Neowin News Feed for: Credit

Report: Apple is working on multiple unannounced fintech projects, all hit by delays

Usama Jawad — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:28:01 +0000

Apple's Project Breakout to launch a next-generation financial system is facing engineering difficulties which has led to it fintech endeavors being delayed, including two that are unannounced. Read more...

Pay What You Want for this Mortgage & Real Estate Investment Bundle

News Staff — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 02:00:01 +0000

Become a real estate savant with 40 hours of mortgage advice and financial modeling training with today's highlighted Pay What You Want deal, worth $1,500 but you can get it for next to nothing. Read more...

Save 98% off the Complete Financial Markets & Securities Bundle

News Staff — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:46:01 +0000

Be the next big thing in brokerage and real estate with 49 hours of content on income securities, capital markets, equity, mortgage, and more with today's highlighted deal, saving over $2,750 off! Read more...

Google starts adding image rights metadata to content in Google Images

Paul Hill — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:46:01 +0000

Google has announced that Google Images will now display creator, credit, and copyright notice information. This should help photographers protect their copyrighted material and get attribution. Read more...

Microsoft rebrands Bing Rewards, major changes in tow

Usama Jawad — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 10:50:01 +0000

Microsoft has rebranded Bing Rewards to "Microsoft Rewards", and has made major changes as well, including the introduction of new methods to earn redeemable credit - now known as "points". Read more...

GameStop is offering $100 towards an Xbox One when you trade in a 360 or PS3

Andy Weir — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:26:01 +0000

GameStop says it will give you $100 credit towards the purchase of an Xbox One when you trade in an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 - although only certain models of each console will be accepted. Read more...

Microsoft: Get a free protective sleeve and $100 promo code when you buy a Surface Pro 3

Andy Weir — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:42:01 +0000

Microsoft is currently including a free protective sleeve with purchases of its Surface Pro 3 tablet, along with a $100 promotional code - but these offers will only be available for a limited time. Read more...

Get $50 Google Play credit with any Android device on a two-year AT&T plan

Andy Weir — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:51:09 +0000

AT&T is running a promotion available to anyone buying an Android phone or tablet via its website, with a two-year plan or finance agreement, giving them $50 of free credit for the Google Play store. Read more...

Google's Nexus 7 now comes with £50 to spend in the Play Store

Andy Weir — Wed, 14 May 2014 09:49:58 +0000

Google's brilliant little Nexus 7 tablet just became even more appealing for those in the UK, where anyone buying the device between now and June 1 will get £50 of credit to spend in the Play Store. Read more...

Earn Google Play store credit with the Opinion Rewards app

Andy Weir — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 09:16:26 +0000

Answer a few survey questions from time to time, and receive credit to spend on the Google Play store with the company's Opinion Rewards app - available to download now, exclusively for Android users. Read more...

Sony's credit rating downgraded to speculative

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:55:12 +0000

Sony has been feeling the pinch for the past four years, but things just slightly worse for the Japanese tech giant. Fitch has dropped their credit rating from a BB- to a BBB-. Read more...

Skype gives free month of landline calls

Paul Ferson — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:34:08 +0000

In an unusual move, internet communication giant Skype has given away a free month's use to many users, opening up all the service's abilities for a short time. Expect prank calls aplenty in future. Read more...

Sony-owned service hacked, and Sony's servers used for phishing

Denis Wong — Fri, 20 May 2011 22:52:09 +0000

A Sony service is the latest victim of another attack, although this one involves a Sony subsidiary that is a Japanese Internet service provider. Officials at So-net Entertainment Corporation reported a breach by an online... Read more...

PlayStation Network users may have credit card details stolen due to breach

Tom Dwyer — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:05:31 +0000

For a week now, Neowin has been actively reporting on Sony’s PlayStation Network as many gamers find that they’re unable to connect. As reported by Sony themselves, the reason for the downtime was because of... Read more...

Do we really want NFC payments?

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:35:05 +0000

I guess it all started with currency. It used to be that stuff had value, and if you wanted something that wasn’t yours, you’d have to give up some of you own stuff that had value... Read more...

Iranian hacker claims credit for Comodo attacks

Piers Hausjell — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:47:26 +0000

A post on the popular website Pastebin sheds new light on the recent Comodo SSL certificate attacks. A 21 year old Iranian hacker who goes by the name of ComodoHacker, claims full responsibility for the... Read more...

Skype offers users $1 for lost service, explains cause of outage

Christopher White — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:03:37 +0000

Skype experienced a significant outage last week when many of their supernodes failed. Today the company has provided a post-mortem of the issue on their blog. In a nutshell, Skype introduced hundreds of "mega-supernodes" to... Read more...

The Linux Foundation launches their own branded Visa card

Sam Symons — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:52:11 +0000

The Linux Foundation seems to be quite adamant of getting their image out there, as of late; not too long ago, they sent out their own advertisement to show off their offerings to the public,... Read more...

iTunes Store down due to credit problem?

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:50:05 +0000

It looks like iTunes Store is currently down due to a credit processing problem. The issue has been reported by many Twitterers in the past 10 hours. A pop-up gives an error message whenever users... Read more...

100 million credit cards compromised

Sean Bradford — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:31:18 +0000

Yesterday during the biggest day in America's history, Heartland Payment System finally revealed that it's systems were compromised by hackers in late May of 2008. Speculation around the blogosphere is that the company waited until... Read more...

