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Why you must rein in your power users
Comment The Payment Card Industries Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), which any business taking credit or debit card payments should adhere to, recommends "auditing all privileged user activity" as well as avoiding the use of... [25 Nov 2009]
How to pay for your Amazon purchases with a feisty mango
News Amazon has launched a new payments system based around a user's memorable phrase. The PayPhrase service, launched yesterday in the US, will see Amazon users able to combine a set of payment details -... [30 Oct 2009]
Dell and Microsoft Solutions Help ServiceU Deliver Reliable System Performance and Create a Virtualized Environment That Reduces Power Consumption by 50 Percent
White Paper ServiceU Corporation is a Memphis-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider that enables organizations to run successful events by helping manage a wide range of event-related logistics, including facilities management, box office... [02 Oct 2009]
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News It sounds a nonsensical approach with all the compensation payments that would be due. Ingrams warned it could take years to make private systems compatible, pointing out that it took two years longer than expected to... [10 Aug 2009]
PayPal suffers global outage and performance woes
News PayPal says about $2,000 in payments per second flows through the system, meaning that a one-hour outage would cut out about $7.2m in commerce. PayPal suffered a global outage and slow performance on... [04 Aug 2009]
Korea's Rail Operator Accelerates Sales With Cashless Payments on Its Trains
White Paper The operator decided to rollout devices for card payments running Windows Embedded for Point of Service as the operating system to support this initiative. However with cashless payments... [30 Jul 2009]
Mobile payments: Standalone systems blocking the way
News Take-up of mobile payments is being held back by the lack of interoperability between banking systems in Europe, analysts believe. According to a new report by financial services researchers Celent, incompatible systems... [22 Jul 2009]
Labyrinthine IT systems lose MoD almost £300m
News Failings in computer systems used by the Ministry of Defence led to the loss of almost £300m in payments and equipment, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. According to an NAO report into the MoD's 2008-09... [21 Jul 2009]
'Europe needs its own clouds to fight US domination'
News Common European rules and standards must also be set up to encourage the take-up of mobile payments, Reding said. But I also share the frustrations of many internet companies that would like to offer interesting business... [09 Jul 2009]
Barclaycard going for contactless Gold
News Barclaycard Gold and Classic cardholders on the receiving end of a new or replacement card will now be able to make payments of up to £10 by swiping their card against a reader, thanks to contactless payment technology... [16 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo The longest delayed project was the Central Payments System, a payments engine that was supposed to "increase speed and efficiency" but which has seen its completion date pushed back by... [10 Jun 2009]
The next big iPhone thing: Apps that pay
News Apple's plan to allow developers to add in-app payments to applications sold through its iPhone App Store could be the next big step the company takes as it charges ahead in the mobile market. While in-app commerce is... [08 Jun 2009]
VocaLink Ensures Secure High-Volume Transaction Processing With Unified, Flexible Infrastructure
White Paper In addition, and of equal importance, was the industry transition to the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), a European Union initiative geared towards driving down cross-border payment transaction costs. [30 May 2009]
Empresa Electrica Ambato Regional Centro Norte S.A. Integrates Data and Accelerates Bill Processing
White Paper The challenge was to extend visibility of up-to-date information to four agencies and authorized collection centers to facilitate and accelerate bill paying for clients and accelerate the time required to issue bills and collect... [30 May 2009]
Olympics tickets to double as Tube tickets, cash?
News The idea of combining a contactless payment card with ticketing capability is not new: Barclays OnePulse credit card, launched in 2007, has both Oyster card and NFC payments functionality. Miller said such a... [29 May 2009]
