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Security Worries Holding Back Online Banking
News Also, more people are signing up for new financial and banking services online. Half of all new credit card applications were made online, and about 50 percent of mortgages, home equity loans and car loans were signed up for online, the study said.
[September 7, 2005, 9:20]
Mac-clone Company Back Online
News Psystar, a small Miami company which has met with much attention for offering cut-price Mac clones, has said it has resolved problems related to its online store and physical location, and is once again ready to accept orders.
[April 22, 2008, 8:59]
Music Online: Big Boys Team Up On Delivery System
News AT&T said earlier this week that it "wants to be a major player" in selling music online, and early involvement in promising new business areas such as the nascent music-delivery business could certainly help justify AT&T's heavy investment in...
[May 6, 1999, 15:08]
Hacker Mitnick Back Online
News Notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick went back online on Tuesday for the first time in nearly a decade. In addition, the former hacker has set up another eBay auction, for the Sony Vaio that he used to write his book and that he will use to get...
[January 22, 2003, 14:50]
Inland Revenue Online Service Doesn't Add Up
News Wednesday is the official deadline for filing self-assessment tax returns, a process some hoped might have been made easier and quicker by online forms debuted by Inland Revenue last April. But despite the theoretical appeal of filing online, the...
[January 31, 2001, 16:09]
The Day Ahead: Debate Heats Up Over Online Advertising Outlook
News That's the theory being tossed around by online advertising executives. The theory goes like this: Cash strapped dot-coms will turn away from expensive TV ads to focus on more effective online advertising.
[June 7, 2000, 12:32]
Newspapers Hit Back At Online Jobs Sites
News The fight escalated this week, when CareerBuilder.com announced exclusive deals with America Online and MSN that will lock rival Monster.com out of two of the most highly trafficked sites on the Web. Newspapers have long sought to hedge their bets...
[August 8, 2003, 12:35]
Anger As UK Government Promotes US Back-up Firms
News After complaining for months, online back-up services supplier Clunk Click has forced a change of heart from the Government over Get Safe Online, its Internet support site for companies and consumers.
[May 30, 2006, 15:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If you missed the fuss the first time around: the site went up ostensibly as an online focus for people who wanted to organise mob justice against suspected paedophiles. But it all seemed a bit too good to be true: connections were mooted between...
[October 4, 2002, 18:06]
AOL Ads Get Bigger, Wider, Richer
News Months after America Online cut back on sales of imposing pop-up advertisements, the Web property plans to showcase a new style of attention-grabbing promotions. In the online ad market, where there aren't a lot of dollars and everybody's fighting...
[August 22, 2002, 8:13]
UK Fails To Back Up For The Future
News The survey was published by Backup360, which sells online back-up services for SMEs and home users. Such online backup systems are becoming increasingly common, with storage firm NDO and BT both launching such services this month.
[December 15, 2003, 8:30]
Cash Back For Power Saving
News The offline drive comes back online if the data residing on it is required. Persistent storage sits halfway between online storage and off-line backup. Online backup needs to be fed constantly with power, while tapes sit offline and are accessed...
[April 13, 2007, 16:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Over there, an online storage company closed down and swallowed the files of one and a half million users: it'll give them back if the owners cough up $25. One recent online survey we did showed 25 percent of readers lost data that way more than...
[April 27, 2002, 0:03]
KPNQwest Struggles Back After Shutdown - But For How Long?
News Early Wednesday evening, one of Europe's largest Internet backbones, KPNQwest, was switched off, but it is now coming back online, according to operators. Central European Time, 50 percent of the network was back online, and it will all be working...
[July 25, 2002, 10:46]
Online Storage Could Risk Your Files
News Mark Wyatt called his divorce from free online storage company Myspace.com "amiable," saying he used the site for back-up and was able to retrieve his files. Among the fallen are numerous online storage companies that have gone belly-up or shut...
[April 22, 2002, 14:02]
Company Founders Buy Back Labours Of Love
News Others who stepped back into the e-commerce game to reclaim their companies include Eric Silverman, who bought back his online pet specialty store, Flying Fish Express, from Pets.com, and Zorba Lieberman of health information site Citeline.
[February 19, 2001, 10:11]
PayPal Alert! Beware The 'PaypaI' Scam
News A scam artist last night created an exact replica of PayPal.com and used the fake site to attempt to pilfer user names and passwords from customers of the online payment system. PayPal, with 2.6 million customers, is easily the largest online...
[July 24, 2000, 10:14]
Cleaning Up After The MSBlast Worm
Talkback I run Windows XP HOME ----on a Dell----and access dial up to get online. I purchased TREND MICRO SECURITY PC-CILLIN PROTECTION that my cop friend ranted and raved about---and even had excellent reviews online---and installed it.
[March 29, 2004, 9:04]
Napster Clones Spy On P2P Users
News Dubbed "adware" or "spyware" by their critics, these software programs run in the background even when the original file-swapping software isn't operating, popping up advertisements while people surf online, and sometimes quietly uploading...
[May 15, 2001, 7:45]
MSN Disconnects Free Long-distance
News The move to curtail free Net phone service comes as online companies are pulling back on giveaways hatched at the height on the dot-com frenzy, when growth was considered more important than profits. The pullback has hit Microsoft before, with the...
[February 7, 2001, 10:27]
