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There is no doubt that the shortage of women in IT is partly due to a lack of girls interested in pursuing scientific and technological routes. And it doesn’t look like the situation is improving eith...
The adoption of contactless cards is another step towards a cashless society. The convenience factor comes at a price though and according to this study, it's the fear of fraud - but is this fear unfo...
We all love the seemingly pointless surveys / statements / research we so often read about. The latest one says that women are more likely to survive the current downturn than men. Why? The sweeping g...
The United Kingdom is the most targetted country for 419 scams - those pesky emails which offer millions of pounds after a few minor up-front arrangement fees. Almost a quarter of all Nigerian 419 sca...
It's great to see, in what others see as a fairly dry world, that asset servicing is heading up the agenda not just in the west, but also in the east. SWIFT is hosting two half day conferences for cu...
The issue of customers being held liable for their losses if they don't have the latest antivirus and personal firewall installed is ridiculous when we see bank's sites with major security flaws that ...
Is this fitting in with the GSMA - Western Union alliance? The telco's will get into bed with anyone for a slice of those transactions. I wonder if we'll see some trust between telco's come out of th...
Do you or any women you know work in technology within financial services? Have you, or they, made a significant contribution to the business? womenintechnology.co.uk is once again sponsoring the &quo...
Today is National Siesta Day in the UK, which aims to encourage company bosses to allow staff to have an afternoon power nap. On his Web site Noel Kingsley, founder of Siesta Awareness and organiser...
Clearly all those people signing up for the Visa thing have brought Facebook to its knees. At the time of writing when I try the site I get an Apache error message or a "document contains no data...
I was wondering if I can have as many ID cards as I want - who is paying for them? Do I need a reader? Blah Blah Blah... Internet Mark2- the only 'marks' it gets are the fools dumb enough to buy in t...
I've always thought that Moore's Law was really just an early illusion like the flat earth theory was for early explorers and that computers would soon make the jump to something significantly beyond ...