Apple Pay could soon let people pay others through a text message or a phone call
The article is about how it is believed that Apple is developing a method of payment that allows users to pay other iPhone users through text or phone calls that will be integrated into Apple software allowing user to pay each other much quicker and much more conveniently. The new method will use Apple pay to work.
- The company has filed for a patent that shows the company exploring options for sending money over its text messaging service, iMessage
- The patent suggests that Apple will add a button to text messages that will allow people to send money with just a click
- a little button could appear in the corner of the message screen allowing people to quickly make a payment
- The tool will probably make use of Apple Pa
This is an example of how technology is making our lives much easier but could also be putting a danger in front of our personal data and the system could go wrong and cause a lot of problems for users. For example it could send money to the wrong person and could also be hacked more easily than other methods.
Charity launches website to give people 'greater control over their death'
The article is about how people can now go on this website
and allows its users to decide their treatment when they are dying. The website
takes users through different scenarios should their health deteriorate and
gives them the option to refuse treatment and is legally binding for doctors to
follow. A copy can be printed and used to give treatment if the patient is
unable to do so.
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Anyone who
completes the document, known as an “advance decision” – detailing how someone
can refuse a specific type of medical treatment or drug at some time in the
future – will have greater control over their death
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in
response to growing concerns about how few people were planning ahead for
end-of-life treatment should they lose the ability to make their own decisions
· The website will take people through different scenarios that they may encounter if their health fail.
This
is an example of how new and digital media is increasing on impact of our lives
and is being used more and more frequently in our serious decisions
showing that the impact new and digital media is having on its audience.
BBC hit by widespread outages taking website and iPlayer offline
The article is about how the BBC suffered a problem in which all digital services became unavailable to users for a period of time. Suspicions of a hack were floating around however BBC is denying this with the response that it was a technical error and had nothing to do with a hack.
- denial of service attack (DDoS) but the BBC press office repeated that it was “a technical issue”
- down detector indicating major issues from around 7am on Thursday
- The website was showing 500 error code page
- it came back online shortly before 11am
In my opinion this shows that no new and digital media service is safe from technical errors or hacks. The article also tells me that people have become very dependant on new and digital media methods of watching just TV and lose their minds when it goes away shows how far we have come from only being able to watch TV on TV.
Microsoft to start notifying victims of 'state sponsored' hacking
- Chinese authorities allegedly compromised over 1,000 Hotmail accounts.
- Joining other US technology companies – including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Twitter – Microsoft said that the change in policy was designed to help users protect their data.
- Hotmail email accounts had been hacked into by elements linked to Chinese authorities over three years starting in July 2009, but did not tell users.
In my opinion this should have been done way before these hacks were committed and it shouldn't have taken a hack across Hotmail before Microsoft told their users that their private data could be in danger.
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