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Location-based mobile and Web services are increasingly delivering value and gaining adherents as service providers devote greater time and resources to developing them further. For example, Sprint's Xohm wireless broadband unit is working with a group of leading mobile Web application development c...

Six federal banking regulators, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, FDIC and Office of Thrift Supervision, last November issued final rules clarifying what U.S. banks and credit institutions would have to do to comply with Red Flag provisions of the 2003 Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act. The...

A troubling up-tick in the frequency of Internet fraud attempts and the growing use of more sophisticated botnets and crimeware is leading a growing number of organizations to enlist the services of specialized Internet anti-fraud security services. Operating in a digital realm beyond the reach of l...

Good con artists make an art of preying on people's fears, hopes, dreams and good intentions, and there's probably no end to the list of con schemes being perpetrated via the Web. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, and the Web's openness is proving to be a seduction too strong to resist fo...

Good con artists make an art of preying on people's fears, hopes, dreams and good intentions, and there's probably no end to the list of con schemes being perpetrated via the Web. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, and the Web's openness is proving to be a seduction too strong to resist fo...

Good con artists make an art of preying on people's fears, hopes, dreams and good intentions, and there's probably no end to the list of con schemes being perpetrated via the Web. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, and the Web's openness is proving to be a seduction too strong to resist fo...

The Web continues to play a central role in affecting radical, disruptive change in the music industry as musicians latch on to the latest Web 2.0 tools and bypass traditional producers and distributors. High Street music and video chains -- all the rage not that long ago -- seem to be closing outl...

Business travel is a major expense, ranking third on corporate budgets behind personnel and IT. The World Travel & Tourism Council estimates U.S. business travel spending at $179 billion, followed by second-ranked Japan at $64 billion. Besides the increasing financial expense of air travel and i...

Rising transportation costs and concerns about social and environmental responsibility are spurring corporate demand for videoconferencing, collaborative software and virtual telepresence technology. Wider access to broadband Internet is a key enabler. Changes in business and social attitudes toward...

Enterprise application integration services will emerge as the biggest opportunity in the Asia-Pacific IT marketplace, excluding Japan, between now and 2011, according to a forecast by Springboard Research. Defined as "the integration -- typically across varied platforms and applications -- of an en...

Intel and Grameen Trust are joining forces in an effort to bridge the financial and digital divides separating many of the world's most wanting from basic services and economic opportunities. Joined via video link by Grameen Trust founder and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, Intel Chair...

The going is tough and the competition fierce, but opportunities are out there for small and medium-sized businesses looking to build businesses more global in scope than ever before. A lot rides on their choice and use of enterprise-wide applications -- software that supports core business function...

Globalization, adoption of more open, capitalist economies in developing countries, and technological advances have made building a small or medium-sized business as tough as it's ever been. The potential rewards are substantial, however. Thanks to developments in the IT and telecommunications indus...

Globalization, adoption of more open, capitalist economies in developing countries, and technological advances have made building a small or medium-sized business as tough as it's ever been. The potential rewards are substantial, however. Thanks to developments in the IT and telecommunications indus...

Globalization, adoption of more open, capitalist economies in developing countries, and technological advances have made building a small or medium-sized business as tough as it's ever been. The potential rewards are substantial, however. Thanks to developments in the IT and telecommunications indus...

As the number of identity theft victims continues to mount, so has the amount of data and information related to such events -- and the time and resources devoted to better understanding, analyzing and devising measures that can better prevent such occurrences. "The stakes are already quite high whe...

Private, personally identifying information is everywhere, from portable computers and digital devices, to the Internet and private networks. This data can be obtained so easily -- either through technology or more mundane means -- and its theft is so often glamorized on film, that it is starting to...

Software as a Service, service-oriented architecture and Web 2.0 technology are fundamentally changing the way people and organizations work, enabling greater degrees of collaboration and restructuring everything from business and operational processes to the way software is licensed and priced, acc...

Peer-to-peer consumer lending sites are shaking up the world of Internet finance. Be it the Internet or broadband wide-area networks, growing capabilities and increasing standardization are changing the way finance organizations do business, as Part 1 of this series discusses. The Net is also a key ...

Internet banking and stock trading was all the rage during the late 1990s. Now, two emerging areas of e-finance -- peer-to-peer lending and microfinance -- are disrupting the status quo even further and moving their markets into a new stage of development. Facilitators of peer-to-peer borrowing and ...