Category: Information Technology

For fifteen tense minutes on 12th September afternoon, United Airlines’ fare booking engine was operating at full steam. Someone, likely a Flyertalk user, noticed that fares between Washington DC and Minneapolis were pricing at $10 and posted his finding onto the forum. Attention grew rapidly, with over 100 replies in just an hour, and the news spread to Twitter.

 

The glitch in the system appeared to offer $0 fares plus $5 in tax for many domestic flights, and was apparently caused by human error. Some forum readers reported finding $10 flights between Washington DC and Hawaii, while others scooped up over a dozen tickets to destinations all over the country.

 

Read the full article at Cnet

Sure, you’ve heard of virtualized computing environments before, but a start-up here at TechCrunch Disrupt called PPL Connect is a platform that virtualizes your phone’s capabilities in real-time. That means you can make and receive calls and texts and access the photos and videos on your phone from any device with a web browser. It’s kind of like AirDroid, only you don’t need to have your phone with you or even have it turned on to make calls or receive texts once you’ve signed up. It’s a platform agnostic solution for a fragmented mobile world.

The magic happens via a localized app on your phone and Amazon cloud service to dish out your data where you need it. That cloud component both serves as cloud storage for your data and as a back-end VoIP relay station for calls and texts. Currently, photos, videos, contacts, calls and texts are what’s handled by the service, but the plan is to eventually fully replicate your phone’s capabilities. For folks who are concerned about putting your digital life in the hands of PPL connect, all transmissions to and from its servers are encrypted. And, the company is currently devising a fully encrypted system whereby the data’s only accessible with a single, user-owned key.

Read more at Engadget

New Delhi-based Ken Research has issued a new report focused on present conditions and future prospects for the Indian ATM Market.

Read the original article at ATM Market Place

GFI Software announced Free Asset Tracking Forever, a no-charge component of the GFI Cloud suite of cloud-based IT management services that enables organizations to audit and asset manage servers and workstations across the organization, as well as identify and manage units running legacy operating systems with minimal effort, all from a single management console.

 

Read more at GFI Cloud

Converting files between formats is never a fun thing to do. When you’re working on different systems, it’s a pain to do, and you often need a ton of software. CloudConvert is a web app that can convert 140 different file types.

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We’ve been hearing for a while now that passwords will soon become a thing of the past and, as it seems now, biometric authentication is likely to take their place.

 

The latest innovation in this field comes from Canadian startup Bionym, whose team created Nymi, a bracelet / wristband containing an ECG (electrocardiogram) sensor that “reads” the unique heartbeat pattern of the wearer and uses it to authenticate into a variety of electronic devices (cars, computers, smartphones, TVs, etc.).

 

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