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One Million Financial Transactions Per Hour Using Oracle Database 10g And XA
White Papers This paper shows at Fannie Mae how they managed to achieve a throughput of over 1 million financial transactions per hour using XA. XA is very important in these environments because it ensures integrity of complex distributed business transactions...
[February 3, 2005, 2:00]
PROSA Is Able To Process Over 800 Million Transactions With Avaya IP Telephony Solutions
White Papers The company wanted to improve business continuity with its more than 85,000 point of sale terminals and automatic teller machines, to make more than 2 million transactions daily, to reduce costs, improve efficiency and upgrade obsolete technology.
[September 5, 2006, 0:00]
Hannafords Supermarket Loses Up To 4.2m Records
Blog A Hannaford's employee told ZDNet.co.uk on Tuesday that 2000 of the compromised customer credit and debit card details have been used in fraudulent transactions, and confirmed that it may have lost up to 4.2 million details.
[March 18, 2008, 17:16]
IBM Server Speeds Past Rivals
News A $16.7m configuration of the company's eServer p5-595 performed 3.21 million transactions per minute on the TPC-C test from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC-C), IBM said on Wednesday.
[November 19, 2004, 7:45]
IBM Claims Server-speed Victory Over Intel
News A $5.6m (£2.94m) 32-processor IBM p690 was able to perform 1.025 million transactions per minute on the Transaction Processing Performance Council TPC-C test. The previous top score for a nonclustered system, 1.008 million transactions per minute...
[February 18, 2004, 9:45]
UK's Lax Wireless Security Threatens TJX-style Hack
News Retailers handling up to six million Visa transactions in the UK are not subject to an independent audit to check they are compliant with PCI DSS security standards that can block such hacks. The smaller retailers, handling hundreds of thousands or...
[August 7, 2008, 8:22]
M-commerce Not Winning Over Consumers
News Despite the much-touted benefits of "m-commerce" -- such as buying goods or completing financial transactions via mobile phones or other handheld devices -- several large companies are quietly shutting down their wireless services, and more are...
[September 9, 2002, 13:09]
Mobile Banking Set For Rapid Growth
News In its report, Mobile Financial Services: Banking & Payment Markets 2007-2011, Juniper forecasts there will be an additional 517 million mobile users of MFS over that four-year period, with a total of 612 million users globally generating more...
[June 19, 2008, 9:22]
Betfair: Taking No Chances With Technology
News We take around two million transactions a day now, and we serve over 80 million page views, which has more than doubled since the start of the year. Given that Betfair matches some 1.5 million transactions a day - 24 hours a day, seven days a week...
[November 30, 2004, 15:40]
Festive Buying Slays Records
News VeriSign reported that its payment services group processed more than 23.6 million Internet merchant transactions, totalling approximately $3.5bn in online sales between 1 November and 16 December. Over the same period last year, VeriSign recorded...
[December 22, 2003, 9:55]
Servers Get New Database Speed Test
News An IBM machine tested in 2006 and currently No.in the TPC-C rankings with a score of 4.03 million transactions per minute cost $12m. HP topped that score with 4.09 million transactions per minute with another $12m machine.
[March 19, 2007, 9:30]
E-commerce: Are You Being Served?
News Linking the telephone to the Internet will make e-commerce more attractive to consumers and will help get round the problem of abandoned transactions, according to Datamonitor analyst David Hall. With many e-commerce sites reporting a high number...
[February 17, 1999, 14:27]
E*Trade Beats Estimates But Doesn't Grow
News Transactions had actually fallen slightly from 5.1 million in the third quarter, or 80,600 a day, to 80,350 a day in the fourth quarter. Meanwhile, transactions were flat after showing 15 percent sequential growth in the third quarter.
[October 13, 1999, 15:28]
IBM's Power5+ Chip Boosts Top-end Unix Servers
News Along with the new server, IBM plans to announce a new world record on the TPC-C server speed test, with the p5-595 able to perform 4.02 million database transactions per minute. The top non-IBM result is a 2005 test of HP's Itanium-based Superdome...
[July 25, 2006, 10:30]
PayPal Goes International
News Around 25 percent of all transactions involve at least one party who is outside the United States. But the real goal is to move beyond international transactions to intra-national transactions, Sacks said.
[September 26, 2002, 15:02]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo! Dominates
News Yahoo enabled about $670m transactions in the fourth quarter. The company also enabled more than $1bn in transactions on its network. Blodget expected 505 million page views. Page views were 625 million per day in March.
[April 6, 2000, 12:21]
Is There A Smart Card In Your Future?
News The proliferation of set-top boxes and mobile phones -- both of which will allow consumers to carry out e-commerce transactions -- has also multiplied the number of access points that can use smart cards.
[February 8, 2000, 9:53]
Trials Begin For Phone-operated Vending Machines
News An IDC report into m-commerce scheduled for publication next week will predict that the future for small payment mobile transactions in Europe will not take off until 2005. We expect that [mobile transactions] will be very big -- there will be a...
[August 8, 2001, 17:02]
Dell Sees Half Sales Coming From Web
News Dell's keynote at Fall Internet World began with a simulated newscast featuring a reporter who said the Internet is a niche market, a fad used only for consumer surfing or simple business transactions, and that it would level the playing field...
[December 12, 1997, 9:06]
Phishing Attacks Highlight Banks' Weaknesses
News Criminals "succeed when the card-issuing bank is not validating security codes on the magnetic strip of the card while authorizing transactions," Avivah Litan, Gartner research director, said in a statement.
[August 3, 2005, 9:00]
