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Banks have high hopes for the wireless service. Koreans have already set up more than 24 million online bank accounts. Given that more Koreans own cell phones than computers, and the convenience of being able to bank anytime and anyplace, bank execs believe most Net banking clients will eventually sign up for mobile banking. They […]

MSN has delayed by a week the start of its beta for its MSN Messenger 7 instant-messaging client until some time next week. MSN officials had said the company planned to commence the MSN Messenger 7 beta this week in six test markets: the United States, U.K., France, Spain, Korea and the Netherlands. But some […]

Starting this week, major retail chains began selling Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2), the latest version of Microsofts desktop operating system. “Microsoft began shipping retail boxes to retailers last week, so they will start showing up on store shelves worldwide throughout the month,” said a spokesman with Microsofts Windows client division. Among the U.S. […]

So whats a trader with a huge chunk of stock to do? Big institutions — mutual, pension and endowment funds — have come to believe that hedge funds and investment banks are using the information in the orders to make money for themselves. Extraordinarily sophisticated computer programs can exploit the smallest transactions. Exchanges are aware […]

Firms that rely extensively on the use of technology for financial and other kinds of reporting may be dependent on the open-IP network to do business with suppliers, customers and partners. This dependence leads to concern over network security, thanks to vulnerabilities made evident by attacks such as Slammer and SoBig. Sarbanes-Oxley requires reports and […]

IBM will be giving its competitors something to worry about once the company unveils updates and new products in its disk storage suite. Read the rest of this story at internetnews.com.

Aiming to be a one-stop shop for physicians technology needs, WebMD displayed its electronic health records system at the Medical Group Management Association meeting in San Francisco this week. Though planning to push sales in mid-size and larger physician practices, the system should also work for solo-physician practices. The new system Intergy EHR will complement […]

Numerous applications, including some of Microsofts own, have encountered compatibility problems with Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2). But one application in particular wreaked an inordinate amount of havoc until Microsoft created a removal tool, and now a patch, for it. That application—which many industry watchers consider to fall more into the adware/spware category—was Total […]

While Microsofts Live Communications Server (LCS) is first and foremost an enterprise instant-messaging server, Microsoft is expected to position its 2005 version as its entrée into the telephony market. LCS 2005, code-named “Vienna,” went to beta this summer. Microsoft announced that it had delivered to testers the near-final “release candidate” beta in mid-September. Microsoft is […]

Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, there was one Windows client, one Windows server and one Visual Studio. Then Microsofts begun to do a few one-offs: an XP Media Center release. A Visual Studio Team System release. But we aint seen nothing yet. Microsoft is poised to roll a bunch […]

To date, Microsoft Corp. has not made public much information about Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2, other than to say it would provide all the same security goodies as regular SP2, but modified for embedded devices. On Monday, Microsoft lifted the Embedded SP2 curtain. Earlier this year, Microsoft officials had said to expect Embedded […]

NTT Docomo Inc. last week announced a prototype fuel cell mobile phone charger. Jointly developed with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., the prototype fuel cell can power a handset for about two hours of continuous use. Docomo expects to complete development by March 2006. Read the full story at EE Times