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RSS consumer eyeThe Weekly Round-Up: 21.01.05
Round-Up Gates was posing centrefold style for what we can only assume was some kind of eye-candy journal for young entrepreneurs. One Mac website, which caught the eye of the Round-Up, boasts an exposé of the... [21 Jan 2005]
HP/Amdocs IN/Prepaid Solution for Replacing Nortel Service Builder
White Paper The HP/Amdocs IN/Prepaid billing solution addresses the critical concerns service providers face now, while keeping a focused eye on future developments. As the communications marketplace continues its evolution toward... [10 Jan 2005]
Move Over Barcodes: Consumer-Goods Firms Eye Radio-Frequency ID
White Paper RFIDs promise a number of benefits to manufacturers and retailers. Unlike barcodes, which must align visually with a reader, an RFID tag automatically announces itself to nearby readers, reducing the need for labor to scan a pallet,... [21 Dec 2004]
Replacing Cash With Convenience: The Promise of RFID Payments
White Paper Contactless payments are becoming the newest trend in the payment world as banks eye the opportunity to increase their revenues via a traditionally cash-based market. Although bluetooth and infrared programs are... [21 Dec 2004]
Cisco invests big in Japan
News Japan isn't the only Asian country Cisco has its eye on. Carriers have rolled out new consumer and business services such as nationwide voice over IP and sophisticated game and entertainment applications. [20 Dec 2004]
RFID: Why you may need tinfoil trousers
News While privacy implications are proving one of the barricades for retailers trying to get RFID into shops and into product packaging, some consumers might do well to keep an eye on their pockets as well as their data. [18 Nov 2004]
Philips sees phone and NFC wireless love affair
News Philips and Sony clearly have an eye on NFC as a technology that can, for example, set up links between electronic devices in the home - say a TV set and camcorder. A smarter form of radio frequency ID chips called Near... [22 Oct 2004]
City banks fail security test
News Many companies using IM are also still failing to heed warnings about the use of consumer applications that offer insubstantial audit trails, archiving and security measures - which are soon to be a requirement of... [28 Jul 2004]
Directory enquiries: They're better but they're worse
News Ofcom and Icstis have decided that the fledgling DQ market doesn't need their formal intervention but they will be keeping an eye on public reaction to the service providers for a while yet. Since 192 became several 118... [18 Jun 2004]
Phishing is fastest growing form of consumer theft
News There are great controls for other types of fraud at the banks, and credit card companies are very good at keeping an eye out for improper behavior, but there is no way to directly address phishing or keyboard logging as... [16 Jun 2004]
The Executive Question: Good news for Japan is good news for all - or is it?
Comment European and US suppliers, on the other hand, set out deliberately to incubate business applications for mobile technology, watching with a supercilious eye as Japanese suppliers hustled ring tones and savers - with the... [05 May 2004]
Analysis: Think tanks fill up on broadband
Comment Nico Macdonald casts an eye over what we can take away from them. Most reports are focused on the consumer sphere, though the Adam Smith Institute's 'Broadband Britain - Finding A Way Forward' concerns... [13 Apr 2004]
One in five Brits not learning ID theft lessons
News While keeping an eye on the identity thieves making off with their money appears not to be people's strong point, it seems that they're being similarly careless about stopping scammers getting their hands on our... [19 Mar 2004]
5 years ago: Do people really want free net access?
News And with access, good value, it seems, is in the eye of the beholder. It all means ISPs will soon have greater flexibility over what pricing models they can offer the consumer. Andy Greenman, senior... [17 Mar 2004]
VCs start thinking small with nanotechnology
News But corporations and venture capitalists are beginning to eye the field as a potential source of new products and profits, according to Packard and other executives who spoke at this year's Nano Science and Technology... [10 Mar 2004]
