Jack Dorsey, author and director of Twitter, restored site of its new venture Square. It says The New York Times. The idea of this project is to using a small device, a scanner to convert to cash a mobile device that accepts payments from credit cards.

Anticipated that the first service interested private entrepreneurs, which is unprofitable because of high rates of companies servicing credit cards, accept electronic payments from customers. Jack Dorsey promises that the monthly fee for using the Square will be much lower, although long and does not specify how it is.

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In the Netherlands, discovered the first malicious worm for Smartphone iphone, air broadcasts News. Its potential victims are the users of the Internet interface of the Dutch online bank ING Direct. Zarazyvshy phone, it redirects users to a site similar to a bank and steal data.

Infected can only be broken (jailbroken) phone with an application SSH. By default its password - "alpine". If it does not change during the installation, the worm can gain access to the phone.

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In Moscow HKZ "Pushkin" the evening of November 25 was awarded "Prize Runet-2009. Her winners were organizations and Web sites in six categories.

Award winners in the category "State and Society" are the projects' Karera.ru ", livejournal.com and news site Infox.ru.

In the category "Culture and Mass Communication received a gold statuette resources Rambler, the site of children's TV channel Bibihon and Project Omlet.ru. Special award nominations - for Internet radio - was the site RTS.fm.

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