Almost a third of European citizens lack confidence in using the internet for financial transactions. A survey of 27,000 citizen across EU member states, commissioned by the European Commission (EC), reported that internet users are ...
Key HMRC IT implementations have been delayed because of the Cabinet Office’s moratorium on spending, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found. The report called for a better understanding of the costs of benefits of the ...
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A new piece of malicious software targeted at Apple users has been found on a website dedicated to the Dalai Lama. The malware, nicknamed “Dockster,” is a backdoor that allows an attacker to control the victim’s ...
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London's buses will be the first mode of transport to accept contactless bank card payments,starting today. The whole fleet of London buses will accept the payments,meaning that passengers can use an American Express,MasterCard,Maestro or ...
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The checkout process is one of the most important parts of any e-commerce website, because it is where you convert visits into sales. It is also one of the most difficult aspects to get right, especially in the toy industry where ...
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Actionable transaction analytics now more accessible for IT Operations and OEM integration partners VANCOUVER,BC,November 16,2012/24-7PressRelease/--INETCO Systems Ltd.,a leading provider of application performance monitoring ...
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Louisiana's new platform-Helping Individuals Reach Employment(HIRE)-is set to go live by the end of December 2012. Geographic Solutions is helping the State of Louisiana modernize its unemployment benefits system by connecting it to the ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is buying a stake in mining and metals giant Norilsk Nickel to end a long-standing shareholder dispute over the company's corporate management. This follows an agreement ...
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Kazakhstan Today reported that prosecutors are probing former employees of German steel group ThyssenKrupp over alleged fraud connected to suspicious payments in Eastern Europe. According to Interactive Investors, ThyssenKrupp called in ...
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A garlic smuggler who resided in the UK and was sentenced to six years in prison for evading tax has gone on the run. Murugasan Natarajan, 57, who owned the London-based Perfect Imports & Exports company, was found with around 7,000kg ...
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Forget cheap shoes.China is leaping up the technology ladder at a rate that has caught its competitors off guard,not least in renewable energy. The pace of the country's progress was on full display last week at an energy conference in ...
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company has implemented BAE Systems Detica's Detica NetReveal solution for fraud detection in its Property and Casualty (P&C) business. Detica NetReveal is designed to prevent fraud at the point of policy ...
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Four leading executives from US big data and analytics companies tell a similar story of imminent increased big data analytics adoption in the UK and Europe.Senior executives from MapR,Cloudera,ParAccel,and Pentaho traced out the likely ...
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Light - not electric signals - is the future of information transfer, says IBM as it reveals a "major advance" in chip technology. Calling the tech "silicon nanophotonics", IBM reckons it integrates optical components alongside electrical ...
US based insurer Appalachian Underwriters (AUI) has set up an alliance with GlobalOptions to serve as its Special Investigations Unit (SIU) provider. Under the new agreement, GlobalOptions will offer as the SIU provider handling ...
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