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7-Elevens CIO: Contactless PaymentIs Here

Contactless payments—whether theyre made using a fob dangling from a keychain at a gas station, an RFID chip embedded in a cell phone or...

Smart-Phone Trojan Poses as Anti-Virus App

Finnish anti-virus vendor F-Secure Corp. has issued a warning for a new strain of the "Skulls" Trojan sneaking into Symbian-based smart phones by posing...

So Much for Industry Maturity

Like a bunch of, pardon the expression, desperate housewives, developers are getting dumped left and right by partners to whom theyve given the best...

Biometric Payment Catching On

Offering quicker transactions and cheaper transaction fees than credit cards, biometric payment systems are beginning to catch on among consumers and retailers, such as...

Wireless Networks: Letting Data Off the Leash

Go ahead, cut the cord—wireless network systems have some new tricks up their sleeves that make deploying and managing them simpler than before. But...

BEA Reaches Out to Wider IT Audience with AquaLogic

Theres been ceaseless debate and conjecture about whether BEA Systems is in danger of sinking into technological irrelevance. There has been talk of BEA...

BEA AquaLogic Rollout Bolsters SOA Strategy

BEA Systems Inc. last week rolled out a slew of products under the aegis of its new Enterprise Liquid Assets vision as the company...

Oracle Gets Zippy with Financial Services

What does Oracles intent to purchase zippy-quick TimesTen Inc., with its real-time, in-memory database technology, mean to you?Plenty, if youre in the financial services...

Sears, CSC Launch Word War

Sears Holdings Corp. and Computer Sciences Corp. are at war over two words: "cause" vs. "convenience."This is no mere dictionary debate. Millions of dollars...

CA Acquires Project Portfolio Provider Niku

Computer Associates International Inc., on the heels of completing its Concord Communications Inc. acquisition, announced its plan to acquire project portfolio management provider Niku...