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EC wants TV spectrum for WiMax
News Find out all about Chip and PIN, Itil, wi-fi and more in our Cheat Sheets. UHF spectrum should be allocated to WiMax once Europe's analogue television signals are phased out, the European commissioner for information society and media has proposed. [14 Jun 2007]
Would you credit it? The debit card turns 20
News Cunnington said the recent introduction of chip and PIN payments was another big change for debit card transactions. And 20 years later, around 68 million debit cards are in circulation in the UK. The next stage in the debit card's development is... [01 Jun 2007]
Barclays rings in dot-mobi banking
News Barclays is the first organisation in the UK to roll out chip and PIN devices to more than half a million online banking customers, and it already offers an SMS text-alert payment confirmation system to combat potential fraud. [23 May 2007]
RBS dishes out chip and PIN readers
News The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is dishing out chip and PIN devices to its online banking customers. The chip and PIN card readers will be sent to customers free of charge and people will start receiving the devices this week. [03 May 2007]
Chip and PIN slaps face-to-face fraud
News Incidents of face-to-face credit and debit card fraud have tumbled by 67 per cent since the introduction of the chip and PIN standard 24 months ago. According to Apacs cards and fraud control manager of operations, Martin Lewis, and head of cards... [02 May 2007]
Boots aiming to shave £30m off annual IT costs
News Just over £200m of that new investment went into the in-store IT infrastructure, which includes a new pharmacy system that will link to the NHS' e-prescription service, 15,000 new touchscreen tills to replace the 17-year-old ones in the shops... [25 Apr 2007]
Retailers fear contactless payments
News With contactless card reader tech currently costing around $100 per unit, when this is added to the cost of integrating the devices into chip and PIN systems large retailers have another disincentive to accept contactless. [24 Apr 2007]
Retailer Clinton's to profit from Epos analysis
News Clinton Cards is about to roll out a chip and PIN electronic point of sale (Epos) system costing just under £3m to its store estate. The retailer forecasts the system will reduce costs by £1m across third-party maintenance and support contracts and... [20 Apr 2007]
Barclays doles out 500,000 chip and PIN devices
News Barclays is sending out chip and PIN terminals to more than half a million of its online banking customers. Barnaby Davis, director for electronic banking at Barclays, told silicon.com: "Barclays believes this is the most effective form of two... [18 Apr 2007]
Online fraud up but card fraud down
News An Apacs spokeswoman said this fall is mainly due to the introduction of chip and PIN payment tech in the UK. The spokeswoman said: "It's [chip and PIN] having the effect that it was brought in for. The banking industry is working on the next... [15 Mar 2007]
Chip and PIN on 98 per cent of UK tills
News Chip and PIN has taken hold in UK shops with 98 per cent of all tills hosting the new tech one year on from the official change-over date. More than 185 chip and PIN transactions take place every second, compared with 125 per second a year ago... [15 Feb 2007]
Chip and PIN hack attack demoed
News Two Cambridge researchers have devised a relay attack with a hacked chip and PIN terminal that could enable attackers to bypass bank card security measures. Saar Drimer and Steven Murdoch, members of the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory... [06 Feb 2007]
Chip and PIN takes off with BA
News British Airways has rolled out chip and PIN pads on its entire fleet of 850 planes. BA is the first UK airline to achieve 'end to end' chip and PIN accreditation with the banks - which means every part of the payment process from the point at which... [05 Feb 2007]
Armed guards - a secure chip and PIN alternative?
News A chip and PIN device is going nationwide this week which incorporates a magnifying screen that distorts the machine's keypad to prevent shoulder surfers stealing PIN numbers.silicon.com readers were quick to share how they would build on this... [01 Feb 2007]
Chip and PIN goes undercover
News A chip and PIN device is being introduced nationwide to prevent criminals stealing shoppers' PIN numbers. The device is a magnifying glass that obscures the chip and PIN keypad so it can only be read head-on by the shopper and not at any other angle. [29 Jan 2007]
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