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• Smart cards: Coming up trumps

  What's holding back smart cards from widespread use in Australia? Could it be that vendors haven't found the applications consumers really want?

• Liberty: Much more than zero

  Six months after saying the Liberty Alliance had "zero chance of mattering," Steve Ballmer might be eating his words as corporate heavyweights keep queuing up to enlist in the Alliance.

• 2001 predictions hitting home

  Tech Republic's Tim Landgrave, looks back on his predictions for IT activity in 2001 to see if he was on target. Here are his top five predictions and how they played out in 2001.

• In smart cards we trust

  Fear of having their credit-card data stolen keeps many Internet users from making a purchase online. Are smart cards the answer?

• Gateway to a pure solution

  Keeping a firm focus on the bottom line has always been a high priority for Australian financial services provider Pure Commerce. And it's paid off, quite literally, as the company continues to grow despite a tough economic climate.

• Australians embrace point-and-click travel plans

  Australians are warming to the idea of making travel arrangements online. Even companies that are not simply Internet booking agents are moving online, and seeing that part of their business increase exponentially, mirroring trends overseas.

• Powerlan Australia lands global Amex deal

  Aussie integrator and developer Powerlan has proved the functionality of the much maligned ASP business model by landing a 3 year contract with American Express.

• Amex Australia powers high-end booking engine

  American Express, which already has one interactive corporate booking engine in the Australian marketplace, is looking to Asian markets for its next online service which is ready for an October debut.

• Protect your identity as you surf

  The Internet is a dangerous place, full of profiteers who sell your personal data to information brokers and cunning criminals who have nothing better to do than obtain credit cards in your name, go on spending sprees, and ruin your credit rating. So whether you're shopping or chatting online, you'll need to take certain precautions to keep your personal info from falling into the wrong hands. Try these tips.

• Biz Intelligence: Getting to know you

  Advances in business intelligence software are helping retailers get to know their customers - and, more important, sell them more stuff - like never before. Yet those same retailers admit that mining customer data can sometimes result in errors that can frustrate or even bewilder their customers.

• The truth about Internet fraud

  Online credit card scams cost Visa USA at least US$48 million last year. Read on to discover the real story behind the biggest threat to e-commerce and how you can protect your business and yourself.

• Keeping payment private with AmEx

  If you're an American Express cardholder and plan on doing a lot of online shopping this holiday season, you'll definitely want to investigate Private Payments. This new feature will allow you to make online purchases without worrying about credit card fraud.

• AMEX just says 'no' to porn sites

  Don't worry if you've left cyberhome without your American Express card when you head to that adult Web site. Since May 1, American Express has been rolling out a new policy: It will no longer cover transactions from adult Web sites.

• Trade Ya for It

  Bippy Siegal argues that small to midsize businesses around the world are burdened with billions of dollars in extra goods and services with nary a customer to sell them to. Enter bartering, the next big dot-com play. Are you ready to get rid of your chequebook?

• Reader's Digest's gifts.com hits the Web

  Put together a list of the most techno-savvy media companies, and the 77-year-old Reader's Digest Association (RDA) is very unlikely to make the cut.

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