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You'll hear more about nfc. you will take your phone and go to a kiosk at a store and swipe it and pay like you would with your credit card. no touching of anything. just getting the information directly from your phone. why are the credit card companies so interested in this and carriers and phone makers? there is a lot of money at stake here. every one of those transactions, there is a little bit of money at stake. they want to find a way to do this. this is absolutely inevitable over the next few years. >> people hear about that, if we are able to take our phone to the scanner, does that me...

Systems. i bet they were. if you take a look at what google has put out with android, a lot of those phone makers like it because the operating system is open, meaning they can customize it, do whatever they want to, they don't have to license it and put it on the phones and spend more time designing the devices. that has gotten the devices all over the place. android wasn't even around two years ago and now they're saying 3 1.2% of u.s. smartphones are running on google's android system that's as of january and 34% were blackberry users according to a com core study we've seen. in june of las...

One. this has been coming from years and years. we have heard about it for so long, right? >> we watched technology get faster and faster. the smartphone already a dinosaur before you even take it out of the box, right? >> that's so true. i got a new phone, too bad it's old. that's kind of what's happening because the turnaround pace is speeding up. the average time a phone spends on a shelf is about six to nine months. prior to 2007, the life of a smartphone was three years. the innovation has increased and life circles are shorter. the motorola razor was the number one phone for five years. ...

But our discovery is of critical importance for users in the security industry politicians and executives. on this another risk the system records the uses biometric data both manufacturers claim that it is encrypted and secure directly on the phone but the user has no control over what actually happens with the data. the . phone makers have different approaches to the processing of biometric data apple shows its customers that the data will remain on the device if they wish so this is not the case with microsoft and samsung they could later use their data for other purposes and if you study t...

Operating system used by phone makers including samsung on why e.u. officials say forcing manufacturers to pre-install apps like you tube and google maps in exchange for enabling the download of other android amounts to unfair competition. google maintains its within its rights to set preconditions for the use of its services you competition authorities reject that argument accusing the company of marginalizing its rivals. in this way google has used android as a vehicle to cements its stunning ends inst as a search engine these practices they have denied rivals a chance to innovate and to com...