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Smile Lets Users Cash In On The Net
News The Co-operative Bank is following Egg and others in launching an online bank, Smile.co.uk. So what does Smile offer? Smile will make use of a new standing order and direct debit transfer scheme, operated by BACS, which simplifies the transfer of...
[October 1, 1999, 17:29]
A Compact Digital Beamforming SMILE Array For Mobile Communications
White Papers A compact Spatial Multiplexing of Local Elements (SMILE) scheme smart antenna array with adaptive beamforming is presented. Low-noise amplifiers are implemented as switching elements to maintain a low system noise figure and allow fast switching.
[February 16, 2006, 23:00]
SMILE Internet Gold Gives Home Subscribers ISP Secure Web Access
White Papers SMILE Internet Gold, one of Israel's largest communication companies, provides web connectivity to thousands of subscribers. The company wanted to secure the online surfing activities of thousands of broadband home subscribers without requiring...
[June 16, 2007, 0:00]
Smile, You're On The Internet
News Smile.co.uk, set up by the Co-operative bank, is a new banking service that operates entirely via the Internet. Smile will officially go live on 28 October. Another online banking service has entered the fray to try and get its hands on the hard...
[September 30, 1999, 15:08]
Copycat Phisher Arrested For Smile Attacks
News Police have arrested a 21-year-old British man suspected of launching a phishing attack, in which he allegedly tried to trick users into revealing their bank account details, on customers of the Smile online bank.
[April 29, 2004, 12:30]
How To Smile At Pirates, And Win
Leader According to experts, chutzpah is a child who murders their parents and then begs for mercy because they're an orphan. That definition needs to be updated. Romanian president Traian Basescu greeted Bill Gates to Bucharest with a speech proclaiming...
[February 5, 2007, 16:06]
Lily Allen Brings A Smile To LG
Blog What happens when the high-end of IT marketing nudges up into the lower echelons of the celebrity circuit? We found out last night at a shindig thrown by LG to promote its latest range of LCD TVs. While nothing to do with ZDNet's enterprise IT...
[May 4, 2007, 10:37]
Smile, You're On Wi-Fi
News One of the first cameras that can shuttle photos and videos using Wi-Fi has made its debut. IQinVision plans to sell the camera, which became available this week, to companies such as security firms that need to put video cameras in places where...
[July 10, 2002, 8:58]
HP ISM Helps Danish Service Provider Deliver Unique ~Multiple Play~ Service Offering For Improved Customer Retention, Reduced OPEX And Better Resource Utilization
White Papers MidtVest Bredbaand wanted to deliver - through its service provider subsidiary, Smile Content - converged 'Multiple play' services over its next-generation network with a high degree of automation to avoid staffing up and to provide superior...
[December 12, 2006, 23:00]
Co-operative Smiles Upon Cyberspace
News The Co-operative Bank Thursday followed Egg and others in the official launch of its online bank, Smile.co.uk. So what does Smile offer? Smile will make use of a new standing order and direct debit transfer scheme, operated by BACS, which...
[October 28, 1999, 12:19]
Lacey's Paper Round
News Just occasionally the papers make you smile and renew your faith in humankind. But the smile didn't stay in place for long as The Guardian report that over half of the UK's top firms spent zero on R&D last year as the UK slips further down the...
[June 29, 1998, 14:26]
First 'smiley' Found
News A Microsoft researcher has rediscovered what is believed to be the first known instance of a "smiley", the combination of characters used to signify a smile in email and bulletin board communications.
[September 13, 2002, 11:31]
Jesse Berst: A Field Guide To Year 2000 Paranoia
News The situation has Tech Director Jon DeKeles grumpier than usual; he figures he'll actually have to smile and be pleasant. But I figure if not knowing puts a smile on Jon's grumpy face and reduces Nicci's goofing off -- why ruin a good thing?
[August 17, 1999, 10:08]
Russia's Cybercrime-fighting Bond Villain
News Sitting behind a large desk at the back of the room is Eugene Kaspersky - a pony-tailed Russian in his early forties with a wry smile. We show them our passports half wondering if they are as amused as we are, but they glare back coldly without...
[January 10, 2005, 16:05]
Improve Your Communication Skills
News It won't kill you to smile. But when you walk into a conference room for a meeting, or when you walk up to an end user's workstation to provide support, for crying out loud, SMILE! In the meantime, be nice on the phone, and smile once in a while.
[January 7, 2003, 12:37]
Euro Banks Spend Billions On IT
Talkback I read way back in the early Longhorn fan-fair hype that banking group Smile were to use video conferencing for their virtual helpdesk. I wonder if this still stands and will others follow suit?
[June 23, 2005, 18:35]
Worm Hijacks Open Source Database
Talkback Sane people with *nix servers can smile knowingly and return to their slumbers. This is Windows only. It should be made clear that this is *not* a MySQL bug, more a reason to sack your BOFH's and that it is 'doze only.
[January 28, 2005, 17:06]
Windows Update Flaw 'left PCs Open' To MSBlast
Talkback It IS tempting to simply put on a smug smile and say "I run Linux".as I do: - but there is an issue here beyond the fact that lots of people in the know are taking that path. The point is that Windows itself is fundamentally flawed because it does...
[August 16, 2003, 14:26]
EDS: The Single Point Of Failure
Talkback Being on the receiving end of one of EDS's "successes" I can only smile as I read this report.
[May 12, 2006, 9:11]
UK Man Arrested In Phishing Probe
News UK Police have arrested a 21-year-old man they suspect of running a phishing scam that targeted customers of online bank Smile. According to Sophos, the man allegedly sent fraudulent emails claiming to be from Smile online bank and hoped that...
[February 7, 2005, 14:10]
