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Ozzie takes Microsoft beyond Windows
News Online banking application developer Intelligent Environments, for instance, said Silverlight is appealing because the company's staff of C# programmers will be able to write web applications with a compelling user interface.
[May 3, 2007, 17:26]
Egg isn't the only bank cracked
News It appears those responsible may have planned to take out loans that would not subsequently be paid back, although banking experts suggest that money laundering may have been the motivation. The Financial Times reports that NCS enquiries suggest...
[August 24, 2000, 12:52]
Get real with high availability
News This is especially true with online banking, Internet services, e-commerce systems, and other essential utilities such as electricity, water, and communications. This level of availability is normally demanded in critical systems that provide...
[January 6, 2003, 12:59]
Jane Wakefield: The silly season of surveys
News The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is more normally associated with finding fault with the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) bill but it turns its attention this week to online banking.
[July 7, 2000, 15:12]
Worm exposes laziness and Microsoft bugs
News We are currently experiencing problems that may cause online banking to operate more slowly than normal," the message stated. The worm disrupted more than 13,000 Bank of America automated teller machines, and late Saturday the company was still...
[January 27, 2003, 7:02]
End of support for Windows 98 sparks IE 6 scare
News In its email, the UK's FirstDirect, which is a division of the HSBC banking giant, said that from 30 June, 2003, Microsoft is removing the option to download Internet Explorer 6 for specific operating systems.
[June 6, 2003, 15:43]
Roundup: Dot-com downturn - where do companies go from here?
News Mon, 19th Jun 2000 Investors' faith in the tech stock market is on the rise again, according to Goldman Sachs investment banking MD Paul Harvey On average, visitor volume at online sites grew 65 percent, conversion of visitors to customers improved...
[August 31, 2000, 13:05]
Soca puts a clamp on cybercrime
News The agency worked with the FBI to secure nearly 60 arrests in connection with the DarkMarket forum — where stolen credit card and banking details were traded — helping to save more than $70m (£46.2m) in potential losses.
[May 15, 2009, 11:45]
Exclusive: Microsoft, USWeb set to dance
News HP is banking on the fast-growing services companies to perpetuate its vision of hosted applications and online services -- hopefully using HP's hardware and its pre-beta E-speak brokering technology.
[September 22, 1999, 12:06]
Government reports sharp cyber-crime rise
News The banking industry's credit association also recently estimated that although online commerce currently only accounts for two percent of all credit card transactions in the UK, it generates around 50 percent of all customer complaints.
[January 20, 2000, 10:20]
The Day Ahead: Diversification pays off for Go2Net
News Although the current online advertising market is nice, Horowitz is clearly banking on broadband advertising in the future. Horowitz acknowledged that the "concerns about online advertising are well-founded", but said the top 20 Web properties won...
[July 18, 2000, 13:01]
Murdoch planning search acquisition
News America Online also is in the process of reinventing itself as a free portal, opening up its Time Warner content that was previously walled off to subscribers and banking on the surging demand for broadband access.
[August 15, 2005, 17:15]
They know where you're shopping
News The companies involved say they're doing nothing that hasn't been done by banking institutions in "real world" retailing for at least ten years. The list of personal information sent by online merchants to Cybersource is thorough -- according to...
[August 4, 2000, 13:59]
Analysts shrug off Freeserve share drop
News But several recent reports, including the government's e-commerce@its.best.uk, have pointed out underlying issues, such as the UK's banking system, that are holding Britain back in the online-business race.
[September 21, 1999, 13:37]
A Year Ago: Nationwide puts faith in biometrics
News Building society to test voice-recognition for telephone banking, with a possible rollout beginning in six months. The trial, to be carried out by the Nationwide building society over the next six months, will allow consumers to access telephone...
[September 29, 2000, 7:02]
Microsoft tests out mobile .Net
News The company has also outlined a plan to wade into the consumer area with an initiative called .Net My Services, which eventually will allow consumers to access their personal information online on any device and do everything from shopping and...
[April 17, 2002, 14:36]
Malware rises as stock market falls, claims report
News The recent malware spikes could be due to the fact that cybercriminals now have fewer possible targets following consolidation in the banking industry, and the perception of instability in the financial community could be causing panic even within...
[October 23, 2008, 11:11]
Tony Blair warns Britain's business
News The report recommends another OFTEL review of broadband services and the monopoly of BT and called on Don Cruickshank, through his Independent Banking Review, to urge the banks to make it easier for start-ups to set up online credit processing.
[September 13, 1999, 16:32]
MSN Messenger 4.6 review
Reviews The .Net Alert connection is important, since Microsoft is banking on this technology to bring in big money eventually. The latter is a Web-based service that you can use to stay on top of everything from sports scores to online auctions, courtesy...
[February 18, 2002, 23:00]
A Year Ago: Tony Blair warns Britain's business
News The report recommends another OFTEL review of broadband services and the monopoly of BT and called on Don Cruickshank, through his Independent Banking Review, to urge the banks to make it easier for start-ups to set up online credit processing.
[September 13, 2000, 7:01]
