e-money in comment and analysis
Leader: Banks may regret Oyster e-money fiasco
Leader But now it seems that everyone involved has been equally lazy in allowing the Oyster e-money scheme to fizzle out. The Oyster card is a great platform for the UK's first e-money deployment. Why is the Oyster card such a success? [09 May 2006]
Analysis: How to catch a cyber criminal? Do it yourself
Comment They find the names and addresses, and they track where the money goes, and they present the evidence to make a case. Private investigation companies have the advantage of working across national boundaries, which can be useful, for instance, when... [24 Apr 2006]
Will Zopa's P2P loans mean the death of the bank manager?
Comment It doesn't take a genius to work out that the difference between the two - say between seven per cent and three per cent - is where they make a lot of money. There is then a 'buyers market' - people looking to borrow money, and those with a lower... [18 Apr 2006]
Will SOCA kick online fraud into touch?
Comment One of the objectives of SOCA is to launch a crackdown on financial crime, such as money laundering and online fraud. Tony Blair has launched the UK's very own FBI to fight back against organised crime. [04 Apr 2006]
Leader: Clock is ticking for e-banking security
Leader By looking at the behaviour of customers who move money and buy things over the internet, the bank believes it can cut the level of fraud. It's embarrassing and inconvenient when you're trying to pay for something in a shop, and the till queries... [27 Mar 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Been let down by an e-tailer?
Comment How much money have I spent with this site, how often have I used this service, how impeccable or otherwise has the service been to date, how necessary is it that I keep using this site, how compelling is the pricing? [08 Mar 2006]
Leader: Playing sheriff of the wild, wild web
Leader If fraud is being committed and only a small amount of money is changing hands, it is unlikely to be traced. Even the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit, which traces huge amounts of laundered money around the world, said at last year's e-Crime Forum that... [02 Feb 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.01.06
Round-Up Shortly after placing their orders, customers received a confirmation email which made it clear they were benefiting from a £420 discount and they then, apparently, saw the money taken from their cards and bank accounts by Apple. [06 Jan 2006]
Leader: Bungling Apple must explain itself
Leader Either way - and our money is still on it being a pricing blunder - it's a mistake and one which undermines the credibility of online shopping when handled badly. "This week we have seen yet another pricing blunder on the web.so began a silicon.com... [05 Jan 2006]
Leader: Cheerleaders for e-government needed fast
Leader But putting bureaucratic box ticking aside, it seems that for all the money being spent on e-government, relatively few people understand what it is, or whether it's even there. Otherwise it would seem they've simply wasted taxpayers' money meeting... [01 Dec 2005]
Leader: Madness of the government's 'e-bobby' plans
Leader Instead of wasting £19bn of taxpayers' money on a flawed national ID card system in the vague and forlorn hope it might prove a deterrent to terrorists and fraudsters, wouldn't it surely be better to put some of that money into frontline policing... [29 Sep 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Is CRM still dead?
Comment A few years ago, I wrote an article saying the CRM application should die before being born - that CRM should be a corporate ethos and that a decision to throw money at a monolithic application in the hope of 'doing' CRM was a guaranteed loser. [23 Sep 2005]
The McCue Interview: Preston City Council IT chief Peter Ryder
Comment A stint in Tesco's IT department as a student earning beer money pushed Ryder towards a career in IT and, after his A-levels, he joined the London Borough of Enfield as a computer trainee - though he laughs at how much things have changed since... [25 Aug 2005]
Security education: Too little too late
Comment The problem," said one highly placed civil servant during a meeting at the first eCrime Congress in London, "is that the Treasury won't give us any money and we're unlikely to get any budget until April of next year. [22 Aug 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Don't hold your breath for 3G
Comment Surely we can make lots of money out of ring tones, pics, music and movies - can't we? As for watching TV and movies over the mobile network, will people do it and will the industry make money? Just where was the money supposed to come from? [02 Jun 2005]
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