data card in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: Micropayments
Cheat Sheet Microsoft's Passport wallet stores credit card data but can also handle other payment systems such as digital cash and electronic cheques. So using either a pre-pay card, a special ISP... [21 Mar 2002]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet Three manufacturers are the front-runners when it comes to getting NFC off the drawing board and into our pockets: Samsung has committed to the tech and has prototypes in the offing; Nokia has produced an NFC shell for one model of... [20 Apr 2006]
Cheat Sheet: QR codes
Cheat Sheet To store and point to a whole URL say - or to contain full contact details on a business card. The reader software will scan the code and crunch the data. However it's not the particular... [28 May 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet Software is used to encrypt all sorts of data to stop unscrupulous sorts getting that information, from credit card details passing over the internet to emails and company databases. As an example, the... [28 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft Passport
Cheat Sheet Last weekend a hole was discovered in MyWallet, the part of Passport that holds, er.your credit card details. There are three schools of thought arguing against it: One is against Microsoft on principal, and doesn't want... [09 Nov 2001]
Cheat Sheet: Contactless payments
Cheat Sheet London Underground's Oyster Card uses Philips' Mifare technology and there are still other variations out there. People in Hong Kong have been using their Octopus card since 1997. The Taiwanese are... [11 Oct 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Phishing
Cheat Sheet Over the years there have been instances of people submitting details to spoofed banks they don't even bank with - simply because it looked official and there was some underlying threat that panicked them, often along the lines of 'Your... [25 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: IPTV
Cheat Sheet But I've got a TV card on my PC now. And with convergence of voice, data and video, it's likely a triple-play offering of television, phone and internet will at least streamline some existing expenditure... [27 Mar 2006]
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