Financial Markets

Millennial Kids Will Change Everything … Once Again

The establishment always views the young as being irresponsible and a threat to the status quo but Generation Y may…

14 years ago

Dow Jones Virus Raises Suspicion Of Insider Malice

A virus released on Dow Jones’ corporate networks may have been a revenge attack by redundant IT staff

14 years ago

Dot-com Bubble Debate Follows LinkedIn IPO

LinkedIn's IPO raised eyebrows but now people wonder if we are heading for new, heady bubble times

14 years ago

Orange Kicks Off The Payment Phone Revolution

Barclaycard, Orange and Samsung have launched a virtual wallet for contactless payments by mobile phone

14 years ago

Enterprise Open Source Software Going Mainstream

Confidence in open source software has led to greater competition with proprietary licensed applications

14 years ago

SAP’s Big Move Into Mobility Targets Competitors

SAP is leveraging its Sybase mobility assets to allow it to compete more heartily against Oracle and Microsoft

14 years ago

Cisco CEO Warns of Changes And Job Cuts

Cisco’s missed targets will bring more changes and layoffs as it tries to get back on track

14 years ago

After Sony, Governments Must Protect Citizens

Sony's lack of attention to security raises an argument for governments to set minimum standards like the PCI-DSS rules, says…

14 years ago

Cloud Is Risky But Safer Than Offshoring, CFOs Say

Ovum reports that many financial officers would rather outsource to the cloud than to offshore services

14 years ago

Oracle Adds BI Apps Access For Apple iPad

The BI release provides 24/7 access to a range of alerts, ad hoc analyses, dashboards, reporting and more

14 years ago

Why Analytics Is Such A Hot Property

IBM dominates analytics but Hummer Winblad says the data dicing space is still ripe for new opportunities

14 years ago

Half A Billion To Adopt Mobile Ticketing By 2015

Mobile ticketing is set to take off, with 500 million people using the technology on public transport within 3 years

14 years ago

More Companies Buying Into BI, Gartner Claims

Business intelligence and analytics tools are increasingly being seen as a way to beat the recession

14 years ago

Google Shares Fall, As Execs Shift And Costs Go Up

Despite increased profits, Wall Street punished Google for higher costs as Larry Page take over

14 years ago

Each PC Holds £432 Of Unused Software

The UK could save £1.7 billion a year by reclaiming unused software licences, says 1E

14 years ago

IBM Customers Analyse Performance At Impact 2011

IBM's slew of product releases at Impact 2011 has already helped some companies improve their services

14 years ago

SOA Is The Way Of The Future, Says IBM

IBM concentrated on SOA at its Impact 2011 conference in Las Vegas

14 years ago

Banks Are Failing To Protect SMBs From Online Fraud

Researcher Ponemon claims that financial institutions do not protect smaller businesses from cyber-fraud

14 years ago

Twitter To Offer Facebook-Style Branded Pages

Twitter is looking into opening up new revenue streams with its own brand pages

14 years ago

Samsung And Visa To Offer Olympic Mobile Payments

Visitors to London for the Olympics will be able to use NFC-equipped mobile phones to buy snacks and drinks

14 years ago

AFCOM: Many Data Centres Vulnerable To Disaster

An AFCOM survey polled 358 managers from around the world and found many ill-prepared for disasters

14 years ago

eWEEK Readers Say Money Is Tight

Many readers have had budget cuts, but some have had a small increase. Next poll: what helps you buy kit?

14 years ago

Public Sector Struggles To Achieve IT Savings

The government's £3.6bn IT spending cuts are leaving public sector financial directors in a tizzy

14 years ago

IBM Touts Middleware Dominance

New benchmark results and advertising push aims to put distance between rival Oracle and its WebSphere suite

14 years ago

Future BlackBerry Devices To Sport NFC Technology

Near Field Communication will be made available in most upcoming BlackBerry smartphones and tablets

14 years ago

Cloud Jobs And Profits Could Shower The UK – Report

But Germany, France and Italy will do better out of the cloud, according to EMC Consulting's report

14 years ago

Bank SMS Passcodes Intercepted By Zeus Variant

The Mitmo Zeus Trojan has infected phones to intercept login SMS credentials and access bank accounts

14 years ago

GSMA Banks On NFC Mobile Payments

Vodafone, Orange, O2 and others have declared they will launch NFC mobile payment services by 2012

14 years ago

Social Media Access May Cause Governance Problems

Gartner claims half of all companies, fearing prosecution, may attempt to block social networking site access

14 years ago

Terrorist Tracking Could Open Europe To US Spying

The US can access EU financial data under an agreement designed to track terrorist funds

14 years ago