Free model is not sustainable - experts agree
News AltaVista, cable company ntl and UK ISP breathe.net are all offering unlimited Internet calls either completely free or for a one-off initial payment of between £30 and £50. AltaVista -- hoping to attract 0.5 million users within six months...
[March 15, 2000, 6:34]
Google readying Web-only video search
News The search giant outlined plans for a payment service when it launched its video-upload program in April. In the long term, Google is preparing a payment system for a premium video service that would let people pay to watch full video clips.
[June 14, 2005, 12:50]
Escaping PCI purgatory. Compliance roadblocks and stories of real-world successes
White Papers By now, any companies driving high volumes of credit card transactions that are not compliant with the payment card industry (PCI) data security standards (DSS) faces steep penalties. This white paper deals with the PCI DSS compliance challenges...
[March 11, 2009, 15:12]
Representing Agent Contracts With Exceptions Using XML Rules, Ontologies, and Process Descriptions
White Papers Here, they newly extend the Sweet-Deal approach by also incorporating process knowledge descriptions whose ontologies are represented in DAML+OIL, thereby enabling more complex contracts with behavioral provisions, especially for handling...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Yahoo!, Visa expand payment deal globally
News Under an agreement finalised on Tuesday between Visa International and the Internet portal, Visa will become the default payment option for international versions of Yahoo! Visa International will also feature special deals available only on Yahoo!
[May 30, 2001, 9:14]
Super Mega Blackjack Supreme for Symbian
Downloads Each game can be personalized for your style of play.Double Down on any hand including split hands.Real casino style action with Blackjack payouts at 3 to 2 and Insurance payouts at 2 to 1.Automatically handle Aces as 1 or 11.Simple to use...
[August 10, 2007, 8:00]
Super Mega Blackjack Supreme for Blackberry
Downloads Each game can be personalized for your style of play.Double Down on any hand including split hands.Real casino style action with Blackjack payouts at 3 to 2 and Insurance payouts at 2 to 1.Automatically handle Aces as 1 or 11.Simple to use...
[August 6, 2007, 8:00]
Apple pays $100m to end Creative battle
News Apple can get back some of the $100m payment if Creative is able to secure licensing deals with other mp3 player manufacturers, said Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman. He declined to specify exactly how much Apple could recoup or how many deals it...
[August 24, 2006, 9:00]
Wippit wants to make MP3-sharing legit
News All Wippit file transfers will be recorded, so the company claims it will know the royalty payment that each record company is owed. However, the company has not yet made any deals with record labels, casting doubts on the legality of its service.
[November 6, 2000, 15:30]
Day 1 - 'euro going smoothly'
News Barclays made its first euro payment for a corporate customer at 9:03am today and the deal -- importing wood from Germany to England -- was "successfully completed" according to a Barclays spokeswoman.
[January 4, 1999, 15:12]
A Year Ago: Day 1 - 'euro going smoothly'
News Barclays made its first euro payment for a corporate customer at 9:03am today and the deal -- importing wood from Germany to England -- was "successfully completed" according to a Barclays spokeswoman.
[January 4, 2000, 6:04]
Wi-Fi market gets Divine intervention
News Divine Wireless is also pioneering a new payment model — its customers will pay per minute, rather than having to take out a fixed-length subscription like BT and The Cloud (who already have their own roaming agreements).
[December 21, 2006, 15:34]
NHS IT contractors to be paid £1.1bn extra
News The updated Spine contract deals with new requirements that have arisen since the contract was let and include such functionality to support the delivery of 'Payment by Results', the 18-week referral programme and the further development of the...
[September 9, 2008, 13:41]
AMD fires another antitrust salvo at Intel
News The complaint was prompted by a report in the German edition of the Financial Times, which claimed that the Media Markt retail electronics chain had agreed to only sell computers that used Intel's processors in return for a payment from the...
[July 17, 2006, 13:50]
State of California switches $4bn purchasing online
News It has hired Andersen Consulting to integrate the software with its PeopleSoft purchasing system and Visa International purchasing card payment system, known as CalCard. Information gained from the software also will be used to negotiate better...
[November 10, 1998, 9:10]
Will unmetered access come at the cost of quality?
News Search giant AltaVista has said it will offer unlimited surfing in return for between £10 and £20 per year after a one-off payment of £30 to £50. At first glance, Freeserve's unmetered offering, announced on Tuesday, may seem slightly less...
[March 15, 2000, 16:08]
Linspire Linux deal 'worse than Novell'
News That payment doesn't cover upgrades. The deals involve Microsoft pledging not to sue users of the Linux distributions over alleged — and unspecified — patent "violations" contained in the software. The terms of GPLv3 itself forbid any exclusive...
[July 23, 2007, 13:50]
IBM trumpets two European outsourcing deals
News IBM reported that payment from Zurich Financial will be made using a "pay per use" system for desktops, laptops, help desk support, printers and software support, which should let Zurich Financial lower hardware-related overhead and avoid upfront...
[December 12, 2003, 9:10]
Google: You have to pay to play
News Google's previous program, AdWords, was based on a traditional online system that required payment by the number of impressions delivered. In a separate report issued on Wednesday, Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Baldauf said Google's move could...
[February 21, 2002, 11:48]
HP talks up printer outsourcing
News As we deploy customers' imaging and printing fleets, there are a number of payment and support options," HP's imaging and printing chief, Vyomesh Joshi, said on the call. Hewlett-Packard said on Wednesday that it now has more than 625 customers for...
[October 9, 2003, 13:10]



