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3FA not priority for Asian banks, regulators
News Banks in region still ironing out two-factor authentication rollouts and unlikely to implement additional authentication layer just yet, says analyst.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Security applications/tools, Security Management, Authentication, Banking, 3FA, Security, Biometrics, bank
Govt projects opportunity for NXP in India: Execs
News Semiconductor company expects host of e-government, social projects in country to provide demand boost for its identification products.
Tags: Smart phones, Mobile processors, Processors, E-passport, E-government, India, Cell Phone, financial, bank, smart card
World's outsourcing revenue worth $373B
News Global market will grow 14.4 percent by year-end, led by top performers India, China and the Philippines, which will account for 77.6 percent of total revenue.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Outsourcing, IT Services, India, Philippines, research company, recession, financial, China
MySpace names its first chief financial officer
News The News Corp. social network hires Mark Rosenbaum as CFO less than a week after it announced a new chief technology officer.
Tags: Web 2.0, Facebook, MySpace, Web 2.0, CFO, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, News Corp., layoff, chief technology officer, co-founder
Accounting rule change approved by FASB
News Change allows companies like Apple to recognize revenue much faster.
Tags: Business structures, Apple Inc., TV, Sales, Apple TV, financial, Apple iPhone, agreement, accounting, Business structures
Infosys to hire 100 in Australia
News Indian IT services provider intends to fill out senior and middle-level roles in application development and maintenance.
Tags: Business applications, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Spokesperson, Australia, Sydney, Melbourne, Telstra Corp., financial, Brisbane
If not IT, what is India's next growth engine?
Blogs When you are used to double-digit growth rates (ranging from 13 to 50 percent per annum), a growth forecast of 4 to 7 pe...
Yahoo's Bartz: We 'somehow got boring'
News The company is trying hard to right its ship, and will try to convince analysts that it is a rightful player in future of the Internet.
Tags: Web sites, Yahoo! Inc., Internet technology company, Microsoft Corp., CEO, Web sites, Stock, technology company, financial, senior vice president
FBI's 'Operation Phish Phry' snares nearly 100 people
News U.S. and Egyptian authorities have charged almost 100 people involved in a phishing scam designed to swipe personal information and use the data to defraud banks.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Lawsuits, Phishing, U.S., bank, Egypt, FBI, Financial Company, credit card company, financial
BPO, the unfulfilled promise
Blogs The adoption of larger-scale (i.e. total contract value of US$25 million or above) BPO (business process outsourcing) de...
UK online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News As Internet banking fraud jumps 55 percent in the first half of 2009, banking industry body warns that cybercriminals are "never going to shut up shop".
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, PC security, Phishing, Security, U.K., One Security Inc., bank, Authentication and encryption, MasterCard International
Google co-founder, wife give US$500K to Creative Commons
News Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki donate half a million to copyright reform group, to help build out its science initiative.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Creative Commons, Sergey Brin, co-founder, financial, founder, blog
'Disintegrated' IT didn't help financial crisis
News Financial firms could have better handled economic perils if they integrated technology-business infrastructure for more effective risk monitoring, say experts.
Tags: Financial, Software integration, Risk Management, Risk Management, Financial Crisis, IT Professional, Financial Company, compliance, decision-making, Financial
Microsoft partners with Facebook, Twitter on search
News Microsoft executives Qi Lu and Yusuf Mehdi debut Twitter integration with Bing search results at Web 2.0 Summit. The Facebook partnership will come at a later date.
Tags: Search, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., search engine, Microsoft Corp., partnership, Search Result, financial, Web 2.0
Analyst: Tardiness in SSD game hurt Seagate
News Hard-drive maker's impending closure of manufacturing facility in Singapore, which includes 2,000 layoffs, was in part due to its late adoption of solid-state drives.
Tags: Storage, Memory, Sales/revenue, Western Digital Corp., Manufacturing, Seagate Technology LLC, Singapore, net income, financial, analyst
