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Tech News Flash: Thursday -- October 30, 2014

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Microsoft May Have Launched a Band of Gold
Apple Pay vs. CurrentC: Prelude to the Beacon Wars
The Long and Winding Road to Shellshock Recovery

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Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft May Have Launched a Band of Gold
Microsoft has made another foray into the mobile health market with the
introduction of the Microsoft Band, powered by its new Microsoft Health
platform. The band, which is available at Microsoft Stores for $200 as
of Thursday, is designed to be worn 24 hours a day. In addition to the
usual monitoring capabilities, the band will notify wearers of incoming
calls, emails, texts and social updates.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81280.html

Apple Pay vs. CurrentC: Prelude to the Beacon Wars
The current dustup between Apple Pay and CurrentC is a stark, bleak
mess. That's not because Apple promises an easier, more secure way of
making a smartphone-based retail transaction. Nor is it because CurrentC
wants to harvest data on you and provide behavior-bending coupons,
incentives and special deals, while cutting out the middleman credit
card processing industry. It gets worse.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81279.html

The Long and Winding Road to Shellshock Recovery
Four days after Shellshock was disclosed, Incapsula's Web application
firewall deflected more than 217,000 attempted exploits on more than
4,100 domains. The company recorded upwards of 1,970 attacks per hour,
from more than 890 IPs around the world. Shellshock was expected to be
far worse than the Heartbleed flaw, which was expected to impact about
17 percent of the secure Web servers worldwide.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81277.html

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