Value. It's a powerful word at the best of times. It can mean cheap and simple or large and complex -- and everything in between -- and all meanings are positive, depending on your point of view. When the word 'value' comes up in focus groups, brand managers are wont to smile wryly and consider their job done. Happy days.
Reports that the next iPhone and iPad could include Near Field Communication (NFC) technology have raised the prospect that many more consumers in the U.S. will soon be able to use their devices to pay for almost anything -- a candy bar, a subway ride, a parking space, or a bag of groceries.
A lot of people are <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/apples-e-wallet-wont-replace-one-im-sitting?t51hb&hpg1=mp">skeptical</a> about using their <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/120101-iphone-quiz.html">iPhone</a> as a wallet, but let's say you're game for it. What should you do to prepare?
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) could soon release new guidelines for banks to use when authenticating users to online banking transactions.
If you thought the <a href="http://www.fcc.gov/">Federal Communications Commission</a>'s <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/122210-fcc-net-neutrality.html">vote to approve</a> limited net neutrality rules were the end of the dispute, think again.
Patients may soon be able to cut health care costs by running blood tests off their <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/010710-verizon-iphone-apple.html">iPhones</a> and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/010411-motorola.html">Droids</a> and having the results automatically forwarded to their doctors, according to new discoveries by researchers at the University of Rhode Island.
Cisco's cloud strategy encompasses pretty much everything under the sun save one - actual cloud services.
Bank of America has joined the growing list of financial and technology companies that have cut off services to WikiLeaks, a move that comes amid speculation that the whistleblower site is preparing to release information about the bank.
Not long after being criticized for not knowing how to make money, Facebook is looking to reel in more than $2 billion in sales in 2010.
The attacks against MasterCard by WikiLeaks supporters that knocked the credit card company's Web site offline today may have caused more problems than previously thought.
A survey of financial services professionals at 70 banks found more than half considered real-time man-in-the-middle attacks from banking Trojans such as ZeuS and Clampi on compromised customer computers to be the greatest threat to online banking today.
BT tech guru and former CIO JP Rangaswami has been appointed as chief scientist at Salesforce.com, a similar role he held at the UK telecoms provider for the last four years.
Dell Wednesday announced its first endpoint encryption product, along with the possibility of factory installation on certain Dell PCs.
Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have joined forces to build a mobile commercial payment network that will let customers use smartphones as credit cards.
Smart card vendor Gemalto introduced a new credit card Wednesday that's capable of generating one-time-passwords (OTP) for electronic banking and payment transactions.