Google has officially launched its new Google Wallet mobile payment service - a mobile application with which you can pay for purchases in stores using a smartphone using Near Field Communication (NFC) contactless technology. Using Google Wallet, to pay for goods and services, you just need to attach a smartphone with a NFC chip to a special reader and enter a PIN code, after which the money for the purchase is debited from a credit card.

Google has released a new, fourteenth version of the Chrome browser. Users of this Internet facetor are strongly recommended to update the program, since 32 vulnerabilities were eliminated in the security system of the new version, compared with the previous one. Half of them has a "high" degree of danger (one step to "critical"). The eliminated "holes" allowed the attackers to replace the URL or introduce malicious code. Two new functions also appeared in Chrome 14.

The international rating agency Standard & Poor's lowered the long -term credit rating of Italy by one step - from "A plus" to "A", the forecast is negative, Reuters reports. A decrease in the rating reflects the deterioration of economic growth prospects in Italy.

Kingston Digital has announced the release of Kingston Wi-Drive portable wireless flash drive to the Russian market. The novelty is capable of working with iPhone, iPad and iPod devices.

The leading tennis players in the world threaten to declare a strike if the Association of Professional Tennis players (APR) and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) will not reduce the number of competitions per year. Players intend to meet in Shanghai in front of a major tournament of the Masters series and discuss the issue of super -dense, in their opinion, calendar. One of the leaders of the "tennis rebels" is British Andy Murray.

The Russian team in the match of the 2nd round of the group stage of the Rugby World Cup , which takes place these days in New Zealand, lost to the Italian team with a score of 17:53 (7:38). Throughout the match, the Russians hardly opposed a powerful Italian attack, but they themselves occasionally organized sharp breakthroughs ( video ).

In the United States, another person died as a result of injuries received when a small aircraft falls on the rostrum during the Nevada air show. Thus, the total number of victims of the tragedy reached ten, reports Reuters. On Friday, September 16, a sports plane fell to one of the stands with spectators at the airfield in the city of Rino, where the National Aircraft Sports Championship was held. Seven people died on the spot, the rest of the victims died in hospitals.

People who need to constantly have a mobile phone with themselves, even during the driving, can suffer from a disorder associated with an increased degree of anxiety. Scientists from the University of Arkansas conducted an analysis of the behavior of 451 volunteers.

In the Moscow Patriarchate, they advocated that they were allowed to adopt newborns in Russia. “We do not propose to give refuseniks to orphanages. The church will find people who will adopt a child. Just the legislation should provide the opportunity to adopt it is newborns,” said Bishop of Smolensk and Vyazemsky Panteleimon in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper. .

The Moscow "Spartak" offered the ex-coach of Liverpool and the Milan Inter the Spaniard Rafael Benitz for two years, says "Soviet sport" with reference to the Insidefutbol.com portal. Under the terms of the agreement, Benitest will receive three million euros for each year in the Moscow club. The Spanish specialist has been without work since dismissal from the post of head of Inter in December last year.

The American company Apple, which produces some of the most popular smartphones and tablet computers, again bypassed the Exxon Mobil oil giant in terms of market capitalization. On Monday, on Monday, on Monday, the stock of shares of a company with an apple logo at once reached 411.5 dollars-the highest possible number for trading on Monday, on Monday, ITAR-TASS reports. Apple's market value reached $ 381.4 billion.

Sigurni Weaver confirmed that it would be shot in the Avatar sequel (Avatar, 2009), the cash register film of all time, OpenSpace reports a link to the Digital Spy resource. The actress also said that director James Cameron had already shared with her the synopsis of the next two parts of the saga, and he is "absolutely wonderful." According to the plot of the original film, the character Weaver died.

The Ministry of Finance intervened in the debate of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Central Bank about the ruble exchange rate that arose after the Deputy Minister of Economic Development Andrei Klepach announced the overvaluation of the ruble exchange rate, and the Central Bank did not agree with this. The Ministry of Finance supports the policy of the Central Bank and considers the current ruble course to be adequate.

The State Duma of Russia on Tuesday held an unscheduled "government hour", dedicated to security issues in connection with a series of large -scale disasters of recent times. First of all, this is the collapse of the Yak-42 aircraft, in which the Yaroslavl hockey team "Lokomotiv" died on September 7, and the flooding of the Bulgaria ship on the Volga on July 10, whose victims were 122 people.

A week ago, in the Moscow district, North Izmailovo began demolishing the building of the shelter for homeless and disabled people, founded by the nuns of the Catholic Order "Missionaries of Mercy" - followers of the mother of Teresa. As the Izvestia newspaper notes, the demolition of the building was made by court decision - as Samostroy. Moscow became the first city in the world to sue (successfully) with the Order of the sisters of the mother of Teresa.