Here’s why Rite Aid and CVS turned off Apple Pay

	CEO Tim Cook calls merchants' refusal to accept Apple Pay a 'skirmish' | Here's why Rite Aid and CVS turned off Apple Pay
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	Next Office for Mac leaks, shots of UI appear A Chinese website yesterday published what it claimed were screenshots of Microsoft's next edition of Office for the Mac. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: JAMF Software Successfully manage your upgrade to OS X Yosemite Preparing to update to OS X Yosemite? Download our paper, "Managing Apple OS Upgrades", to discover how the Casper Suite device management tool can make your Mac upgrades seamless, and ensure security measures are met, accurate system inventory is maintained, and downtime is eliminated. READ NOW In this Issue CEO Tim Cook calls merchants' refusal to accept Apple Pay a 'skirmish' Here's why Rite Aid and CVS turned off Apple Pay OS X Yosemite uptake climbs to 13% in first week 5K Retina iMac supply tightens Yosemite users complain about crippled Wi-Fi Apple mum as Mac owners wrangle with Yosemite's Wi-Fi problems Apple: Internet Explorer? Never heard of it Cook trounces Nadella in 2014 tech pay package tussle Apple hands 8 execs stock awards worth up to $27M Topcoder now has 3,700 Swift devs Apple Pay's next move: phone-to-phone payments? Apple and sapphire supplier strike deal to end partnership Vintage Apple-1 sells for a record $905K Nike CEO hints "stylish" Apple wearable plans Apple to end SSL 3.0 support for push notifications this month Some BofA customers double-charged with Apple Pay China attacks push Apple to warn users of iCloud threats Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with Chinese official after iCloud attack Jonny Evans: The Apple Pay refuseniks at CVS won't win this battle IT Blogwatch: Apple Pay becomes a hard pill to swallow for CVS WEBCAST: BMC Software Optimize Data Center Resources and Plan for the Future Eliminate over-provisioning and capacity shortfalls with pro-active capacity optimization. Join us in the evolution from capacity monitoring to capacity optimization in your data center. In this webinar, discover how to significantly extend the value of your performance monitoring system. Learn More CEO Tim Cook calls merchants' refusal to accept Apple Pay a 'skirmish' Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday called the battle with retailers like Walmart, Rite Aid, CVS and others over mobile payments only a "skirmish" while speaking at the Wall Street Journal's technology conference. Read More Here's why Rite Aid and CVS turned off Apple Pay Recent moves by Rite Aid and CVS to stop taking mobile payments from Apple Pay and other NFC-enabled systems stem from a protracted battle between major U.S. retailers and Visa and MasterCard. Read More OS X Yosemite uptake climbs to 13% in first week A week after its release, Apple's OS X Yosemite powered 13% of all Macs in the U.S. and Canada, about the same uptake rate seen last year by Mavericks. Read More 5K Retina iMac supply tightens Ship times for Apple's new 5K Retina iMac continue to slip, proof that the company's problem syncing supply and demand is getting worse. Read More Yosemite users complain about crippled Wi-Fi Complaints that Mac OS X Yosemite disrupts or entirely disables Wi-Fi connections have been flowing onto social media sites and discussion forums since the OS was released last Thursday. Read More Apple mum as Mac owners wrangle with Yosemite's Wi-Fi problems Mac owners whose Wi-Fi connections went haywire after upgrading to OS X Yosemite are filing a steady stream of complaints about the problem in discussion forums, blogs and social media sites. Read More Apple: Internet Explorer? Never heard of it Apple on Tuesday told browser users to pay attention to warnings of insecure digital certificates after reports of a "man-in-the-middle" attack against iCloud.com in China was revealed earlier in the week. Read More Cook trounces Nadella in 2014 tech pay package tussle Although the $84.3 million pay package of Microsoft's CEO made news Monday, Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, has already blown by his rival in compensation for the year. Read More Apple hands 8 execs stock awards worth up to $27M Apple recently awarded eight executives stock grants that were worth almost $13 million each at Thursday's closing price, with as much as another $14 million up for grabs. Read More Topcoder now has 3,700 Swift devs At its most recent Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event in June, Apple took the lid off something it had been silently cooking for years: Swift, a new programming language in the C family designed to combine the robustness of the Objective-C that iOS and OS X developers were used to with the speed of scripting languages like Python. 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Read More Nike CEO hints "stylish" Apple wearable plans Apple's adventures in wearable computing won't begin and end with Apple Watch -- CEO Tim Cook's company is forging deep partnerships to help it embrace the emerging universe of connected things. Read More Apple to end SSL 3.0 support for push notifications this month Apple will stop support on Oct. 29 for for SSL 3.0, which was found to contain a severe vulnerability. Read More Some BofA customers double-charged with Apple Pay Some Bank of America customers have been double-charged for purchases made with Apple Pay, the payment system Apple launched on Monday. Read More China attacks push Apple to warn users of iCloud threats Apple warned users about attacks on its iCloud website, after monitoring groups said China tried to intercept customer information from the service. Read More Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with Chinese official after iCloud attack Just after Apple's iCloud service faced a hacking attack from China, Apple CEO Tim Cook met with a Chinese official to discuss protecting users' privacy. Read More Jonny Evans: The Apple Pay refuseniks at CVS won't win this battle The CVS network's decision not to support Apple Pay doesn't matter too much -- its alternative mobile payments system won't catch on and customers will just pay cash. Read More IT Blogwatch: Apple Pay becomes a hard pill to swallow for CVS Apple's new NFC mobile payment system -- Apple Pay -- has received generally positive reviews from users and journalists alike. On the other hand, a group of retailers known as Merchant Customer Exchange recently had a less-than-enthusiastic reaction to Apple's new wireless wonder. So unenthused, the group has now blocked all NFC-based payment systems. Read More
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