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Showing posts by Cate T. Corcoran - Technology Editor
I bought my first iPhone last week and within days used it to make my inaugural
foray into mobile commerce -- purchasing a pair of shoes from Urban Outfitters. I logged onto the retail site at home after dinner and, with the
shoes in my shopping cart, all I had to do was enter a credit-card number.
Consumers can skip that step, too, if they want the site to store the number.
The shoes arrived within days.
Fashion brands may have been slow to discover e-commerce, but they aren't dragging their Louboutins when it comes to social networking.
Posted in: Fashion
I was surprised by the Justice Department news on Aug. 5 charging 11 people with stealing over 40 million payment card numbers. It turns out the same guys were behind a bunch of data thefts at nine different retailers, including the really big heist at TJX. And, in a Hitchcock-worthy twist, it turned out that the very guy who was helping the FBI solve the case was the alleged mastermind behind the plot. Eek. Oops, that never looks good.
But maybe the biggest surprise is how easy the systems were to break into. The "60 Minutes" special last year pretty much got it right.
