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Making Payments Via Cell Phones
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The announcement on 16 December by the board of the UK Payments Council that cheques are to be phased out by 2018 has heightened the need for secure replacement payment systems.
New security technology developed at Oxford University by Professor Bill Roscoe and his team that allows people to make payments via [...]
New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs
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Growing up in the ’70s, John Halamka was a bookish child with a penchant for science and electronics. He wore black horn-rimmed glasses and buttoned his shirts up to the collar.
“I was constantly being called a geek or a nerd,” he recalled, chuckling.
Dr. Halamka grew up to be something of a cool nerd, [...]
The New Untouchables
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THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Last summer I attended a talk by Michelle Rhee, the dynamic chancellor of public schools in Washington. Just before the session began, a man came up, introduced himself as Todd Martin and whispered to me that what Rhee was about to speak about — our struggling public schools — was actually [...]











































