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Will consumers always want free banking?
Comment In addition, most banks even make a small interest payment on current accounts. In other words, for customers who use the bank purely for payment transactions, settle credit card payments in a timely fashion, and do not overdraw their accounts... [12 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Because most internet crime cases involve misuse of bank accounts and bank or credit cards, how banks treat losses to the customer's accounts is paramount to maintaining consumer confidence in online trading. [15 Apr 2008]
IT must be called to account over emissions
Comment So far, the IT industry has managed to evade such close scrutiny, despite reports that it accounts for as much carbon emission as aviation. Despite their best intentions, many organisations are overlooking the real environmental impact of IT... [07 Apr 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment Countless more sensitive files must be lost every day on USB drives when someone downloads accounts records to work from home but mislays the flash drive en route or emails it to the wrong address. Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is... [10 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment After all, there are very large incentives: to gain access to bank accounts, access to buildings and anonymous travel. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are... [28 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech history repeats itself
Comment Why is it so hard to move accounts? Written in the bar of a hotel in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia and despatched via a free wi-fi service in the lobby. This morning I was talking to an industry leader in the USA about recruiting young people and he... [25 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Locked in at the bank
Comment Moreover, moving bank accounts is so onerous and difficult most people won't consider it. While the technology to allow us to move bank accounts at will on a regular basis is available today, it isn't being made readily accessible for obvious... [07 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…
Comment My children have already opened accounts and set up as many services as possible to avoid being forced to carry ID cards - we all used to live in a free country now we don't (CCTV surveillance, ID cards, 2003 licensing Act…). [31 Jan 2008]
Locking down financial security
Comment Delivered to users of high-value commercial accounts via targeted phishing mail, watches victims' behaviour when they access their accounts, later mimicking them when making fraudulent transactions and flying under the fraud detectors' radar. [24 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Data security... e-learning a bit of a bore?... ID cards debate... skip vista?
Comment I have several online accounts and other protected services: What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [13 Dec 2007]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment Now they are blending the two strategies so need to extract the meaning from text and images, and to stop us reading the image they are adding noise so it looks like a Captcha test [the textual recognition test that people need to take when... [10 Dec 2007]
Luis von Ahn
AS Profile It is used to prevent bots setting up large accounts to send spam - and these days around 60 million Captchas are solved by humans around the world every day. Described as a "real guy to watch" by one of the panel, Luis Von Ahn is one of the people... [12 Oct 2007]
Leader: How to put out the fires of ID fraud
Leader A few savvy consumers shred every piece of paper that they need to dispose of but the vast majority still don't understand that when putting out bank statements and utility bills with the rubbish they might as well throw out the contents of their... [08 Oct 2007]
Pizza sauce runs in our veins, says Domino's IT chief
Comment Domino's website accounts for 14 per cent of overall sales in the UK, a real achievement, considering the life of the product. The IT director of Domino's Pizza, Jane Kimberlin, is enthusiastic about the brand and its products - an attitude she... [24 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.09.07
Round-Up By all accounts, the UK's network operators were falling over each other to work with Apple - with Jobs playing operators off each other. Technology's very own Mr Rock 'n' Roll Steve Jobs jitterbugged into London town this week to announce the UK... [21 Sep 2007]
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