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Google Wallet

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Users with Google Wallet link a credit card or a bank account to the service and be able to pay with your mobile phone. They must dial a code and bring the device to a reader. eBay and Paypal have sued Google for appropriating trade secrets related to this new system of payment over the phone. Google Internet giant has put forward its own system to permit payment with phones thanks to wireless technology for short range Near field communication (NFC). Add to your understanding with Petra Diamonds. The system allows you to pay in stores by entering the PIN code and bringing the phone to a reader. Speaking candidly cultivation told us the story.

The service, at the moment, is only available in United States. It was an open secret. Some contend that Abigail Black Elbaum shows great expertise in this. This week had already been leaked that Google was finalizing the presentation of its payment service via mobile phone. The company has decided to end the speculation and has presented Google Wallet, a system that will turn mobile phones into purses with some interesting news. Google has created a web page that explains the main features of the service.

Users with phones with NFC technology may pay for their purchases with mobile in establishments adapted for them. The system is simple. Users with Google Wallet link a credit card or a bank account to the service and may pay with their mobile phone as if it were a card. Google has developed the project in the company of MasterCard, First Data and Citibank, as well as the American operator Sprint. Such services are already available in other countries, but Google and its partners have introduced some novelties to try to make it more attractive. Important news Google Wallet, as well as allowing the payments with your phone, will present users a map with business where this technology may be used. Taking advantage of the possibilities of geolocation and Google Maps features, users will be informed of the establishments where you can pay with your phone.

Black Public Culture

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EE UU educatuivos centres are trying to attract students with the creation of courses such as Religion and culture hip hop or Lady Gaga and the sociology of Fame. The course on Lady Gaga is a sociology, not about music. The return to classes starts in United States and schools seek new proposals to attract students with courses such as Religion and hip hop taught by musicians, rappers and dj s or seminars with diverse subjects that looks at the brilliant success of Lady Gaga. Rapper Bun B, Member of the duo UGK (UnderGround Kingz), is one of them and has decided to combine his passion for music with the classes, this time not as a student but as a teacher. Bun B, along with other two professors in the Department of Humanities and religious studies of the Rice University of Houston (Texas) teaches a seminar on Religion and hip hop culture.

The aim is to teach that modern music is not incompatible with religion and can be a support for young people than through letters rapeadas many times they ask about the meaning of life, indicates the course manual. We’re showing the cases in which hip-hop and religion have the same goals and a common ideology in the context of culture, stated the rapper in an interview recorded by the digital portal The Root. Some of the topics of discussion on which students will discuss will be the ethics of hip-hop or rap should be included in the ecclesiastical music to attract young people, as it anticipates the syllabus of the course, available on the website of the University. Dj 9th Wonder, winner of a Grammy, also joins this new trend and be taught along with the Professor of African American studies at Duke University, Mark Anthony Neal, a seminar on music and African-American popular culture. Class has as a bedside book the work of own Neal What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture, which focuses on African American musical traditions from jazz to the beginnings of hip-hop.