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Google does not sell hardware, Eric Schmidt told us as much, but the company has few qualms about buying the stuff up. Bloomberg is reporting, on the authority of a pair of well informed sources, that the Mountain View team is about to buy up “thousands” of VeriFone’s NFC payment terminals, with a view to installing them in stores across San Francisco and New York City. Those two technophile cities represent the most receptive audience NFC is likely to get in the US, and Google will be hoping that users there will be able to appreciate the convenience of being able to swipe their Nexus S (or other similarly equipped handset) to complete payments. We already know that Schmidt and co. consider the concept of “mobile money” a priority and there have been rumblings of Google setting up its own payment system, which together make this hookup with VeriFone appear highly credible. Bloomberg expects the trials to commence within the next four months, just in time to make iPhone 5 users green with envy.

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Oh, here we go again. Adobe’s kicked out a security bulletin for users of its Flash Player on “all platforms” — that’ll be the entire population of the internet, then — warning them that a new critical vulnerability has been discovered that may cause crashes and potentially permit the hijacking of systems. The issue also affects the company’s Reader and Acrobat software products. Even better news is that Adobe has found it’s being actively exploited “in the wild” via a .swf file embedded in an Excel spreadsheet, but a fix won’t be forthcoming until the beginning of next week. So, erm, enjoy your full web experience until then!

Adobe finds ‘critical’ security hole in Flash Player, won’t fix it before next week originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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From our friends at SET Japan.

You know what they say — if you can’t Beat ’em, undercut ’em. Signeo’s Soul by Ludacris headphone series — which made its debut a couple of months ago at CES — has just been priced, and sure enough, each pair is cheaper than what Dr. Dre and co. are charging for the HP Beats assortment. The top-end SL300 is set to sell for $299, while the similarly styled SL150 goes for $199. The more conventional SL100 will list for $149, and if it’s earbuds you’re craving, the SL99 will sport an MSRP of $99 while the low-end SL49 offers itself for just $69. Specifics on each one are hosted up after the break, and Americans can expect to see the whole crew this May. As for everyone else? There’s no time table yet, but we’ve been assured by the company that international distribution is being worked on as we speak. Word.

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‘Soul by Ludacris’ headphone series priced from $69 to $299, shipping in May originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on October 01, 2006 by CyberNet.

We are always looking for a good way to store files in a remote location but we also want something simple to use. Ever since GMail emerged there have been ways available to use your email storage quota, which is currently at 2.7GB+, to store your files. The most popular way is probably this GMail Drive which integrates itself right into Windows Explorer.

Backup To Email is different than other programs because it will let you right click on a file or folder and upload it to your email account. Don’t worry if your files are larger than the 10MB file attachment limitation because it will split the file up for you.

Here are some more of the features that Backup To Email has:

• While right clicking a file and choosing “Backup To EMail” the file will be sent to the email account
• While right clicking a folder and choosing “Backup To EMail” the folder will be zipped and sent to the email account 
• No limit on file / folder size, files/folders larger than 10MB are being split to slices of 10MB
• If connection is disconnected at the middle of file transfer then resending the file, auto retry every 2 minutes, 100 auto retries

I would say that this program is coming along quite nicely and it has a lot of potential. It is nice that you can upload entire folders because it gets compressed but it should do that for normal files as well. Another thing that would be cool (and should probably be easy to configure) is to allow for multiple email accounts. That way I could create separate GMail accounts based upon what kind of files I am uploading (school, work, freeware, etc…) and easily select the location that I want the file uploaded to.

I know that everyone says Google is working on file storage that will be “unlimited” but their competition is beating them to the punch. It is fine if they can’t go unlimited right away and maybe they should initially take the user’s file storage space quota from their GMail account. That’s just my thought but I think they need to get moving on this.

Note: There is a small text advertisement that is displayed in Backup To Email while uploading the file to your email account.

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Thanks for the tip Radu!

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