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Mobile firms claim e-money laws threaten m-commerce
News Europe's mobile phone companies are urging the European Commission to interfere as little as possible with the rollout of 3G services, amid concerns that forthcoming legislation on e-money could damage m-commerce.
[May 23, 2002, 13:21]
Oyster e-money shelved amid cost wrangling
News A spokeswoman for the transport authority said it remains committed to an Oyster e-money scheme and still wants to expand the functionality of the card. No one's ever procured e-money before so we didn't know the negotiations would be so long and...
[May 10, 2006, 10:40]
New rules tighten up e-money market
News Rules introduced on Friday to regulate the digital cash industry should help protect consumers against ill-conceived e-money operations, but lawyers warn they could also restrict the market to all but the biggest companies.
[April 26, 2002, 16:56]
Singapore embraces e-money
News Paper money took its first step to becoming obsolete Tuesday with the announcement by Singapore that e-money will be legal tender in Singapore by 2008. If you want to give it to your kids for pocket money, you pass it on to them by phone.
[December 19, 2000, 13:37]
News Burst: E*Trade, MS Money in pact
News E*Trade Group will become a sponsor of Microsoft's Money 2000 financial software. Headlines and financial links from E*Trade will be featured on the investing, tax and business centers of the software program.
[November 11, 1999, 16:00]
Sweden: Public e-procurement System Saves Taxpayers' Money
White Papers Accepting the common wisdom that a lot of taxpayers' money can be saved by coordinating public procurement procedures, the Swedish government established a coordination function for public procurement in 1998.
[May 20, 2005, 0:00]
EC examines e-money regulation
News Mobile operators, providers of premium rate services and others involved in m-commerce are being asked for their views on the extent to which pre-paid mobile transactions should be regulated under the EU's electronic money regime.
[May 28, 2004, 11:00]
Amstrad still losing money on the e-m@iler
News The e-m@iler is still taking a chunk out of Amstrad's wallet, more than three years after the Internet phone first went on sale -- but profitability may finally be close. Amstrad announced on Thursday that its Amserve business, which is responsible...
[September 25, 2003, 13:25]
News Burst: E-commerce makes money - it's official
News The revenue is not enough to save the ISP, which floated in July, from posting first quarter losses but the revelation e-commerce can be profitable will be one in the eye for critics claiming the free access model would never work.
[September 29, 1999, 7:19]
E-gold execs plead guilty in money-laundering case
News The executives in charge of online payment system E-gold have pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday. Principal E-gold director Douglas Jackson, who is also chief executive of E-gold affiliate Gold...
[July 23, 2008, 14:19]
Freeserve makes e-commerce gains
News Maybe there is money to be made on the Web after all. Money from advertising and e-commerce made up 52 percent of Freeserve's revenue. Freeserve this week announced it is, for the first time, making more cash from e-commerce and advertising than...
[September 29, 1999, 16:36]
Virtual worlds driving move to e-payments
News This is not only due to the money that credit and debit card systems cost retailers, it also comes from processing the cash in everyone's pockets. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's 2002 publication The Future...
[November 26, 2007, 8:12]
MPs demand more funding for e-crime unit
News MPs have called for more money to fund a new e-crime unit and end the image the UK is a "soft touch" on cybercrime. Conservative MP Nigel Evans said: "That amount of money may not be enough and the government may need to look at that again.
[November 6, 2008, 6:30]
First-e claims hate mail came from customer
News Internet bank First-E has suggested that a disgruntled customer may have sent out an email to thousands of people claiming that money has disappeared from its customer accounts. The email claims that First-E did not give interest to its customers...
[December 20, 1999, 16:43]
E-commerce remains Brown's budgetary blind spot
Leader Finance ministers love money. One of the best ways of making money these days is e-commerce. Not that the transition was trouble-free: many of the online gaming sites that disembarked in 2001 had left by 2003, citing difficulties caused by anti...
[March 22, 2006, 15:05]
Free set-top boxes for all to end digital divide
News The company -- dubbed Freebox -- plans to make money from e-commerce and advertising, although no content deals have yet been announced. Our policy is to make money through arrangements with these companies, not from the man in the street".
[September 27, 2000, 15:31]
Net payment firm guarantees against online fraud
News Chargebacks -- where shoppers claim back money from e-tailers either as a result of fraud or bad service -- are used by Internet payment companies as a monitor of online fraud and represent just 0.004 percent of all payments processed by WorldPay.
[December 12, 2000, 11:00]
Major spammer pays $1m settlement
Talkback I wonder, how much money he actually made from sending out so much spam email? How many people he has fooled into spending money on the services he was 'spamvertising'? Lets say he was sending out 5 million e-mails every single day.
[June 6, 2006, 12:32]
NetBSD makes cash plea
News In an e-mail to NetBSD's community, spokesperson Thor Lancelot Simon said the money would be used to upgrade the hardware infrastructure facilitating development of the project, a Unix variant which aims to run on as many platforms as possible.
[June 14, 2005, 15:35]
EU sees potential in e-government
News Online services have 'huge potential' to save time and money but they need to be more user friendly, says the European Union While e-services such as tax returns, online VAT, social security benefits, car registration and birth and marriage...
[January 17, 2005, 14:25]
