MasterCard has quietly introduced a new system - MasterCard Online Fraud Monitor - this week. It's an advanced fraud detection and mitigation system designed to enhance security for PIN-based transactions.Developed in...

A clever guy realised that this piece of paper could be delivered on a more wholesale basis, and that the delivery and return could be charged for, so creating the postal service. Then some bloke decided that using paper was a...

Secure Computing Corporation has acquired CipherTrust. This merger firmly establishes Secure Computing as a major player in the enterprise gateway security market.In addition to protecting corporate network infrastructures, the...

McDATA Corporation launched its new Virtual Tape Library (VTL). The VTL is a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution that enables efficient backup leveraging both disk and tape media.It improves backup and restore performance and...

A New York district court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Rescuecom, a computer repair firm, that accused Google of trade mark infringement by selling its brand as a search term.Google's keyword advertising system is called...

Busy past few weeks … first the VML exploit (now patched by Microsoft), then the daxtcle.ocx exploit (not patched yet), and then last night, our friend Roger Thompson reported seeing another exploit, commonly referred to as...

I spotted an unusual item - £19.95 for a search engine entry - on my Nationwide Visa credit card yesterday.This follows on from an attempted charge to my HSBC credit card the other month for £54.00-odd for an Interflora delivery...

Tesco plans to sell a rebadged version Ability Office suite for around £20 (most probably £19.99).Openoffice.org users will rightly point out that OO.org offers a larger set of features and costs nothing.The cheapest version,...

I wonder how many regular visitors to this site caught the Channel 4 documentary the other night on data theft? Intrepid reporter Sue Turton went undercover posing as a business woman wanting to obtain personal details of...

I rolled along to Call Centre Expo at Birmingham's NEC this week to learn about all things call centre-ish.Microsoft was there, extolling the virtues of its CCF call centre software - which costs, as you might imagine, a fair old...

For the first time, parents and schoolteachers will have a system that not only allows them to monitor exactly what their charges are viewing but also proactively alerts them to specified dangers. The Child Protection Gateway -...

HelloSoft and Symbian have begun collaboration to provide VoIP and IMS/VCC software solutions for mobile devices to the Symbian ecosystem.Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system that...

The European Commission and the US have failed to agree a new deal on airline passenger data before a European Court of Justice-imposed deadline of 30th September. Discussions will continue on a potential deal on 6th October.In...

How was it for you?  Did the voices from on high make the big statement – “stop all streaming media – now”?  And what was your response? The problem is that the use of streaming media is only...

The UK Government faces a legal challenge to its brand new employment legislation. A pressure group is challenging the fact that the Act allows employers to permit mandatory retirement ages in contracts.Heyday, an organisation...

Comverse launched its Quad Play Suite, a pre-integrated package combining IPTV middleware with fixed-mobile voice and video communication applications.Quad Play Suite provides a quick and cost-effective way for service providers...