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- The What, Who and Why of Contactless Payments
- The mass market introduction of contactless technology is an important event for the payments industry. Contactless payments are already providing benefits to consumers and retailers alike, in terms of higher levels of control and convenience for consumers and higher throughput for retailers. And these benefits are just the tip of...
- Tags: Contactless Payment, Retail Company, Retail
- White papers 2005-10-18
- Anti-phishing best practices for businesses and consumers
- Phishing is a form of Internet scam in which consumers are tricked into divulging sensitive personal information. The techniques usually involve fraudulent E-mail and web sites that appear to be legitimate. Consumers are vulnerable to identity theft and financial losses through fraudulent transactions. Businesses are at risk for large numbers...
- Tags: Best Practice, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2005-11-01
- The Managed Security Services Opportunity
- Security is a sophisticated challenge for businesses and consumers alike. The increasing number of vulnerabilities and threats to communication systems is driving the rapid evolution of security technologies. However, most enterprises and consumers do not have the expertise, funds or rapid response capabilities necessary to deal effectively with these problems....
- Tags: Security
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Consumer-Driven Contracts: A Service Evolution Pattern
- This paper discusses some of the challenges in evolving a community of service providers and consumers. It describes some of the coupling issues that arise when service providers change parts of their contract, particularly document schemas, and two well-understood strategies - adding schema extension points and performing "Just enough" validation...
- Tags: Service Provider, Business Services, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Test Strategies for XPS Consumers
- This paper provides information about XML Paper Specification XPS for the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. It provides guidelines for software quality engineers to implement a testing strategy for XPS consumer implementations. Topics covered include a brief overview of factors impacting the interoperability between XPS producers and consumers, and...
- Tags: Strategy, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, XML, Operating Systems, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- White papers 2006-05-11
- Botnet Threats and Solutions: Phishing
- Off late malicious attacks involving tens of thousands of virus-infected PCs worldwide have targeted major organizations such as Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, and UK online betting firm Blue Square. As a result of phishing via botnets, businesses and consumers are adversely impacted by tremendous financial losses,...
- Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Identity Theft, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Semantic WS-Agreement Partner Selection
- In a dynamic service oriented environment it is desirable for service consumers and providers to offer and obtain guarantees regarding their capabilities and requirements. WS-Agreement defines a language and protocol for establishing agreements between two parties. The agreements are complex and expressive to the extent that the manual matching of...
- Tags: Agreement, WS-Agreement
- White papers 2006-05-23
- What's New in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for IT Administrators, Mobile Users and Consumers?
- This paper presents an overview of what Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 features are and benefits it brings to IT administrators, mobile users and consumers in general. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 aims to reduce cost of management, by introducing a command line tool that leverages the PowerShell, which was previously codenamed...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Mobile, IT Administrator, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Idea, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers
- The Trusted Computing Group Mobile Specification: Securing Mobile Devices on Converged Networks
- Mobile workers and consumers alike have increasingly numerous ways to access these networks - via data-enabled cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers UMPCs and notebook computers. In many cases, these same devices can also access the thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots which dot every major metropolitan area. The near term...
- Tags: Converged Network, Mobile, Network, Ultramobile PC, Smart Phone, Trusted Computing Group, Specification, Mobile Device, Worker, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing
- White papers 2006-09-01
- CEOS THINK CUSTOMER SERVICE IS GREAT
- http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/05/ever_wonder_why.html#postsRose colored glass's? Yes men?I totally agree with this statement though.[i]The good news for companies -- and consumers -- is that some firms are finally starting to understand the value of treating consumers well, Sprague said.The benefits are immediate. Companies that improve their customer service experiences find consumers become...
- Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), DanLM, customer service
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
- Botnet Threats and Solutions
- This paper examines the existence of and interactions within the botnet ecosystem that enables phishing and its ensuing damage. It also provides information on how businesses and consumers can protect themselves against these attacks.
- Tags: Trend Micro Inc., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2006-11-01
- FBI rounds up bot-herders, national security at stake
- During the May 2007 Anti-Phishing Working Group Counter eCrime summit in San Francisco, researcher Joe St. Sauver spoke about the need for a government agency to step up and help in the war against consumer computer compromise. He stated that consumers aren't capable of taking the steps necessary to prevent...
- Tags: Viruses, Virus, Leadership, Internet, Security, Attack mitigation, Computer Crime, Computer Forensics, Cybercrime, Cyberwarfare
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Apple resellers, consumers sue Mac maker
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: reseller, Apple Inc.
- Technical articles 2005-02-22
- Piracy fears threaten Hollywood innovation
- Makes Sense To Me"executives fear consumers could soon have so much control over when and how they consume their products"And why shouldn't the consumer be in control. There are way too many products/ services now a days that are necessities and consumers have no say in their pricing or selection....
- Tags: Esher72, gun
- Discussion threads 2004-12-14
- Is it the end of business as usual or the start of a new way of doing business?
- As 2008 continues to be overshadowed by the fallout from the US subprime market, we see banks tightening lending and consumers tightening their belts. But a market discontinuum is not universally bad news. Celona Technologies' Charles Andrews argues that companies should hold their nerve and resist slashing IT budgets just...
- Tags: Information Technology, Data Migration, Celona Technologies, Charles Andrews
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Digital Broadcast TV - Coming Soon to a Mobile Phone Near You
- The mobile broadcast DTV market is an exciting new area with tremendous growth opportunities for the wireless industry and consumers alike. Broadcast TV on a handset combines two of the greatest consumer products of all time - the TV and the mobile phone - and makes the TV experience mobile....
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Texas Instruments Inc., Digital Broadcast, Advertising & Promotion, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- White papers 2005-02-10
- Comedy: “What if people bought cars like they buy computers?”
- article rootMessage was edited by: The Trivia Geek4 times XIf X equals Lame, then this article is: 4 times Xwrite a better one thengo on, do it, don't just criticiseCars and ComputersGreat article. I really liked the line about "send me a new one." grinA quick readAlthough it was...
- Tags: new car, Obscuredbyclouds74, O/S, feedback, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-02-23
- Principles of a Service-Oriented Architecture
- This paper describes some of the basic concepts and principles of SOA at a high level, including service providers and consumers, service directories, and contracts. A service can represent a component of the business data and logic of an application that supports a particular business function and provides others with...
- Tags: Progress Software Corp., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Business Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Small Business Webcast: Why Pirated Software Will Cost You in the Long Run (Level 100)
- Every year, millions of businesses and consumers are hurt by counterfeit software. Using genuine Microsoft software offers greater capabilities and easy integration with the widest variety of hardware, software, and services. It also allows feeling confident that one will receive the latest product features, updates, and ongoing improvements to keep...
- Tags: Software, Small Business, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management
- Webcasts 2006-03-15
- New rulings affect consumer privacy issues in the enterprise
- By Meera S. Singh, Kathie Hackler, and Ron CowlesStrategic market statementsConsumer privacy concerns will gain momentum now that the Homeland Security Act has become law.New legislation/governance will be introduced to focus on protecting consumer information.CPNI, a mechanism designed to protect telecommunications competitors, will continually be drawn into the debate between...
- Tags: Homeland security, Telephony, Federal government, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, customer proprietary network information
- Technical articles 2003-07-10
