A new study from Juniper Research (www.juniperresearch.com) has found that the number of coupons issued via mobile and online channels will grow by more than 60% over the next five years, increasing from 224 billion in 2016 to 362 billion in 2021.
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Econ Technologies (www.econtechnologies.com) has released ChronoSync 4.7 featuring direct cloud support.
ChronoSync is an US$49.99 sync, backup, and bootable backup app for the Mac. It can back up and sync to anything you can connect to a Mac, including external drives, thumb drives, NAS drives, remote Macs, PC’s and now cloud services. Version 4.7 includes direct cloud connections for Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and SFTP file servers. Additional cloud services will be added in future releases.
Read MoreNew findings from Juniper Research (www.juniperresearch.com) claim that merchant integration of technologies such as bots and natural language interfaces will lead to remote goods purchases by mobile totaling $2.1 trillion by 2021. This represents a 100% increase from this year’s projection for spend on physical and digital goods.
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Adobe has posted security updates for its Flash Player plugin that deal with vulnerabilities that could allow a hacker to take control of a targeted computer.
For Mac owners, the updates include Flash Player Desktop Runtime 23.0.0.185, Flash Player Extended Support Release 18.0.0.382, and Flash Player for Google Chrome 23.0.0.185. The updates can downloaded using either Flash’s included update tool or the Adobe website (https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/).
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PhatWare Corp., a professional software and application developer, has announced that the entire source code of its multilingual WritePad handwriting recognition engine is now available under GPL v.3 license.
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