card in comment and analysis
Mind the details with Windows 7
Comment Had I read those messages about issues with the graphics card a little more closely, I would have turned back - but alas I didn't. The warnings would have alerted me to the fact that the particular graphics... [23 Oct 2009]
Linus Torvalds
AS Profile The Foundation has held several summits to tackle the legal issues surrounding open source software such as Linux and has even put its name to a credit card in order to spread the word. Linus Torvalds has only missed out... [29 Sep 2009]
CIOs: How to innovate during a recession
Comment These are the core systems: electronic point-of-sale, warehousing, credit card authorisation etc. Here's a plan for nurturing new ideas in any economic climate. Innovation may not be the obvious top priority in a downturn. [04 Aug 2009]
India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?
Comment Urban, educated Indians have a multitude of identification cards provided by the government such as passport, driver's licence, income tax payee card and voter's card. No single ID card... [27 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up According to the Identity and Passport Service's annual accounts, published earlier this week, £12.4m was spent on the Critical Workers Identity Card (CWIC) scheme last year. The scam works by encouraging recipients to... [24 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up Do you really want your toothbrush deciding you've got too many cavities and instructing the fridge not to open, or telling your credit card not to let you pay for that big cream cake? And it won't need some... [03 Jul 2009]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile TfL has recently concluded a trial with O2 and other interested parties around combining the Oyster payment card with mobile phones. Phil Pavitt has been appointed the next CIO of HM Revenue and Customs, one of the... [03 Jun 2009]
Naked CIO: It's time compliance quit crippling SMEs
Comment Then the arrival of chip and PIN switched the burden of accountability for credit card fraud from the banks to the businesses. This included the banks making millions through charging businesses for new credit... [05 May 2009]
Why you should hack your own systems
Comment In fact, such tests have become so widely accepted that one of the newer regulations to affect organisations accepting credit card payments - the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)... [22 Apr 2009]
Tech workers ignite Indian elections
Comment Vandana Prasad, a 29-year-old team leader at the Bangalore-based outsourcing arm of HP, recently got herself a voter ID card. A new, vocal group of voters - outsourcing workers, many from India's tech hub Bangalore - are... [21 Apr 2009]
Inbox: Chip and PIN latest big IDea - and still no readers
Comment And this is mainly because no one outside government can access either the chip on the card or the central database, so these details cannot be used to verify your identity and are a completely useless invasion of privacy. [20 Apr 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The cloud cometh
Comment All our data - banking details, credit card activity, passport driving licence, national insurance, tax, medical records and so on - is stored somewhere but we don't know where. To me this is no different than keeping my... [02 Apr 2009]
One more way to save during the downturn
Comment When combined with 'follow me' printing - whereby documents are printed only once a user authenticates the job at the device using an authentication code, proximity card or smart card - wasteful printing... [01 Apr 2009]
E-tailers: Be choosy overseas
Comment Shopping is much more cash-driven than the West and credit card usage is low (as the Shari'ah principle of Riba forbids the paying or receiving of interest). Last year I wrote a column saying that for some retailers... [24 Mar 2009]
Inbox: Underground safe from mobile chatter
Comment Readers also found time to comment on Tim Berners-Lee slamming internet snoopers, ID card plans and germ-ridden mobiles. The agency charged with driving value for money for government projects has revealed its early... [23 Mar 2009]
Keep updated for stories matching card in comment and analysis via RSS
