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• Telstra wins $90M networking deal with McDonald’s

  Telstra and McDonald’s have struck a $90 million network transformation deal.

• Wireless charging -- McDonald's is lovin' it

  McDonald's is installing 600 wireless charging stations for enabled mobile devices in 50 restaurants in the U.K.

• 5 Ways to Keep Your Devices Charged During Holiday Travel

  I'm at my local Starbucks, drinking a seasonal concoction. (A no-whip caramel brûlée.) I'm listening to tinkly piano music on Pandora while I work. And I'm charging my iPhone using one of Starbucks' new Duracell Powermat wireless charging "spots."

• McDonald’s Australia to roll out iOS, Android ordering app

  McDonald’s Australia is set to deploy an iOS and Android smartphone app that will allow customers to prepare a meal order before they arrive at the restaurant.

• Automation arrives at restaurants (but don't blame rising minimum wages)

  McDonald's this week told financial analysts of its plans to install self-ordering kiosks and mobile ordering at its restaurants. It isn't the only food chain doing this.

• Security, Payments Experts Talk Apple Pay

  You've likely heard that Apple took its first steps into the mobile payments industry this week with the launch of its Apple Pay NFC-based, contactless payment service.

• McDonald's US CIO on why it's supporting Apple Pay on launch day

  Deborah Hall-Lefevre is making the biggest bet of her 23-year IT career.

• What Remote Workers Really Do During Conference Calls

  Remote and mobile workers mean companies will have to conduct more conference calls to keep them in the loop. But what, exactly, are remote workers doing during these dial-in meetings? The answers may surprise you, according to results from a new InterCall survey of more than 500 full-time, remote workers.

• Shout.tv Live Events App Ready to Tackle the Super Bowl

  Shout.tv wanted to attract millions of fans of sports and other live events to play sponsored trivia games for cash and prizes. But each game was like a DDoS attack on its data centers. As a solution, the company turned to a distributed database management system called NuoDB.

• 6 Social Media Management Tools Ready for the Enterprise

  Social media is playing a growing role in corporate marketing campaigns. These six tools will help you launch, track and analyze campaigns across a variety of social media services -- including some you might not expect.

• T-Mobile spurns Google Wallet, in a decidedly 'un-un-carrier' decision

  Mobile payment is kind of like a slightly more realistic version of the flying car – a technology we've been hearing about seemingly forever that never really takes off. OK, so the analogy isn't perfect, given that a few companies are actually using things like Square and McDonald's has those tap pads for NFC payment, but given how long we've been hearing about it, you'd think it would be just a little more common by now.

• Electricity's in the air: Powermat ties the knot with PowerKiss

  Two leading wireless power companies, Powermat and PowerKiss, have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge.

• Twitter hack pays off, brings Burger King 60K new followers

  Burger King saw a surprising upside after its Twitter stream was recently compromised: Tens of thousands of people began following its account.

• Twitter calls for smarter password habits following Jeep, Burger King hacks

  Twitter is urging its account holders to be smarter with their passwords following two recent attacks by hackers directed at Burger King and Jeep that took control of those accounts.

• Transport for London ticketing chief dubious about mobile NFC

  The head of business development at Transport for London (TfL), whose Oyster card system is one of the most successful contactless ticketing programmes in the world, claims he is “not convinced” about mobile payments using NFC.