint  While introducing the iPhone in 2007, Steve Jobs said that instead of the stylus \"the best pointing device in the world\" would be used. \"We will use our fingers,\" he said. Photo: Bloomberg “Who wants a stylus… you have to get ’em, put ’em away… lose them… yuck! ...We will use the best pointing device in the world… we will use our fingers,” Steve Jobs said in 2007 while introducing the iPhone. The fingers have taken over since then. Seen the cartoon on touch phones where an old hat in heaven cannot fathom why new entrants keep staring blankly at their hands? Or met a child who tries swiping h...