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Macs more likely to be used on your network but you didn't pay for them
Comment But regardless of whether users select them for a real business reason or to showcase as jewellery, they are increasingly a platform IT must deal with to ensure they work with the corporate infrastructure. [21 Sep 2009]
Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News A 28-year-old Miami man who made millions breaking into computer networks and stealing credit card numbers pleaded guilty on Friday and agreed to forfeit more than $2.7m in restitution, as well as a condominium,... [14 Sep 2009]
De Beers ventures into selling diamonds online
News Diamond jewellery giant De Beers has put its toe in the water of transactional online retailing for the first time. All three of these sites now allow customers to buy diamond jewellery... [19 Jun 2007]
Retailers fill their baskets with tech
News And finally, the UK's largest speciality jewellery retailer Signet has implemented a communications system from Triangle. It's been a busy week for the UK's shopping giants - the Retail Solutions show in Birmingham... [07 Jun 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: We need multiple biometrics
Comment Body size and shape, skin colour and tone, facial expressions, clothing, jewellery, mannerisms, gait, behaviour patterns all play a vital part in the complete picture that tells us, yep, that is my wife or husband,... [12 Mar 2007]
Chip and PIN hack attack demoed
News A second laptop -which is linked by a GSM connection (or, potentially, wi-fi) to the first - is carried by an accomplice who is waiting in a jewellery shop across town. Once the restaurant customer has entered their PIN,... [06 Feb 2007]
Online shoppers went bling in 2006
News The strongest growth came in the jewellery and watches category, which saw a 66 per cent increase in the amount of money being spent, followed by videogames, event tickets and videogame consoles, said comScore in a report. [04 Jan 2007]
Wi-fi signals hate it when we...
News One office he worked in had a number of women who wore large amounts of jewellery and who would cause a dip in signal strength as they passed access points, he said. Hanging Christmas decorations in the office has become... [06 Dec 2006]
Mobiles, iPods guarded more dearly than passports
News Yet when it comes to iPods, jewellery and other valuables, 28 per cent said they are locked away and another 44 per cent said they are kept securely. Britons take more care with mobile phone and iPods than they do with... [24 Aug 2006]
Spyware arrest follows internet bank thefts
News An investigation into the theft of ¥216,000 (£1,000) from the bank account of a jewellery shop in Kawasaki, Japan, found that spyware had been installed on one of the company's computers and passwords liberated by stealth. [26 Jan 2006]
Jewellery database helps to slash fraud
Case Study The founder of Bath-based jewellery outlet, Christopher Milton Stevens, has been designing, manufacturing and selling jewellery for more than 25 years. Stevens reckons about £550m of... [28 Jun 2005]
"Ratners" syndrome holding back government IT
News Referring to the famous incident where jewellery chain boss Gerald Ratner labelled his own products "total crap", Watmore said at the Government UK IT summit this week that everyone - often unfairly - from the general... [25 May 2005]
$200,000 eBay scammer jailed for six years
News According to Maine's case against Stergios, the defendant repeatedly wrote counterfeit cheques to people from whom he bought items such as jewellery and electronics on eBay. A federal judge in the US has sentenced a man... [07 Apr 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.10.04
Round-Up Natasha Staley, information analyst at MessageLabs, said the campaigns are largely aimed at "the chav generation" - meaning the fake-Burberry and costume jewellery-wearing 'chav' masses for whom a fake Rolex really would... [29 Oct 2004]
'Rolex' spam taps into bling-bling culture
News Staley believes the unscrupulous marketers behind the products may be trying to cash in on "bling-bling culture" which is fuelling a desire for famous-name jewellery and flashy trinkets and accessories - whether fake or... [25 Oct 2004]
