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MasterCard demonstrates new ways to pay online using mobile devices

The card company uses a secure element stored on a phone to protect online transactions

12 Ways to (Not) Screw Up Your Website

Microsoft adding in-memory technology to SQL Server

Code-named Hekaton, Microsoft's in-memory technology will allow an entire database to be run from memory

Online Voting: A challenge for the tech industry

Waiting hours in a line to vote is so 1964.

10 Ways Telemedicine is Changing Healthcare IT

Chinese smartphone vendors cut Apple out of top five in shipments for Q3

Coolpad smartphones took third place in market share for China, according to Canalys

AT&T to pay $700,000, refund overcharged customers

Under a consent decree, AT&T will refund certain customers who were moved to a monthly plan from a pay-per-use plan without their consent

Barack Obama wins re-election

Election observers report scattered problems with e-voting machines

E-voting machine swaps Obama vote for Romney; taken offline

Pennsylvania officials acknowledge the error; say calibration error fixed and DRE machine is back on duty

Sprint to drop Nextel name after Softbank deal

After Softbank buys 70% of its shares, the Sprint name will stand alone