Find out how online wallets can increase consumer security, but also put users at risk of privacy violations.
Singapore is on its way to becoming a cashless nation as electronic money will be made legal tender by 2008.
It's like that old joke: two IT industry analysts, three opinions. We take a look at what the top technology watchers are predicting will change your IT world in the year to come.
If modern wireless mythology is to be believed, it won't be long before everything in the business world will be linked to the Internet and remotely controlled via mobile phone. It's time to come back to reality.
What are m-commerce players doing to overcome the poor usability, trust, security and fulfilment issues that have so far made most online shopping mechanisms a chore, and what's in store for mobile consumers in the future?
Industry analysts are always predicting what will happen in the future. David Braue went back in time five years to see how analysts expected the mobile comms market to evolve, and then compared it to what actually happened.
With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.
Near Field Communication could take RFID out of the logistics chain and into film and music posters, and a UK vendor is now backing the emerging technology with a new reader.
While criminal gangs are more widely associated with threatening denial of service attacks unless they get a kickback of thousands of pounds, it seems some are taking a more small-scale approach to extortion: now average PC users are being targeted.
After five years without a major update to Windows, Microsoft will find plenty of willing buyers for Longhorn next year. Or will it?
An incremental upgrade to the Atom, the Atom Exec is an incredibly feature-rich, well-designed smartphone.
The T400s is the lightest 14-inch ThinkPad yet from Lenovo just be ready to pay for the convenience.
If you've seen last year's ThinkPad X300, there are very few surprises in store here, as the X301 is simply a Centrino 2 update.
ASUS enters the local smartphone arena with a bang -- the P525 quad-band PDA looks to be a great companion for the mobile professional.
The Palm TX is a full-featured handheld perfect for a broad range of users.
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