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Faster Payments: All your web banking are belong to us

Real-time transactions gobble up online and phone banking

Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
"You have got to have your seatbelt on" says IT chief - but it's worth it

Tags: salesforce.com, google apps, cloud computing, telegraph media group

Whose IT budget has been hit the hardest?
The winners and losers in tech spending revealed

Tags: public sector, budget growth, financial services, it budgets

Phishers set their sights on corporate accounts
News in brief: Beware the money mules and malware

Tags: fbi, phishing

Microsoft to Office Accounting: Your number's up
News in brief: Redmond calls time on accounting product

Tags: online software, microsoft, office accounting

How to pay for your Amazon purchases with a feisty mango
PayPhrase service goes live

Tags: payphrase, amazon

Parking in the West End goes contactless
Wave and pay on trial with Westminster City Council

Tags: westminster council, parking, wave and pay, contactless payment

How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
Wave's co-creator on why businesses are already eyeing Google's collaboration platform

Tags: sap, web 2.0, google, web apps

Barclays CIO finds a new home with SAP
Don Trotta swaps banking for ERP

Tags: don trotta, barclays cio


2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
But CIOs should ask the CFO for more money now, before all that ageing hardware fails

Tags: it spending, it budgets, equipment failures

Windows 7 will be business standard by next year
XP is yesterday's news

Tags: operating system, corporate desktop, windows 7

Virtualisation: How to get real benefits from your virtual investment
Cutting the connection between the hardware and operating system can bring big benefits - but beware the pitfalls

Tags: gartner, hypervisor, servers, virtualisation

CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
Tech teams told 'do the housekeeping' as servers now cost more to power than to buy

Tags: electricity, carbon footprint, it budgets, server utilisation

Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
Scareware networks are bad for your PC - and your pocket

Tags: phishing, scareware, scam

Tax-refund phishing scams hit an all-time high
HMRC warns users to avoid getting duped by fake cashback offers

Tags: email, tax, hmrc

Windows 7: The five things you need to be thinking about now
Even if you aren't planning to migrate just yet...

Tags: migration issues, windows 7

Telecoms worker? You're in demand. Techie? Not so much
Job market research reveals spike in telecoms vacancies

Tags: telecoms, monster, jobs

Online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
Criminals are "never going to shut up shop", warns banking industry body

Tags: verified by visa, credit cards, banking, fraud

Amazon offers to be man in the middle for mobile payments
Shoppers can now pay with Amazon whoever they buy with

Tags: mobile payments, amazon

iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
Stories of the month - September 2009

Tags: graduates, software, peter cochrane, stories of the month

'New tech? Not for me': CIOs running scared in the recession
Wait and see is the downturn motto for IT chiefs

Tags: purchase, budget, cio, fujitsu

Where to make the biggest bucks working in IT
Which sectors are best for your pay packet?

Tags: finance, retail, public sector, salaries

Former MySQL boss joins Benchmark Capital
From open source database guru to resident entrepreneur

Tags: marten mickos, benchmark capital, mysql

How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
Telltale ways of spotting the danger signs with BPO suppliers

Tags: gartner, bpo, offshoring, outsourcing

Online fraudsters enlist Trojans to run off with your money
And fake balance means you won't even know

Tags: online, banking, trojans, fraud


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