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Jim Stickley, CTO of TraceSecurity makes his living sneaking into other peoples' businesses and leaving with their data. Stickley robs banks, but unlike conventional thieves, he is not after what is locked inside the vault. Instead, he steals personally identifiable information such as names, addres...

AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users. Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can ...

AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users. Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can ...

AT&T brought its customers one step closer to the promise of mobile banking Tuesday when it announced partnerships with BancorpSouth and a number of other banks to offer banking capabilities to wireless users. Customers of the participating banks who subscribe to AT&T's wireless service can ...

Over-the-air music downloads just got less expensive, at least for Sprint customers. As part of a number of moves to boost its music download business, Sprint announced it will charge 99 cents for all songs purchased from its Sprint Music Store. The price cut, slated to begin early next month, will ...

Bidding to take a lead in the mobile search and advertising space, Yahoo on Tuesday said it would invite more publishers to take advantage of its mobile platform. The company said it was launching new services aimed at helping publishers get their content onto the phones of consumers and to leverage...

Just how is Web 2.0 affecting retailers? Well, retailers are getting absolutely hammered on price, and it's mainly because of the transparency of the Web. In response to increased competition on price, many are cutting prices even further. While there seems to be a fear among online retailers around...

European Union antitrust regulators have given Microsoft more time to prove it is complying with a requirement to fairly license its server software communications protocols. Microsoft now has until April 23 to respond to charges from the European Commission, which has said that Microsoft has yet to...

The stagnant telecom equipment market received a major boost with Verizon Wireless' award of a three-year, $6 billion contract to its primary network infrastructure provider, Alcatel-Lucent. Under the contract, Alcatel-Lucent will supply a range of equipment, software and services to support Verizon...

Chipmaker Intel announced Monday it would build a $2.5 billion wafer fabrication facility in northeast China, the company's latest and largest investment to date in the booming country. The plant -- which will also be Intel's first fabrication plant, or fab, anywhere in Asia -- will be located in th...

Convergence is again a hot topic. In the past, it described how voice and data traffic would eventually coexist on IP networks. Now it frequently refers to the trend of integrating information security functions into traditional corporate risk management organizations. There are good reasons for doi...

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council launched in September as a joint venture between Visa International, MasterCard Worldwide, Discover Financial Services, JCB and American Express to continuously improve the data security standard. The group couldn't have appeared at a better time....

The wheels are in motion to create an economy free of paper money and coins. The first steps of that quiet revolution have long been in place for years and touch tens of millions of consumers every day. This includes consumers rolling through tollbooths without stopping, their in-car transponders be...

A 1998 law designed to block children from viewing pornography on the Web was overturned this week by a federal court, setting up a possible showdown between free speech advocates and the U.S government. Judge Lowell Reed of the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia sided with the American Civil Liber...

In a widely expected but potentially devastating development, a federal judge Friday issued a permanent injunction barring VoIP firm Vonage from using technology that a jury last week found was first developed and patented by Verizon Communications. Judge Claude Hilton said he issued the injunction ...