transactions high volume in news
Cheques go up in smoke but plastic is fantastic
News Cheque payments continue to decline in the UK as card transactions increase, according to UK payments association Apacs. Meanwhile cheque payments declined by 7.5 per cent in value and 11 per cent in... [12 May 2008]
Cheques gone by 2018?
News The Faster Payments Initiative [slated for May 2008] should allow the sort of transactions conventionally done through cheques over electronic means in a guaranteed way. TowerGroup analyst for European payments Gareth... [27 Nov 2007]
Retailers fear contactless payments
News Since even these prime candidates for contactless cards - with their high volume, low value transactions - are sceptical QPQ's Thomson predicts the intended launch date will inevitably... [24 Apr 2007]
Spammers cashing in on pump-and-dump stock scams
News Böhme and fellow researcher Thorsten Holz found that spammers almost exclusively trade in penny stocks, and said spammers presumably chose them because "the market impact of individual transactions is particularly... [03 Jul 2006]
Online car tax renewals extended across UK
News More than one million drivers have used the online service to renew their tax discs to date and a spokeswoman for the DVLA said a quarter of eligible vehicle licensing transactions are now being done electronically. [10 Jan 2006]
Sun unseated as Unix leader?
News They're often used for more demanding tasks such as running corporate financial transactions or large databases, and such high-end systems often lead to sales of accompanying storage systems, software... [30 Aug 2005]
Technical glitch crashes new DVLA tax renewal website
News It was based on a business case estimating a take-up rate of 39 per cent and it is estimated that when it is fully available it will handle up to 39 million re-licensing transactions a year over the internet and phone. [22 Feb 2005]
5 years ago: Beenz and Mondex seal smart card deal
News Mondex claims its e-cash is suited to high-volume, low-value transactions while beenz is suited to exploiting loyalty schemes, where users can earn beenz when participating in branded... [23 Dec 2004]
'Shoulder-surfing' chip and PIN fraud fear dismissed
News Over the last year banks and retailers have been replacing customers' existing magnetic strip credit and debit cards with new chipped cards and point of sale terminals that use a four-digit PIN code instead of a signature to validate... [08 Nov 2004]
Official: Work email is being used for work, shocker
News While compliance measures are intended to create audit trails of transactions and guard against accounting irregularities, it is clearly a side-effect that companies are also catching time-wasters and porn-peddlers in... [08 Sep 2004]
Low-end 'Enchilada' spices up Sun server line
News Each can accept a specialised $695 "daughtercard" with chips to accelerate encrypted web page transactions but that doesn't take up an extra expansion slot. For one thing, each has four 1-gigabit-per-second Ethernet... [08 Apr 2003]
UK businesses are failing to work online
News Companies are more focused on security than volume of transactions. If you include email transactions then it's probably about 20 per cent," said Mark Buckley, server solutions marketing... [13 Jun 2002]
Corporate secrecy hampering fight against cybercrime
News Cyber Source's Arnold said the problem of fraud on the internet is 50 times higher than for other credit card transactions. Currently an e-tailer has to absorb the cost of a fraudulent transaction, and in addition is... [13 Nov 2001]
Budget 2001: What the IT industry really, really wants
News David King Lassman, founder of knowledge management company Connextra, claimed the scrapping of VAT on goods purchased online would substantially increase the volume of ecommerce in the UK. In a straw poll conducted by... [02 Mar 2001]
silicon.com e-tail survey: Dot-coms trounce clicks and mortars
News While 90 per cent of all online shopping transactions in December were successfully processed, the degree of efficiency varied, according to the final results of a Christmas e-tail survey conducted exclusively for... [05 Jan 2001]
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