Microsoft: Google gets undue credit for ad conversions

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:55:43 +0000

Google undeservedly has gotten all the credit for many clicks on the online ads it delivers via its search engine, but Microsoft wants to put a stop to that. So said Brian McAndrews, senior vice... Read more...

Fraudsters Use Charities Before Selling Stolen Credit Cards

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:44:08 +0000

Internet security company Symantec claims that Internet fraudsters are donating money to charities as a way to check the validity of stolen credit cards prior to resale. Unfortunately, Symantec doesn't have any figures to indicate... Read more...

Secret Service helps bust ID, credit card theft rings

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:50:19 +0000

Thanks to information provided by the Secret Service, on June 12 French National Police arrested four on online fraud charges in relation to an international ID theft ring. The arrests were part of an undercover... Read more...

Valve's Steam service hacked, credit card info obtained

Steven Parker — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:44:45 +0000

Looks like its time to cancel another card...Valve is still not responding to this as of yet, how wonderful. Valve's Steam content distribution system has apparently been hacked. The culprit allegedly got deep enough into... Read more...

Hackers Steal Credit Card Details of 19,000 AT&T Customers

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:09:16 +0000

Hackers have obtained credit card details of 19,000 online shoppers from telecoms company AT&T. The US company said it had notified shoppers at its online store of the security breach, which affected people buying high-speed... Read more...

Wireless Computer Shrunk Smaller Than a Credit Card

Dave Legg — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:14:02 +0000

Israeli company Compulab recently announced a computer that manages to cram a complete PDA into a device two-thirds the size of a credit card. The CM-X270 is a small Computer-on-Module board designed to serve as... Read more...

Activision requires credit cards now

Todd Tanner — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:05:13 +0000

According to Gamecloud the new "Age Gate" has just gone a step further. Activision is now requiring users to not only verify age, but they must provide a valid credit card to view "M" rated... Read more...

Sony credit rating cut by Standard & Poor's

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:07:53 +0000

Increased global competition in its core electronics business prompts the first downgrade in over a decade. Today, the globe's preeminent provider of credit rating and risk analysis, Standard & Poor's, downgraded Sony's... Read more...

Credit Cards, Google, and The Internet

Thu, 05 Aug 2004 16:35:15 +0000

Credit Card information theft has always been a worry to their users, a worry multiplied by the internet and online shopping. Users have often been haunted by 'scare stories' of data being intercepting and their... Read more...

Google queries provide stolen credit cards

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 05:27:20 +0000

Simple queries using the Google search engine can turn up a handful of sites that have posted credit card information to the Web, CNET News.com learned on Tuesday. The lists of financial... Read more...

Infinium agrees $50 million credit line

Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:31:37 +0000

Broadband game delivery proponent Infinium Labs has announced that it has secured a $50 million credit facility from an institutional investor, replacing a previously announced financing deal for $44 million. The new deal, which has... Read more...

PayPal gives credit

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:14:22 +0000

Just a short piece of news that I came across and thought that it might interest the Neowinians who use PayPal's services regularly. Appearantly, PayPal is hoping to improve customers' protection standards by introducing a... Read more...

Credit cards tap into radio tags

Sun, 04 Apr 2004 03:36:46 +0000

Forget about using a pen to sign a credit card slip, or even tapping in a secret number. In the future, you could authorise payments by simply moving your finger over your flexible friend. ... Read more...

UK News: Private Credit Data to be used by Govn

Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:36:06 +0000

So the UK govn. will soon be able to have a peek at UK'ers finances, eh? Strike another nail in the coffin of privacy if you will please. The government is... Read more...

Spam clients outed, credit card details published

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:01:22 +0000

Anti-spam activists have upped the ante in their fight against junk email by publishing the details - including credit card information - of people who've ordered spamming services online. Activists published details from order forms... Read more...

Trade airline miles for eBay credit

Sun, 18 May 2003 06:15:05 +0000

EBay launched a new promotion this week that lets consumers use airline miles and hotel loyalty points as credit toward items purchased on the online auction service. Through the eBay Anything Points... Read more...

Guy claims credit for "bringing down Neowin"

Steven Parker — Sat, 08 Mar 2003 12:13:34 +0000

IF YOU WONDER where your post count has gone or why half of our hacks on the boards or site are still not working or even why Neowin has been warped back to Feb 13th... Read more...

Credit Card-Size Hard Drive Can Hold 5GB

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:12:51 +0000

Thanks youm0nt...Take a look at one of those credit cards in your wallet. That's the exact size and thickness of an upcoming, revolutionary removable storage device called StorCard. Created by a company with the same... Read more...

Bugbear eats credit cards, passwords

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 01 Oct 2002 10:03:51 +0000

Bugbear is an Internet worm with a Trojan horse that attempts to steal your passwords and credit card information. Bugbear (w32.bugbear@mm), also known as Tanatos, is about 50KB long and is compressed with the UPX... Read more...

Wireless cash registers leaks Credit Card info.

Thu, 02 May 2002 14:04:53 +0000

Thanks go to Slashdot for point me in the direction of this article over on MSNBC regarding Best Buy and their wireless cash registers and the insecurity therein. Best Buy, the nation's No.... Read more...