The regular rant heard from mobile operators is how much "over the top" service providers are stealing their revenue. The likes of Skype and WhatsApp operate on their handsets, but allow users to circumvent the core voice, text and data ...
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The European Parliament has rejected the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (Acta), blocking its route to becoming law in European Union member states. The vote is the first time the body has exercised its Lisbon Treaty ...
Tags: European Parliament, ACTA, Lisbon Treaty, IP
Xerox is being sued by systems integrator CedarCrestone over payments related to an Oracle PeopleSoft upgrade at insurer CIGNA. CedarCrestone is looking to recover about $1.8 million it says Xerox still owes it, according to the lawsuit, ...
Tags: Xerox, CedarCrestone, payments, Oracle PeopleSoft, Software Project Dustup
A 22-year-old U.K. man was convicted for his involvement in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched by the hacktivist group Anonymous against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and other companies in 2010. Christopher ...
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Parts of New York City received mandatory evacuation notices from the mayor's office as Hurricane Sandy moved toward shore Monday. Along with other businesses in the city's financial district, the New York Stock Exchange voluntarily shut ...
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Swiss bank UBS is planning to take legal action against Nasdaq OMX Group to recoup losses it made related to the Facebook IPO, the company said on Tuesday as it reported its second quarter results. As a result of "the gross mishandling of ...
Tags: UBS, legal action, Nasdaq OMX Group, Facebook IPO
Georgian insurance companies selling individual health policies across the US state will be required to offer "Child-Only" individual health coverage from next year, as part of an order signed by the Commissioner of Insurance of the state ...
Tags: Georgian insurance, Hudgens, legal guardian, Medicare
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a US-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, has completed acquisition of Iowa-based retail insurance broker, Ahrold Fay Rosenberg (AFR). Terms and conditions of the transaction have not ...
Tags: Arthur Gallagher, AFR, Patrick Gallagher, insurance brokerage
Businesses in the EU and the wider world are grossly ill-prepared for a potential collapse of the eurozone, wrongly expecting that they will have plenty of time to prepare for the conversion of one or more countries to a new national ...
Tags: businesses, EU, eurozone, Furlonger, collapse
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched an investigation into the extent to which businesses are using customer data to target consumers with personalised prices. In July, Computing looked into the proposition of companies such as ...
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The BBC is is holding back on developing a bring your own device (BYOD) as it "does not like to be at the bleeding edge" of technology, the organisation's data and reporting improvement manager, Simon Griffiths, has told Computing. ...
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Over the last decade banks have spent billions on high-frequency trading, but have simultaneously neglected their IT legacy systems, leading to a dangerous lack of data transparency. With the Banking Reform Bill in draft, is the time right ...
Tags: IT legacy systems, bank, IT overhaul, accurate data, transparent data
The “free-economy exemplary zone,” being drafted by the Cabinet-level Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD), will consist of the five major centers of innovative integration, new-generation international ...
Tags: exemplary zone, CEPD, innovative integration, international logistics
TM Advertising collaborated with Lucky Twenty One's directing duo Marc & Melanie Chartrand to create an integrated online and print campaign for Best Friends Animal Society. The irresistible campaign stars rescued animals in a show-stopping ...
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Over 1,500 workers in the IT services and healthcare units of supplier Atos could go on strike during the Olympics after being offered a below-inflation pay rise. The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union is balloting workers after ...
Tags: IT services, healthcare, Olympics, IT