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13Sep2016: Payments and Rewards with Your Smart Phone

We love near-field communications (NFC), the technology that enables you to pay for purchases with your smart phone. We love the security factors built into it. Banks and merchants are loving it more, too, because now they launch more loyalty programs to reward themselves – and even you. It’s the logical extension of programs that

13 Sep, 2016
Norman Rosenthal
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credit cards, cyber security, data security, electronic payments, iphone7, NFC, smart phone,

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13Sep2016: Is Your Phone Prepared for a Weather Emergency?

September is National Preparedness Month, and storms along the East Coast can be extremely dangerous as air temperatures drop faster than water temperatures. We all remember Sandy, too, which wreaked havoc in our entire region in October 2012. Now might be a good time to think about apps for smart phones to give you adequate

13 Sep, 2016
Norman Rosenthal
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Google public alerts, natural disaster, smartphone, twitter alerts, WEA, weather emergecny,

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13Sep2016: Cybersecurity Checklist

We doubt the Russians or WikiLeaks are looking into your computer, but there’s a good chance somebody is. Want to get ahead of any possible problems? Try this checklist. Update your software – Security patches are almost always the feature of any software update for your operating system and application software, including Internet browsers. You

13 Sep, 2016
Norman Rosenthal
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cybersecurity, data protection, privacy, scam, spoof, wikileaks,

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