Canonical's personal cloud service, Ubuntu One, provides storage and media services, file sharing and a secure transaction service which enables partners to integrate their own service offerings easily.
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The NYSE completed their customer access strategy first, with Equinix providing its Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) POPs.
Credit card companies are working with CyberCash and Netscape Communications to develop and implement the new Secure Electronic Transaction protocol for online credit card commerce.
New mobile innovations allow businesses with mobile storefronts to track sales, inventory, and customers through m-commerce platforms that are integrated with their brick-and-mortar systems, and to set up easy-to-use, secure mobile transaction channels.
The Equinix marketplace is somewhat similar to the aspirations of NYSE Technologies which launched its own community at its Mahwah, NJ data center and another in the UK. Equinix hosts many of the NYSE local connections, Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure (SFTI) in locations around the world.
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"The beauty of iZettle is that it's simple to use, totally secure and takes seconds for a transaction, " said Jacob de Geer, CEO and co-founder of iZettle, which is used by more than 75, 000 small businesses and individuals in six countries.
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Rather than fight like holiday retailers for the transaction industry, leaders like NLP Secure are today looking for where the pain of the merchant resides.
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They weren't sophisticated tie-ins, but they did provide an easy way to process a transaction over the web, including secure payment and rudimentary information about the name and type of vendor involved.
In my professional view, this transaction would deny the United States reliable and secure access to a vital - and, as a practical matter, irreplaceable - world-wide telecommunications infrastructure.
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For Sony, this transaction will enable it to monetize its shares in S-LCD and aims to secure a flexible and steady supply of LCD panels from Samsung, based on market prices and without the responsibility and costs of operating a manufacturing facility.
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