US Consumers See Lag In Wireless Security
Almost 15 per cent of 2500 North Americans surveyed by Ipsos-Reid for Burntsand, an e-Business systems integrator, have conducted a wireless financial transaction, despite doubts over network security...
724 Solutions Buys TANTAU For USD 375 Mn
Three-year old Internet start-up, 724 Solutions, has bought TANTAU Software for the sum of USD 375 million, as a means of extending its global footprint to Europe. Following the all-stock deal, 724 So...
BOC: Double Digit Growth For Card Market
The growth of payment cards in China has prompted BOC general manager, Zhang Weidong, to expect "double digit growth rates for international credit cards in the next three to five years". In particula...
T-commerce To Give eComm A 'Fillip' In US
By 2005, commerce via digital TV (t-commerce) "will probably make up around 25 per cent of eCommerce spending in Britain and 15 per cent in Europe", according to Forrester Research. With t-commerce ti...
Chase Overtaking Rivals In eBusiness Stakes
One year ago, Chase Manhattan was "a 90-pound weakling in the area of e-business", as Internet manager, Fred Loder, notes, but the bank's operations have since been revamped. By integrating its e-Busi...
MasterCard Uses Trintech's Wallet Solution
From Q2, 2001, MasterCard is to pilot a chip-activated digital wallet solution provided by Trintech, to authenticate its cardholders before their digital, form-filling wallet, is launched. Consumers a...
Latin American Banks Targeted By Hackers
Given that hackers based in Brazil recently attacked a number of online banks and left behind a written criticism of each bank's faulty security systems, public confidence in online finance is at a cr...
Europe To Spend E2.6 Bn Online At FY 2000
Forrester Research predicts European consumers to spend 2.6 billion euros online during this year's holiday season, a total equating to 30 per cent of all online retail in Europe for 2000. Furthermore...
BCG: Carriers Promote Networks As 'Secure'
Although North America is tipped to have approximately one-fifth of all wireless Web users by 2005, or 96 million, the
A recent article in the Credit & Financial Management Review, identifies the key issue facing online B2B payments as 'the acceptance of already proven technologies', not the development of new technol...
With IDC analyst, Jim Williamson, predicting Web retailers to incur aggregate fraud-related losses of USD 200 million this season, out of total revenues of USD 12 billion, these losses could spell the...
While Gartner Group predicts more than 40 per cent of eCommerce transactions outside the US to be conducted via mobile device by 2004, Andersen Consulting remains "bullish but cautiously optimistic" o...
Despite indications from Jupiter Research that "mobile e-commerce will become the most robust source of revenue in the US
eCommerce security was a priority last Friday for the US government's National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), which warned of an increase "in hacker activity specifically targeting US system...
Two banking industry analysts, James R Wells, and Jason Gilbert, of Internet banking provider, Digital Insight, believe online bill availability to be nearing critical mass, thereby drawing customers ...
Although IDC concedes that over 90 per cent of e-marketplaces require clients to conclude deals offline, analyst Aaron
In a surprising move, Oracle's chief for EMEA, Sergio Giacoletto, advised businesses not to rush into the wireless Web, but to wait until the market reaches critical mass. Instead, Giacoletto recommen...
Forty per cent of mid-size US firms with revenues of between USD 5 and USD 500 million, have bought online, and expect their e-procurement to grow by 20 per cent in 2001, according to American Express...
American Express and Compaq are furthering the case for smart cards in the US by making the Compaq Smart Card Keyboard, equipped with a built-in card reader, available to holders of 'Blue' cards. The ...
UK online bank, Egg, is to implement Visa's 3-Domain SET model in a system devised to secure online payments, powered by Earthport technology, at the bank's storefront, Egg Shop. The bank has placed a...
EBPP Satisfies 'Dynamic Settlement' Criteria
IDC: Fraud Will Cost eTailers USD 200 Mn By Year-End 2000
Andersen 'Bullish But Cautiously Optimistic' On Mobile Commerce
Jupiter: Security Lag Slowing mCommerce
Fed Warns Banks, Firms On Cyber Security
Analysts: EBPP 'Nearing Critical Mass' In US
B2B Payment 'Needs To Be Brought Online'
New Mobile Solutions Fuse Voice With Data
IDC: E-Procurement Software Market To Be Worth USD 8.5 Bn By 2003
AmEx, Compaq Offer 'Smart Card Keyboard'
Egg Is First UK Bank To Adopt Visa 3D-SET