Companies are actioning plans to better monetise their dealings with you moving forward.
The company insists that its Passport authentication system can keep customers' financial data safe. But an open-source programmer is pointing out holes in that assertion.
A little-noticed detail of Amazon.com's recent deal with Target may revive an e-commerce feature once given up for dead: the online wallet.
No, this is not a hold-up! Longtime foes in areas such as instant messaging and online access, AOL and Microsoft are facing off in the e-commerce arena--specifically over e-wallets.
As Microsoft did on the PC desktop, AOL battled fiercely in the early days of the Internet--beating stiff competition to reach the top. Now Microsoft is launching an all-out attack in AOL territory, add one of the largest antitrust cases in US history, and you've got a conflict.
Now that the bizarre ruckus over eBay's proposed PayPal monopoly appears totalled, it seems a good time to ponder why eBay chose Australia to risk its reputation on such a massively unpopular scheme.
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.
Although Office and Windows continue to produce vast revenue and profits for Microsoft, some of the company's other well-known consumer titles are generating only a trickle of business.
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.
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.
New anti-spam technology standards are on the way that promise to hit spammers where it hurts the most -- their wallets.
The Nokia 6310i is designed for professionals who want to be connected to anything, anywhere. It has tri-band GSM, at 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz, which is fantastic if you travel to places which use a different GSM technology, and useless if you don't.
The T400s is the lightest 14-inch ThinkPad yet from Lenovo just be ready to pay for the convenience.
While the higher power consumption is a slight concern, the X4 955 proves that AMD is back in the performance game and ready to play hard ball. Bring on the next generation.
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.
With computing power to burn, the PowerEdge 1950 is ideal where high performance is required, such as clustering and Web front-end duties. However, the ramped format does make life more difficult when it comes to database hosting and other backend deployments.
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