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Yahoo! reports positive profits - Microsoft unconcerned

Steve Ballmer: "It doesn't affect the value of Yahoo!"

MoD fights data losses with encryption
20,000 laptops up their defences

Tags: security, army, mod

FSA warns banks to wise up on security
Finance watchdog found gaps in security strategies

Tags: fsa, disclosure, bank

Motorola suffers a Q1 loss
Restructuring taking its toll?

Tags: profit, motorola

Credit crunch prompts the great cash comeback
BRC accuses banks of 'exploiting' card charges

Tags: cash, brc, credit card, leisure

Google reports sterling quarter
"It's a good time to be a Google bull"

Tags: profits, google

Mobile banking set for boom time
Ringing up billions of transactions

Tags: security, consumer, payment, mobile

UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent
"Fraudsters clearly aren't giving up"

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, phishing

Co-op Financial Services' mail goes digital in £12m deal
Xerox to improve customer service…

Tags: document management, xerox, co-op


Experian embraces open source
A "real benefit" to the company, IT security chief says

Tags: implementation, security, culture, open source

PayPal wages war on phishing
"United we stand, divided we fall," says security chief

Tags: certification, education, isps, paypal

HSBC loses 370,000 customers' details
FSA to investigate?

Tags: hsbc, fsa, data loss

Lloyds TSB beefs up project management
Web-based software paves way to 'agile' company…

Tags: best practice, project management, lloyds tsb

Shell accused of keeping staff in dark over job losses
Union says oil giant is "dumping" staff…

Tags: outsourcing, shell, ito

Sepa fraud risk warning for businesses
Laissez-faire attitude adds to confusion over payments...

Tags: fraud, faster payments, sepa

RIM doubles quarter profits
…but what about the iPhone effect?

Tags: iphone, facebook, blackberry, rim

IT at fault: Millions pay wrong tax amount
Paye system can't cope

Tags: nao, tax, hmrc

Reuters CIO joins Royal Bank of Scotland
David Lister heads back north…

Tags: royal bank of scotland, reuters, david lister

Banking slowdown will bite IT spending
CBI forecasts a cold summer for financial services…

Tags: insurance, banks, it spending

Apacs IT chief steps down
Sue Yoe off to pastures new after 17 years

Tags: id management, it director, apacs

Android laid bare, dressing for success, grown up social networking...
Stories of the month - March 2008

Tags: android, outsourcing, india, linkedin

Gov't pledges to take e-crime seriously
But no cash promises yet…

Tags: e-crime, e-crime crackdown, cyber crime, crime

eSure creates customer 'information hub'
Plug-and-play to manage business 'explosion'

Tags: esure, initiate systems, play, plug

Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere
Creeping into all organised crime

Tags: soca, cyber crime, e-crime, campaign

Banks under attack: Phishing on the rise
US getting battered

Tags: rsa, banks, phishing, banking


Case Studies

Philips' brings travel expenses down to earth
Case study: savings on air travel through benchmarking

Virtual staff speed up bank queues
Case study: How Co-op FS has automated credit checking system

Tags: virtual, credit, bank, automated

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Steve Boyle
Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?
Opinion: Managers must increase diligence to beat fraud

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Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
'On the wide accountancy'...

Steve Boyle
Why you should be outsourcing your data centres
Concentrate on the core business...

Bob McDowall
Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008
Trading platforms likely to draw in their horns for downturn

Steve Boyle
Banking can execute change in real-time
Opinion: Tools and techniques now exist to make it possible

Gareth Lodge
European payment issues will top 2008 agenda
Opinion: Sepa will usher in radical change

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