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Shopping for a Secure File Transfer Solution for Retail: Research and Best Practices Provided by the PCI Knowledge Base
White Papers Retailers and merchant service providers are under increasing pressure to adhere to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) in an effort to avoid costly fines - and the even more detrimental loss of customer confidence that results...
[July 13, 2009, 0:00]
Forrester revises IT spending predictions
News Rather than posting an upside above the base, Forrester is warning, at the extreme, the situation could get worse than its September base projections. Back in September, Forrester made a base prediction that IT spending would grow 6.1 percent in...
[October 16, 2008, 9:51]
BCS: Funding cuts will harm computing research
News Speaking on behalf of the research councils, professor Ian Diamond said: "The Research Base provides the intellectual energy to meet the challenges posed by globalisation. While we are satisfied that the government remains committed to the 10-year...
[February 27, 2007, 11:50]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com woes dash Amazon's revenue hopes
News We view these deals as an excellent way for Amazon to monetise its greatest asset -- its customer base," said Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget, in a February research note. We have been disappointed by the company's ability to monetise its...
[July 27, 2000, 11:58]
Schools panic over WiFi
Blog Comment I agree that there is almost no research (in fact, I have yet to find any published papers at all) on Wireless networks and health, however they are very similar to base stations in a number of ways (signal type, signal frequency, pulsing nature...
[November 22, 2006, 10:16]
Femtocells may solve operators' 3G woes
News Operators are having to face up to the challenge of providing high-quality indoor coverage to cater for habitual handset users, which — in one scenario — means more base stations to provide the necessary network density.
[November 26, 2007, 14:56]
One billion PCs now in use worldwide
News This figure represents 16 percent of the existing installed base, and around a fifth of these replaced PCs will be "dumped into landfill with little or no regard for their toxic content", said Meike Escherich, a principal research analyst at Gartner.
[June 23, 2008, 11:04]
Study claims mobile base stations are safe
News Mast Sanity, a pressure group which campaigns against the building of cellular base stations, issued a statement on Tuesday criticising the study for ignoring "the long-term effects, such as cancer and genetic damage, as has been highlighted in...
[July 25, 2007, 12:55]
Open source firms claim business model benefits
News SugarCRM chief executive John Roberts agreed that this model seems inefficient, and claimed that open source companies do not need to spend as much on marketing as they already have a large user base who may become customers in the future.
[April 7, 2006, 12:55]
Xbox sales 'sluggish'
News Microsoft has been trying, with little success, to catch up to market leader Sony, whose PlayStation2 installed base is ten times larger than that of the Xbox. In fact, the machine's installed base is now large enough that lucrative software sales...
[December 16, 2002, 13:32]
Microsoft releases free software testing tool
News Microsoft has released previous versions of Spec Explorer for research purposes, but Spec Explorer 2010 is the first to be developed as a product for a wide user base, the company said. The software maker is releasing a free version now in order to...
[October 29, 2009, 14:11]
The Day Ahead: Techs plunging off Copper Mountain
News In a research note last month, Savageaux said persistent concerns about Copper Mountain's CLEC customer base "was overblown". Lucent's woes are well-documented, but there are other holes in Copper Mountain's customer base.
[October 18, 2000, 12:44]
AMD quits the megahertz race
News However, consumers generally base their buying decisions on the number of megahertz. The aim is to convince PC buyers not to base their purchasing decisions on clock speed alone, but to also consider the actual performance of the chip, sources say.
[August 31, 2001, 8:41]
IBM turns up the transistor heat
News Though IBM has been working with silicon-germanium for about a decade, the latest advance allows the company to make transistors -- the building blocks of chips -- that are only 100 atoms to 200 atoms thick at the base.
[June 25, 2001, 10:18]
EU ploughs €18m into 1Gbps mobile broadband
News Whereas 3G download speeds will soon be able to reach around 42Mbps using a variant protocol called High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) Evolved, LTE download speeds can reach 100Mbps through the technology's use of a technique called Multiple-Input...
[August 19, 2009, 16:54]
Putting a lid on CRM costs with self-service
News Today, Remington still uses RightNow's hosted package, with its Revelation self-learning knowledge base and e-mail management system, and sees greater productivity with the same 20-rep customer service team.
[July 16, 2002, 14:52]
BEA sees a turnaround ahead
News The disappointing financial results revived some long-standing questions about BEA's ability to thrive, but analysts say the company's advantages include impressive technology, a large installed base and strong industry partnerships.
[May 20, 2004, 11:10]
WiMax: The saviour of rural broadband?
News The involvement of Intel has helped to further push standards, which has reduced the cost of WiMax kit enormously, Dineen says: "One of the reasons this technology hasn't succeeded so far has been cost --- base stations and related infrastructure...
[April 5, 2004, 16:15]
Egg will break even in Q4
News Egg increased its customer base to 1.33 million by 11 December, up from 1.2 million on 1 October. The net outflow of deposit funds was caused by changes in the demographics of Egg's customer base. Egg now has to make a profit from this customer...
[December 15, 2000, 15:31]
Guide tells 'grey hats' how to avoid legal pitfalls
News UK IT professionals also need to try to avoid legal entanglement, penetration-testing company First Base Technologies told ZDNet UK on Tuesday. Potential pitfalls include transgression of the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) and breaking anti-terrorism...
[November 25, 2008, 14:13]
