Consumer Confidence
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Online payment security gets APAC nod
News Over 60 percent of online shoppers in the Asia-Pacific region are satisfied with current levels of Internet payment security, new study from Visa shows.
Tags: E-commerce, Security, Online Payment, Asia-Pacific, consumer confidence, Internet User, payment, payment processing, electronic payment, Visa Inc.
Convenience to drive security innovation
News The demand for faster and smoother security processes will drive security technology innovations this year, predicts Unisys in a report.
Tags: Biometrics, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Security, Facial Recognition, IT Services, Hong Kong, Innovation, enterprise security, consumer confidence
Telcos 'struggle' to stay competitive
News Carriers worldwide face growing challenge as customer demand changes and new government policies are introduced, finds new Gartner report.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Best strategies, Corporate culture, Wireless Broadband, Carrier, Gartner Inc., research company, investment strategy, recession, financial
Apple denies second round of layoff rumors
News Valleywag has reported twice last week that Apple has laid off small groups of workers, but the company has now denied both reports.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., Apple Macintosh, Sales, consumer confidence, Cupertino, layoff, stock price, Worker
'Green shoots of recovery in the UK? What green shoots?'
News CIOs from a range of sectors and industries believe that reports of green shoots of a U.K. economic recovery poking through are premature.
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Director Of Information Technology, IT Manager, consumer confidence, CIO, Silicon.com, U.K., core competency, Recovery, industry
Recession can't stop Japan's online shoppers
News Rise in number of stay-at-home shoppers in Japan means the online shopping industry outstrips sales at department stores and convenience stores.
Tags: E-commerce, High-speed Internet, Sales, Japan, mail-order, recession, Tokyo, E-commerce
US PC market shows resilience amid continuing decline
News Shipments worldwide were down for the first quarter of 2009, but not as much as initially feared.
Tags: Sales, Personal Computers, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Acer Inc., PC Company, International Data Corp., U.S., Dell Computer Corp., PC
Phishing to hit x'mas shoppers
News Holiday shoppers need to be extra wary of online attacks as they stock up on their Christmas stockings this season, warns security firm.
Tags: Spam and phishing, E-commerce
Mobile banking set for boom time
News The number of people accessing banking services via their mobile phones will increase tenfold over the next four years according to study.
Tags: Mobile, Mobile/Wireless, Mobile commerce
Oracle, Siebel execs see tough 2003
News At an investor's conference in San Francisco, executives of the two business-software companies offer gloomy outlooks for the coming year.
No entry for new games on China Mobile M-Box
Blogs It is now already more than six months since China Mobile began restricting the submissions of new mobile games on their...
Tags: Network infrastructure, Mobile applications
PC market slumps 11% Down Under
News Australia's PC market slumped 11 percent in the last quarter of 2000, compared with Q4 last year, reports the Gartner Group.
Chip sales chug along in February
News Chip sales held steady in February, the Semiconductor Industry Association announced Friday.
Global chip sales hit new high
News Buoyant demand for PCs, mobiles and other devices pushed the semiconductor market past the US$20 billion mark in October.
Tags: Processors, Sales/revenue
Markets drop on expected consumer report
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