The Metropolitan Police, the police force responsible for Greater London, has announced that it will begin using a mobile device data extraction system that will give its officers the ability to extract data from a mobile device in a matter of minutes. The said system will use Radio Tactics’ ACESO Kiosk, a touchscreen device that will be deployed in the city. According to Radio Tactics, the ACESO Kiosk has the capability to extract data including call history, photos, videos, and email and social networking info from a phone at an average time of 20 minutes.

Android users no doubt hate to admit this, but it will probably take Apple being on board with NFC for there to be real change in the NFC marketplace. Once Steve Jobs’s ghost tells Tim Cook it’s okay to make an NFC-enabled phone, merchants and payment companies will finally have some initiative to make NFC payments widely-accepted.

SureView detects potential threats and eliminate false positives for innocuous behavior, said West Point computer science professor Col. Greg Conti.

“It was very powerful, very flexible and allowed you to monitor with very fine resolution activities on the desktop, and the real trick becomes how you detect anomalous behavior,” Conti said. “Predictive models are kind of the holy grail. When you see that no one else has done something but bad guys, you can start being predictive.”

At SAIC, which is testing a behavior analytics system, Beard likened behavioral modeling to the Pre-Crime unit from the science fiction movie “Minority Report.” Instead of using psychics to stop crimes before they occur, the software would be programmed to detect behavior that has preceded malicious acts in the past.

In real life, researchers are examining the behavior of malicious insiders to see what actions they took before they acted out. That in turn would be used to teach the software what behavior to flag.

The Stavanger branch stopped taking cash on May 1st, bringing it in line with company policy. Of Nordea’s 98 branches in Norway, only nine still handle cash.

Nordea spokesman Thomas Sevang explained that the bank was in the process of automating all its cash services and was installing new machines for withdrawing and depositing cash across its network.

”He [Berge] has encountered the bank of the future,” said Sevang.

Active protection systems have to go alongside this, it says, and Brussels expects net firms to bring in “transparent default age-appropriate privacy settings”.

It also wants industry to create a system that can electronically authenticate and identify children to ensure they do not stray onto inappropriate sites or see material unsuitable for them.

To back this up, the commission will later this year unveil a framework for the electronic authentication system that is based around age. This will help with both data protection and child safety, it says.

ISIS has announced that its Mobile Wallet platform will support three different American Express cards when it eventually launches later in the year. The credit card company originally teamed up with ISIS last July — alongside the likes of Master Card, Visa, and Discover — and today revealed that the agreement will include support for its US Consumer, Open Small Business, and Serve cards. The deal will let consumers add the cards to a virtual wallet, which they can use to shop using an NFC-enabled smartphone.

Support for the cards will begin later this year when ISIS will make its debut in two pilot cities: Austin and Salt Lake City. While ISIS has managed to build up a pretty solid line-up of partners prior to launch — the service is actually a joint venture between AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon — it remains to be seen whether or not consumers actually want to use mobile payment solutions. In the mean time, we’ll just have to watch the likes of ISIS, Google Wallet, V.me, and PayPass Wallet duke it out for supremacy.

Facebook is testing a new feature called Highlight that allows users to pay a nominal fee to promote their posts, making them more prominent in others’ news feeds. Last year Facebook raked in $1.14 billion in revenue, about 85 percent of which is from ads, but this would be the first time the site attempts to monetize ordinary posts.

A week ago, Microsoft quietly changed how Bing search results look and work, but this week the company is making a much bigger change: Bing will soon provide a completely new user experience that is the biggest change in the service’s three year life. (It will debut in early June, Microsoft says.)

“Increasingly, the web is about much more than simply finding information by navigating a topically organized graph of links,” says Microsoft president Qi Lu. “We’re evolving search in a way that recognizes new user paradigms like the growth of the social graph, and will empower people with the broad knowledge of the Web alongside the help of their friends.”