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News Apacs said, as with card fraud, banks still assess online banking fraud on a case by case basis. The online banking section of the latest Banking Code from the British Bankers Association suggests banks may not always be liable when online banking... [16 Jun 2008]
Video app the highway to healthy roads
News According to Paul Davison, senior officer in Hampshire's highway and transport team, the system can be used to assess the state of the council's roadside inventory. Hampshire County Council is trialling an extension to its road management systems... [12 May 2008]
Security breaches down - but at what price?
News He said: "Some 79 per cent of businesses believe they have a clear understanding of the security risks they face but only 48 per cent formally assess those risks. The latest Information Security Breaches Survey, published yesterday to coincide with... [23 Apr 2008]
Lloyds TSB beefs up project management
News It will also help managers to assess the performance of all ongoing projects. Lloyds TSB has made a multimillion-pound investment in a software toolkit to help improve project management across the bank. [04 Apr 2008]
Sepa fraud risk warning for businesses
News A significant majority (86 per cent) said they had yet to even assess the payment fraud risk of Sepa, while 15 per cent of the insurance companies questioned believed there was a negligible risk. As Europe starts to adopt pan-continental payments... [03 Apr 2008]
Killer robots terror warning
News Prof Sharkey said there was an urgent need for the international community to assess the risks of these new weapons before their use became widespread. Forget the cuddly C3P0 and R2D2 - the robots of the future may well share the murderous... [28 Feb 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Semaphore - which checks UK-bound passenger details against databases of banned individuals and passenger name records to assess risk - and Iris - which lets fliers use automated iris scanning gates at several UK airports - have been used as part... [21 Feb 2008]
Boards underestimate tech risk
News Some of the blame lies with the people who assess risk within organisations but who are failing to communicate effectively with the board over the issue. Company executives are failing to address the IT risks facing their organisations despite the... [05 Sep 2007]
Mobile roaming rates for Europe revealed
News Reding added: "In autumn, this will allow us to assess whether there is now more competition in the roaming market and whether consumers actually get a better deal. All mobile operators have told the European Commission their new European roaming... [24 Aug 2007]
IT failing in 'grab a grad' bids
News Other trends show companies are also keen to assess a candidate's soft skills through psychometric testing. IT companies are failing to attract as many graduate applications as other industries. Although the tech industry is still pulling in... [10 Jul 2007]
Can the PSP help boost online content?
News A public consultation was started in January to assess the potential of digital media to deliver public service material. Ofcom has received a positive response to its proposal to create a new organisation to commission online content - otherwise... [14 Jun 2007]
Tech skills shortage: UK must act now
News The emphasis was also put on academic institutions to add a more commercial element to research while businesses are encouraged to assess future skills needs and work with higher education to achieve this. [09 May 2007]
Use your mobile on the Tube from 2009?
News The experiment will start from April 2008 at the earliest and last for six months, TfL said, and will be used to assess commercial and technical aspects of introducing mobile coverage network-wide. London Underground will no longer be free of... [15 Mar 2007]
CIO Jury: CEOs 'don't get' technology
News He said: "A CEO who is comfortable discussing IT-driven change can see the bigger picture and will be able to more objectively assess IT investments. CEOs must do more to understand the challenges and potential of technology if they want to avoid... [08 Mar 2007]
Google slapped for violating fair trade pact
News The KFTC claims Google carried out violations including terminating the agreement between AdSense and the Korean company, failing to ensure payments and not providing advertisers with a right to appeal on the methods used to assess payments. [27 Feb 2007]
