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Data At Risk During Travel - Warning

Association of Corporate Travel Executives advice to business travelers states: That you should not carry any confidential, personal information that you do not want examined by third parties on you...

26 Apr 2008
Information Security
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I know I'm hard on Telcos but...really

Here's a couple of examples how the Telco's get together to advance the mobile internet and m-commerce. £9,737.12 to update your kids computer game via your T-Mobile UK 'web 'n' walk while on holida...

25 Apr 2008
Whatever...
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Under pressure. Or not, as the case may be

Parallels can be drawn betwen the airline industry of yesterday to the clearing and settlement space of today. As with the emergence of Airbus, which united a disjointed European air-manufacturing ma...

25 Apr 2008
Trends in Financial Services
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Confusion in the Mobile Payments Market

I don't know whether to be concerned or pleased that 100 million of us may be paying by mobile by 2011. The Gartner report suggests that: wireless application protocol (WAP), - requiring software an...

24 Apr 2008
Innovation in Financial Services
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Cash reigns supreme

Delegates attending the annual Digital Money Forum in London illustrated very effectively today that despite the increasing prevalence of card and electronic payments - cash is not dead but very much ...

24 Apr 2008
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100,000 reputable web pages are infected

The Register is reporting that determined hackers have injected malicious code into pages on supposedly reputable web sites. The compromised pages were attacked via SQL injection - this is typically w...

24 Apr 2008
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Walk to work day

I wish I'd known it was walk to work day - I would've done just that today, even tho' it would've been a bit of a hike from North Greenwich. Mind you it may have been quicker than the Jublilee line w...

24 Apr 2008
Going green
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The Solution - More functionality from Optical Readers

Retailers can have a Mobile Phone as an Optical Reader capable of reading paper codes/coupons and reading Mobile barcodes - the cost of such a unit can be less than Euros 150. With the right program ...

24 Apr 2008
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New Browser Security

Yeah Uh like the padlock thing? Secure? Way to go. I suppose we'll be safe now. Security is going green. What do I have to learn? Whats new? Oh that's right, it's all secure again now. DOH! So NO PAD...

23 Apr 2008
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Work life balance is a struggle

Recent research from the ‘Working Smarter, Not Harder’ networking event held by womenintechnology.co.uk and Microsoft highlighted some key problems for women working in IT surrounding work / life bala...

23 Apr 2008
Women in Technology
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Shouting after the horse has bolted is not ID protection

While I commend Secure Identity Systems on their efforts and encourage ID protection programs, I fail to see much use for a system which merely shouts from the gate saying 'Your identity is gone!' No...

23 Apr 2008
Whatever...
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Shocking

To hear that Steve Willey is shocked that people could have so many credit cards that they have forgotten one or more PINs is itself shocking. I receive more invitations to apply for credit cards than...

22 Apr 2008

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