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Banks and payment processors need to develop expertise to identify and support virtual world transactions. Banks need to manage virtual risk because it involved real growth and real losses.

● The release of a Windows Update patch that potentially crashes Internet Explorer 6 is a major faux pas for Microsoft.  ● As with all software, IT organizations need to thoroughly test any Microsoft patches prior to allowing them to be installed on users' PCs.  ● Microsoft should have reacted...

Consumers, marketers and social networks will continue to rethink and evolve the notion of electronic connections. Advertising and marketing dollars will continue to move online to take advantage of electronically enabled relationships.

Real-time data, when used in concert with customer performance analysis, can help banks accelerate migrating customers that use paper checks to electronic payment methods. Real-time data will strengthen banks ability to provide international payment offerings as part of a complete...

This announcement suggests Equifax is moving away from providing information solutions and data and into a position of providing Business Process Management (BPM). A move into the BPM sector will cause them to lose focus and become distracted away from their core value of delivering data, advanced analysis...

Software as a service is focusing the industries on consolidating scarce resources that can be further leveraged, decrease in customization of applications, and the emergence of configurable business services that can be changed by workers with little technical experience.

The implmentation of new technologies such as virtualization, social networking, cryptography, web 2.0 tools and services, and authentiation technologies bring new security challenges.  Data leakage is still top of mind with CISO and CIO. 

• By having its operating system pre-installed on Founder Technology Group's PCs, Microsoft should be able to reduce the piracy of its operating system in China. • This will also benefit Founder's users as their operating system software will pass Windows Genuine Advantage test and thus...

Although contactless technology is interesting for commerce applications the real home run is in addressing security problems on the school campus. Education security firms will use contactless card reader technologies to secure the school campus in a seamless and virtually invisible manner....

Microsoft has signed an agreement with Founder Technology Group to have its software pre-installed on PC's distributed for use in China. This move is hoped to combat widespread Chinese product piracy.