Inside Apple's Go-Slow Approach To Mobile Payments
Source: online.wsj.com - Saturday, July 07, 2012
Jessica E. Vascellaro, Wall Street Journal: When the payments plan came to an executive review in early 2012, several Apple senior executives balked, says a person briefed on the meeting. Apple's chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, questioned whether there was newer secure technology that employed the Internet rather than use NFC, this person said. Apple's Mr. Schiller was worried that if
What Apple lost by dropping EPEAT green certification
Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com - Saturday, July 07, 2012
A triumph of design over U.S. government-approved environmental standards? FORTUNE -- Late last month, Apple (AAPL) notified the Green Electronics Council that it was withdrawing its entire product line -- including 39 green-certified desktops, notebooks and monitors -- from the organization's Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool program, and that the company would no longer be submitting new products for EPEAT environmental ratings. "They said their design direction was no longer consistent with the MORE
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