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FaceCash, the mobile payment application, kill the credit card?

A Silicon Valley company with a noteworthy founder has created a mobile payment system called FaceCash that it hopes will one day displace credit cards. You might be tempted to write this off as too audacious. But consider this: The founder is Aaron Greenspan, the Harvard graduate who claimed in 2007 that his former schoolmate, Mark Zuckerberg, ripped off his work when Zuckerberg created Facebook. Greenspan settled a trademark lawsuit with Facebook and Zuckerberg filed in 2008 last...

Seton Hill University to give all students an iPad

We were talking about this the other day in the virtual "back room" at TUAW -- when would the first university announce that they were going to give every one of their students an iPad? It didn't take too long. Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania has announced that starting in Fall, 2010, every full-time student will get an iPad as part of the Seton Hill Griffin (that's the school's mascot) Technology Advantage Program. According to TUAW reader Dirk, who tipped us to this...

Gmail Becomes an App Platform

You may or may not be excited by the acronyms OAuth and IMAP/SMTP, but the combination of them all together is very exciting news. Google Code Labs announced this afternoon that it has just enabled 3rd party developers to securely access the contents of your email without ever asking you for your password. If you're logged in to Gmail, you can give those apps permission with as little as one click. What does that mean? It means mashups based on the actual emails in your inbox. If you've...

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The FTP Butterfly Effect

Anyone dealing with FTP and firewalls has to ask himself “what were those guys smoking?” As we all know, FTP is seriously broken: Command and data streams use separate sessions. Layer-3 addresses and layer-4 port numbers are carried in layer-7 messages. FTP server opens a reverse session to a dynamic port assigned by the FTP client. Once upon a time, there was a very good reason for this weird behavior. As Marcus Ranum explained in his Internet nails talk @ TEDx (the title is...

The Most Stunning Data Centers in World

Who says technology can’t be art? Taking a break from our typical hacks and mods, we bring you the most impressive data centers of the world. Pictured above and below, Microsoft seems to have their top-secret data center organization down to an art. As you can see, the final results are just breath taking. Sweeden’s Largest ISP: **Update** – See a video tour (thanks Reddit) This thing looks like a secret lair! On a truly epic scale, above is a newly opened high...

New dream job: Honeymoon tester

Luxury-loving couples available to globetrot for six months and get paid to test out the most romantic wedding and honeymoon destinations around the...

Mandate for Change: Louisville lives in the Strong Age

The Old Guy. Steve Kragthorpe, previously known to insiders and die-hards as the guy who ran Texas A&M's offense when Texas A&M was still relevant in the Big 12 championship picture and later silenced a decade-long death rattle at Tulsa with three winning seasons in four years, will instead go down as the guy who ran an Orange Bowl program with a Heisman-caliber quarterback into the ground. With star quarterback Brian Brohn en tow, Kragthorpe's first team at Louisville was a darkhorse...

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Marvell Teases with $100 Tablet for Students

Marvell (Chip maker ) wants to get into the tablet business and it is showing a prototype that will offer web access and high-definition content at a price that would beat the competition by a wide margin. The prototoype tablet, called Moby, is targeted mainly at students who may be looking for a digital device that could give them access to books and the internet, and could also act as a music player. The Moby tablet will be powered by Marvell's ARMADA 600 series of application processors....