General Motors (GM) has conducted the automobile industry's largest pure Internet transaction, worth $147m. The purchase, conducted over GM's TradeXchange Web site, let the manufacturer and its partner Isuzu Motors to buy a large volume of rubber...
A conference which will bring together global governments to discuss Internet development in the public sector has received the official backing of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. The World Internet Forum, to be held in London this November, will be...
And telecommunications and internet service provider Verizon Communications has battled requests by the music industry to reveal the names of peer-to-peer sites that the RIAA alleges are offering pirated music online.
Assume that you pay some money into your bank account and the bank has to handle that transaction (via an account movement). Arguably, you might be seen as a customer in the context of a particular relationship you have with an organisation but a...
Future bot nets will likely move to peer-to-peer communications, which are harder to intercept and shut down, Holz said. In one case, bot software detected whether the game "Diablo II" was installed on the host PC.
The Payment Systems Task Force, which is chaired by the Office of Fair Trading, has agreed that online, telephone and standing order transaction times will be reduced to a maximum of 24 hours. But at the same time, some banks are looking to delay...