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Will consumers always want free banking?

Comment The High Court has decided consumer contract law can be used to determine whether bank overdraft charges are fair. For once, the main beneficiary will be the consumer, as market developments already under way speed up.

Tags: oft, free banking

[12 May 2008]

Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic

News She said in a statement: "We are becoming increasingly reliant on our plastic cards at retailers as they offer us convenience, speed and access to services such as cashback facility, which other payments options cannot provide.

Tags: debit cards, cheques, apacs

[12 May 2008]

Dynamic Rule-Ordering Optimization for High-Speed Firewall Filtering

whitepaper Packet filtering plays a critical role in many of the current high speed network technologies such as firewalls and IPSec devices. The optimization of firewall policies is critically important to provide high performance packet filtering...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

On Dynamic Optimization of Packet Matching in High Speed Firewalls

whitepaper Packet matching plays a critical role in the performance of many network devices and a tremendous amount of research has already been invested to come up with better optimized packet filters. However, most of the related works use deterministic...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

IBM System i5 520 With POWER5 Performance in a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mixed Workload Environment

whitepaper IBM recently announced a new family of high-speed IBM System i servers with POWER5 technology. Customers with older hardware are asking if they can expect comparable performance on these new systems with similar CPW ratings.

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

DIADEM Firewall: Web Server Overload Attack Detection and Response

whitepaper This paper outlines the integration an FPGA based high-speed classifier engine integrated into the Linux Netfilter firewall as well as its deployment during a response action against the DDoS attack. High-profile web servers often become the victim...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

Tribunal Supremo Electoral Improves Speed and Reliability of Vote Processing

whitepaper Supreme Electoral Court worked with RedPartner S.A.to implement a high-availability IT infrastructure, assuring speed and reliability in electoral processes and established a robust citizen database with the help of Oracle Database Enterprise...

Tags: high availability

[11 May 2008]

Metro Ethernet Technology on Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch

whitepaper Because of its intrinsic qualities, Ethernet has been the desktop technology of choice since it emerged as the most cost effective delivery option for high-speed connectivity. By offering cost effective bandwidth, Ethernet has made it possible for...

Tags: ethernet

[11 May 2008]

Data Center Solutions: Planning Considerations for Data Center Facilities Systems

whitepaper Data centers are at the core of business activity, and the growing transmission speed and density of active data center equipment is placing ever-increasing demands on the physical layer. The deployment of high-density blade servers and storage...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News Daniel Hennessy, director of technical architecture at Virgin Media, said in a statement: "Our aim for this trial was to ensure we continue to meet the growing capacity needs of the high-speed services we deliver and provide a quality experience...

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change

News Suffolk also has high hopes for further CO2 cuts from near-future chips that can reduce power demands by adjusting their clock speed to match the task. The government is to lead the way in Green IT by launching a national strategy to cut computer...

Tags: climate change, energy, green it

[08 May 2008]

Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity

News The race to become the UK's first 'Fibrecity' has been won by the seaside resort of Bournemouth, better known for ice-cream and old people than high speed internet. Bournemouth Borough Council is no stranger to a high fibre diet - H2O laid sewer...

Tags: h2o, fibre, bournemouth

[08 May 2008]

Chemical Manufacturer Finds Formula for Greater Efficiency With Powerful ERP System

whitepaper EPI) specializes in developing and manufacturing high-quality chemicals used in metal plating and metal finishing. Now, EPI benefits from enhanced system integration, increased speed to market, and improved productivity.

Tags: erp

[06 May 2008]

Canadian Computing Consortium Boosts Performance Fivefold With Sun Technology

whitepaper Run by a consortium of seven Canadian universities and colleges, the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory, or HPCVL, is Canada's premier high-performance computing center. The company wanted to accommodate research needs up to seven years...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

Thought Equity Delivers Film and Video Content Four Times Faster With Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive

whitepaper Thought Equity added a high-capacity, high-throughput Sun StorageTek tape drive to its existing tape library to dramatically improve the storage density, speed and scalability of its digital archiving and on-demand content delivery system.

Tags: removable storage

[06 May 2008]

Photos: Tech ensures a smoother course

Photo The mast is 28.5m high, carrying a sail area of 590square-metres down-wind. On the right are navigation displays, such as wind-speed and angle, boat speed and Lat/Long position. The yachtswoman held the round-the-world solo sailing speed record...

Tags: yacht, ellen mcarthur, bt

[02 May 2008]

O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal

News And as part of the service O2 performs line speed checks to ensure customers do not end up paying for faster speeds than their line is able to achieve. But Fairman said this was "a deliberate strategy" as the operator wanted to come to market with...

Tags: broadband, smes, o2

[01 May 2008]

EU healthcare reaps benefits of broadband

In Denmark, for instance — where high-speed internet is the most widely available in Europe — the report found there is extensive use of email communication between doctors and patients in about 60 percent of practices.

[29 Apr 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News In Denmark, for instance - where high speed internet is the most widely available in Europe - the report found there is extensive use of email communication between doctors and patients in about 60 per cent of practices.

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

Antivirus Software and Disk Defragmentation

whitepaper Want to speed up your antivirus scans? After testing on different system configurations, they found major improvements in scan times�as high as 61 percent. After years of anecdotal data from Diskeeper customers about the reduction in virus...

Tags: spyware, antivirus, scan, antivirus software

[24 Apr 2008]

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