The British government has
allowed customers to deposit
cheques into their accounts by
taking photos of their cheques
on their smartphones and send
them to the bank electronically.
With this move, rather than
going to the bank in person,
customers will be able to pho-
tograph the cheque, and send
it electronically.
The British government is set
to launch a consultation on the
idea with a view to make the
necessary legal changes.
The new technology is ex-
pected to cut the time taken in
cheque processing from six to
two days.
Banks say that the new meth-
od will make cheque process
-
ing more convenient and more
secure.
In the United States of Ameri-
ca, this method has been ad-
opted 9 years back after the
attacks on the World Trade
Center.
The industry says that most
younger account holders pre-
fer e-payment systems and
rarely use cheques.
The British Barclays Bank is
set to introduce a pilot pro-
gramme for paying in cheques
via mobile phone in April 2014.
British banks to accept smart-
phone photos of cheques
Developers at Cydia store, provider
of Apple apps, have released a new
version of the store’s app to make it
more compatible with iOS-based de-
vices. The new app solves the prob-
lem faced by those who use Apple de-
vices running on iOS 7 after breakjail
their devices using the new evasi0n7
tool. The new app has been updated
with a flat look, in line with iOS 7. Sev
-
eral new icons and elements were
also added to the app’s interface. The
store’s developers have improved
the app’s performance making the
new Cydia release faster. Updates in
the new release are the biggest for
Cydia store since its launch. Cydia
is the main external app provider for
jailbroke iPhone and iPad, iPod as it
allows downloads of pirated apps.
Breaking iOS 7
protection system
40% of Android
users in UAE neglect
security
A survey conducted by B2B International
and Kaspersky Lab revealed that more
than 40% of Android-based smartphone
and tablet owners in the UAE do not use
any security software to protect their de-
vices against cyber-threats while Android
has become the most popular platform
for users. 58% of smartphone and 57%
of tablet owners in the UAE said that they
have installed a security solution on their
devices and are now using it. Other re-
spondents relied on the limited security
features integrated in the OS, or trust their
own instincts to keep them safe.
According to Kaspersky Security Network,
which accumulates data about urgent
cyber-threats, 99% of current malware
samples targeting mobile devices have
been developed for the Android platform.
And this threat is growing: Kaspersky Lab
specialists detected 35,000 malicious
samples for the whole of 2012, while the
figure for the first half of 2013 was over
47,000.
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