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Brochure: WebSphere MQ delivers real value today and tomorrow

whitepaper A customer uses an ATM to make a transfer of money What do these activities have in common? A supplier pulls the latest specifications out of a manufacturer's bill of materials A trader initiates an intricate sequence of moves in a complex...

Tags: infrastructure management

[18 Feb 2008]

Guide to Wireless Personal Area Networks

whitepaper Their low cost and data transfer rates make WPANs ideal for a wide array of retail and industrial applications. WPAN technology provides greater convenience, utility and safety, as well as save money on replacement of damaged cables and units.

Tags: wireless lan, point, cables, wpan

[11 Feb 2008]

Photos: Accenture waves goodbye to the wallet

Photo The custom built contactless payment terminal shown here demonstrates how NFC (near field communication) and RFID technology could soon allow phones to pay for goods and services, act as travel or gig tickets and transfer money between bank accounts.

Tags: nfc, mobile phone, rfid, bank

[31 Jan 2008]

Nortel Network Case Study: United Community Banks, Inc.

whitepaper Customers dial into an 800-number at the company's headquarters location in Blairsville, Georgia, for balance inquiries, to transfer money and to handle other transactions. "The Bank That Service Built" is a motto in action for United Community...

Tags: voice - data integration

[14 Jan 2008]

CIOs vital in mergers and acquisitions

News Trevor Didcock, former CIO of the AA, said his input played a key role in getting value for money for Centrica - AA's owners at the time - and ensuring the smooth transfer to Permira's systems. Without it they said companies' risk poor value-for...

Tags: post office, merger, cio, role

[10 Jan 2008]

Retailers to scan discount vouchers by mobile phone

News The two-dimensional barcode - or QR code - printed on the voucher is verified against a central database and the transaction is logged by the system, with the retailer being reimbursed by a direct money transfer to their bank account at the end of...

Tags: mobile, barcode, voucher, money

[10 Dec 2007]

Hot issue for green IT

Comment The heated water can then be used via high efficiency heat transfer systems to provide warm water to other parts of the organisation. Some of these techniques can not only save money by dealing more effectively with issues such as excess heat but...

Tags: green, energy, cooling, data centre

[14 Nov 2007]

IBM working on spinning magnetic memory

News IBM has linked with Japan's TDK to develop so-called spin torque transfer RAM or STT-RAM. Why does IBM care about memory chips when it makes its money mostly from services and servers? In STT-RAM, an electric current is applied to a magnet to...

Tags: magnetic, ram, memory, ibm

[20 Aug 2007]

GPs to get greater tech choice

News The NPfIT projects supported by the first contacts include the electronic booking system (Choose and Book), the Electronic Prescription Service and the GP2GP electronic patient records transfer system.

Tags: nhs, procurement, connecting for health, npfit

[31 Jul 2007]

Web 2.0 whipping up a developer frenzy

News Alex Charles, founder and product director of SkillsMarket, said in a statement: "Over the last year we have also seen a dramatic transfer in B2B applications to the web. But employees in these companies have seen their share options become hugely...

Tags: atsco, web 2.0, developer

[10 Jul 2007]

Photos: Inside the Entropia Universe

Photo The Entropia virtual currency - called Project Entropia Dollar (PED) - even has a fixed exchange rate with the US dollar, letting participants transfer any accumulated virtual money back into real world funds.

Tags: realistic, business, entropia universe, virtual worlds

[26 Jun 2007]

Nexxar Group Transfers to IBM System z9 Business Class for Cost Savings

whitepaper Founded in 2003, Nexxar Group, Inc.is a money transfer company that also offers bill payment, check cashing and money order services. The challenge was to enable very high availability to support business growth; develop an IT Service Management...

Tags: application servers, service management, enable, business class

[25 Apr 2007]

Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5100 Series Makes Energy-Efficient Datacentre a Reality

whitepaper Using SpamAssassin as the mail filter, Exim as the message transfer agent and Debian GNU/ Linux 3.1 operating system, Host Europe tested the speed with which the servers could perform spam and virus checking on incoming emails.

Tags: processors, processors, core, powered

[25 Apr 2007]

Barclays doles out 500,000 chip and PIN devices

News Barclays' customers who only use online banking to view their accounts and transfer money to established payees will not be sent the chip and PIN devices and can continue using online banking as normal.

[18 Apr 2007]

Southampton's outsourcing costs double to £290m

News Around 600 council employees will transfer across to the private sector with Capita under Tupe outsourcing regulations. Councillor Adrian Vinson, leader of Southampton City Council, said the strategic partnership with Capita will give the city's...

Tags: southampton, bpo, capita

[23 Mar 2007]

ID fraud soaring across the pond

News Gartner said electronic theft of sensitive information is the leading cause of credit/debit card fraud and bank account transfer fraud.silicon.com Financial Services The average amount of money lost to fraud via electronic payments in the US was $3...

Tags: consumer, online fraud, fraud, united states

[07 Mar 2007]

£45m in savings targeted by government SAP deal

News With increased use of shared services in mind the government has also secured an agreement with SAP allowing certain public-sector organisations to transfer licences between government departments. He said in a statement: "It means that we can...

Tags: savings, sap, ogcbuying.solutions, public sector

[02 Mar 2007]

Amnesty liberates donations

News Vodafone also joined forces with Citigroup to offer an international money transfer system earlier this month with the GSM Association leading a similar, separate project. The m-payment system will give the organisation a 15 per cent bigger cut of...

Tags: amnesty international, m-payments, amnesty, mobile

[27 Feb 2007]

Anglo American outsources IT to BT and HP

News Approximately 90 employees from around the world will transfer from Anglo American to BT and HP, although the spokeswoman said the new deal is "not aimed at downsizing" Anglo American's staff in any way.

Tags: gold, infrastructure, alliance, hp

[22 Feb 2007]

Vodafone CEO: Mobile must move it or lose it

News We've been talking about money transfer services for some time now - it's time to stop talking and actually deliver. Speaking today at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin warned operators to move more quickly or find...

Tags: vodafone dsl, mobile advertising, fmc, fixed line

[13 Feb 2007]

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