1205 Results from 2008
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I've not had my daily dose of Dilbert today. It seems the site has been redesigned and gone all "web 2.0". This alone can be the kiss of death - but in this case it's even worse as it doesn't work at all on Firefox, whereas IE6 reports this exciting snippet: Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required site.inc/publ...
18 April 2008 Whatever...
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
The newly-merged Thomson Reuters combo made an inauspicious start to its first day's trading yesterday. Brokers, spooked by the rising tide of red ink and job losses in the investment banking sector, responded with a clamour of sell notes, sending shares in the company tumbling on its market debut. But just how far did the stock fall? The answer t...
18 April 2008 /wholesale Finextra50 fintech index
It’s always discouraging to read the latest statistics that show significant gender pay gaps. The Office for National Statistics now say that although male / female pay divide has almost disappeared among young people, as women get older and are having children, men are earning over 20% more than their female counterparts. Despite great advances i...
18 April 2008 Women in Technology
A little reality check on the security front. Personal Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in public places in the U.K.: 5 million Average number of times a Briton is filmed on CCTV in one day: 300 Crime reduction in UK credited to CCTV: 5% Americans using the same password for most online accounts: 63% Average number of people with acce...
18 April 2008 /security Information Security
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
I’m always amused by security companies generating PR with a title such as “Phishers take aim at XYZ!”. So I was amused as well to see the article titled Phishers take aim at MasterCard SecureCode That’s because Phishers will hit ANYTHING these days. From good old banks, credit unions and building societies, through security programs and governme...
18 April 2008 /security Online Banking
‘World’s First Large-Scale Use of Information Cards in the Public Sector’[1] Eduserv to Streamline Access and Identity Management Future Plans to Provide All Councils and Residents with Information Cards Bath, 17th April 2008 – Eduserv, the not-for-profit IT services group, today announces the launch of a pioneering project to enable ten local a...
18 April 2008 /security /payments Information Security
I don't intend to debate the censorship laws or drinking ages, but it is absolutely neccesary to enable children to prove they are childen, and young adults to prove they are of age. Enter the mobile phone - why don't we use it to let the kids prove they are kids on their chat sites? It might go some way to keeping the perverts out. There is no ab...
18 April 2008 /security Whatever...
If you can take horror movies, you may like to view this stomach churningly awful video. Apparently it was made to help Microsoft folk not take themselves so seriously all the time. Would it help them if other folk outside Microsoft made an extra special effort and didn't take them at all seriously either? I know not. I'll give it a go tho'. Alw...
17 April 2008 Video extravaganza
Talking of Microsoft - it seems they're currently enhancing Vista security by disabling mice and keyboards. Accidentally. Oops. Do take care Chris! I digress. One criticism I have of the current crop of Macbook Pro computers is that you can't fold them out flat - which means I couldn't use my old laptop stand at home. Hence I've developed a pai...
17 April 2008
When you fail to indicate and get pulled over by a Police Officer, what do they want to know? whether you are a licensed driver if you are 'wanted' whether you were warned about not indicating recently and need to be fined to teach you properly. Sort of charging a fee to stop and educate you. NOT your name, date of birth, home address, ... ...
17 April 2008 /security /payments Whatever...
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