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Should your tech chief be a jack-of-all-trades?
News Robin Dargue Royal Mail Graham Benson, IT director, M and M Direct had a similar sentiment, pointing out that an awareness of the business needs of a particular business often meant the difference... [27 Oct 2008]
Kids flocking to Blyk to bag free calls and texts
News It said the average cost to advertisers per response rate is 53p - which makes Blyk a more efficient form of advertising than online (£1.50), email (£2.00), direct mail (£12.50) and unprofiled mobile SMS... [25 Apr 2008]
Retailers to scan discount vouchers by mobile phone
News The launch follows a trial of the service in 160 retailers in Kent, involving Newsgroup Newspapers, The Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Telegraph. The two-dimensional barcode - or QR code - printed on the voucher is... [10 Dec 2007]
Yahoo! cracks down on eBay phishers
News is upgrading its Mail system with DomainKeys technology, to block phishing spam and other fraudulent emails that look like they come from eBay and PayPal but don't. Typically, the phishing scams masquerade as emails from... [04 Oct 2007]
Re:Viewing 2006: The year in retail and leisure
News And while chip and PIN has helped reduce card fraud on the high street, criminals have turned their attention to the internet, phone and mail order transactions with a 21 per cent rise in card-not-present fraud since 2005. [18 Dec 2006]
Christmas shoppers take a chance on delays
News Making this happen involves using a combination of Royal Mail and courier services, with guarantees from both partners about delivery times. Clearly the majority of consumers believe the warning from Consumers... [27 Nov 2006]
Banks fight e-fraudsters with two-factor authentication
News And last year internet, phone and mail-order transactions - and card-not-present fraud - rose by 21 per cent to £183.2m. Earlier this month, savings bank ING Direct said it is to step up its online... [05 Sep 2006]
VeriSign warns of DoS evolution
News Under a more common DoS attack, a network of bots, or compromised PCs commandeered by remote attackers, directly inundates a victim's web server, name server or mail server with a multitude of queries. [17 Mar 2006]
ID theft - what happens when you are the victim?
News This meant they could apply for mail redirection to their address and steal the new cards I had just applied for. At the time of the robbery I asked the Post Office to inform me if anyone tries to redirect my... [28 Feb 2006]
Phishers turn to fax scams
News As with other types of unsolicited mail, people are increasingly glossing over these messages as they troll through their inboxes, Cluley said. Phishers, as a result, are likely to be finding their... [12 Aug 2005]
Microsoft lets your IT manager wipe your phone
News In addition the feature pack will allow users to embed the photo in their mail. Other additions include Outlook Mobile data compression, which the software leviathan reckons can reduce bandwidth required to download... [06 Jun 2005]
Spam shame of the UK exposed
News They are all in the junk mail business. Large sections of the list read like a who's who of direct marketing. The UK is still dogged by the persistent problem of spam email and for all the government... [02 Jun 2005]
Gates gets to grips with info overload
News Gates also showed off the Windows Desktop Search that Microsoft introduced earlier this week, demonstrating how it could show all his mail from "Steve" and even which documents were attached to those emails. [20 May 2005]
Spam: You just don't care
News Around one-fifth of users say that spam has affected their use of email in general, with 22 per cent of users now using email less as a direct result of unwanted bulk mail, although the figure is down... [11 Apr 2005]
The FBI isn't emailing you - but virus writers are
News The mail is disguised as correspondence warning people that their internet use has been monitored by the FBI's Internet Fraud Complaint Center and that they have "accessed illegal websites. The emails then... [23 Feb 2005]
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