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MasterCard aims to stuff rival cards into its digital wallet

...MasterCard has unveiled PayPass Wallet Services, its own take on the digital wallet... Read more

8 May, 2012 by Roger Cheng
Google Wallet hits the town: In pictures

Google Wallet hits the town: In pictures

...its digital wallet in May; now Google Wallet can be used anywhere MasterCard PayPass terminals are placed. To test out how easy it is to... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Marguerite Reardon

Up to 1.5m MasterCard, Visa account details hacked

...As many as 1.5 million Visa and MasterCard accounts may have been compromised by the recent Global Payments security breach... Read more

2 April, 2012 by Steven Musil

Wikileaks able to process MasterCard and Visa payments

...as it is once again able to process payments via Visa and MasterCard. The two companies cut off payments to the whistle-blower site in... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

MasterCard sites down, Anonymous claims responsibility

...MasterCard websites in Europe and the US went down on Wednesday, with a... Read more

8 December, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Wikileaks loses access to MasterCard payments

...MasterCard is pulling the plug on payments to Wikileaks, a move that will... Read more

7 December, 2010 by Declan McCullagh

Ultrabooks to allow tap-and-pay for online shopping

...Intel and MasterCard are working together to allow customers to pay for online purchases by... Read more

14 November, 2011 by Roger Cheng

Government teams up with business on Midata scheme

...data. Midata will present consumer data held by organisations including Google and MasterCard back to individuals in a standardised electronic format. Photo credit: BIS Firms... Read more

4 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Wikileaks shuts off publication after funds dry up

...have costs of $3.5m (£2.2m) next year.Cut off payments MasterCard, Visa and PayPal cut off processing of payments made to Wikileaks after... Read more

24 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Wikileaks to sue MasterCard, Visa over payment blocks

...Wikileaks said on Friday that it intends to sue Visa and Mastercard for blocking donations to the service, an action it described as "an... Read more

5 July, 2011 by Staff
Anonymous and DDoS: I predict a riot

Anonymous and DDoS: I predict a riot

...The online attacks on MasterCard and PayPal attributed to the Anonymous activist group could be a portent... Read more

2 January, 2011 by Rik Ferguson
Wikileaks gets ZDNet readers' support

Wikileaks gets ZDNet readers' support

...remain accessible. Organisations have come under attack from pro-Wikileaks supporters. PayPal, MasterCard and Visa have all had customer-facing sites taken offline by distributed... Read more

20 December, 2010 by Tom Espiner

MasterCard supports halting transactions to pirate sites

...MasterCard is willing to stop processing transactions from sites trafficking in pirated music... Read more

17 December, 2010 by Greg Sandoval

War of web continues over Wikileaks saga

...Visa's site on Twitter. Screenshot: CNET News The group hit the MasterCard site with a distributed denial-of-service attack for the same reason... Read more

9 December, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Hartlepool student charged over Anonymous attacks

...distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a number of organisations, including MasterCard, PayPal and Visa; the security company HBGary; and the ACS:Law firm... Read more

25 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

2 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

6 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

8 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

9 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

12 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

13 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

14 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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