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Leader: Internet 'innocent' of card crimes
Leader Would any self-respecting criminal really invest in the time and technology required to commit advanced cybercrime while there are handbags left unattended in pubs, credit cards left behind bars, bin bags full of bank statements and fools parting... [10 Nov 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Sick Note
Comment That related significantly to his cavalier attitude to reservations about identity cards and such like. This is hardly unreasonable, given the appalling experiences some have suffered at the hands of the credit rating agencies. [14 Oct 2003]
Giving gadget thieves the finger - biometric security moves on
Comment This means that no provider of credit cards, point-of-sale equipment, phones or computers is likely to commit to integrating a certain type of biometric technology in millions of devices until there are assurances that there won't be a general... [09 Jul 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Taking the mobile plunge
Comment Without a phone, the immediate problem was how to cancel the credit cards and such like. My priority should therefore have been to report the stolen phone, rather than the stolen credit cards. While credit card companies limit the losses for which... [08 Jul 2003]
It's been another week of spam, spam, spam...
Comment Financial services, such as offers of loans, mortgages or credit cards makes up 20 per cent of all spam. It's been another week when the problem of spam has dominated the headlines. Unsolicited email has become a plague on our inboxes and the bad... [09 May 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Web Realities
Comment Recent studies show a surge in online sales and the abandonment of security fears regarding the use of credit cards, and a realisation that the internet is one of the safest forms of financial communication. [01 May 2003]
"I'm sorry but the computer's a bit slow today" - call centre angst in the 21st century
Comment As much as we, as consumers, expect downward pressure on prices for services such as insurance and banking, we tend not to like dealing with the call centres that have often allowed falling premiums and zero-fee credit cards. [08 Apr 2003]
ID theft - very 21st century, very serious
Comment With these they acquire new credit cards, open new accounts, and eventually ring up bills which they never pay for. The big debate on entitlement cards isn't just about civil liberties and streamlining services - when push comes to shove they... [26 Feb 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Who goes there?
Comment I have just walked through unchallenged with pens and credit cards. Many years ago I volunteered to accept a chip implant that would replace my passport, credit, medical, loyalty and membership cards, to identify me immediately so I could pass... [24 Oct 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: the US pays for it online and MMS - winner or loser?
Comment Research, news, games, directories, credit help, personal growth, sports and greeting cards made up the rest of the companies that were charging for content, accounting for 41 per cent of the consumer spending. [19 Aug 2002]
The Ovum View: 3G means business... or does it?
Comment It has established a relationship with a device vendor to ensure 3G wireless data cards will be ready for service launch. Lucent has been unafraid to swim against the tide of received wisdom about 3G, and deserves some considerable credit for doing... [05 Jul 2002]
Start-up of the month: Ecommerce without tears - or credit cards
Comment It has already worked in partnership with smartcard maker Gemplus to produce special credit cards with screens that display the CastIron temporary credit card number and it has also spoken to system integration houses and credit card companies... [17 May 2002]
Why paying for content's still so difficult
Comment But when it comes to online consumerism it seems users still prefer to use credit cards. The method has to be inexpensive and simple to use - something many of the current alternatives to credit cards are not. [05 Mar 2002]
Has Egg cracked it?
Comment The company now has over two million users - those with at least savings accounts but sometimes also products such as credit cards, mortgages, loans or equity funds of some hue. Whoever said the bricks-and-mortar companies would have the last laugh? [25 Feb 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: mmO2's first move, Microsoft's bugbear and smartcard strategies
Comment Credit and debit cards will all come with an embedded chip by 2005 because otherwise the merchant becomes liable for any fraud. Eventually, we will end up needing carriers for all of the different smartcards we need - then we will find it more... [11 Feb 2002]
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