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E-money credit cards coming to London

News Barclays customers will soon be able to use their cards in the normal chip and PIN manner; as an Oyster by placing the card on the TfL readers; or to make contactless payments at retailers around London.

14 December 2006, 9:21

Ministry of Sound takes tickets mobile

News This activated an interactive voice-response callback which confirmed the ticket request by asking the caller to authenticate their PayPal PIN. The text 'ticket' contained another PIN number which was verified at the nightclub's doors when...

30 November 2006, 9:22

PayPal gets a run for its money?

News To do so, they would log in via their mobile phone, enter the merchant's information, how much the bill is, who is supposed to get the money and a five-digit PIN. Its service, which it said is deployed at two of the five largest US supermarket...

9 February 2006, 8:51

UK phishing scams up by 1,471 per cent

News Quinn said fraudsters are now moving from the retailers to cash machines as chip and PIN has stopped fake cards being used in shops. Quinn added that when the research was done not all cash machines were using the chip and PIN technology, so this...

8 November 2006, 11:27

Cambridge event buzzes with invention

News Users create a pattern by choosing four squares on a grid (pictured) and it is this pattern which is then used to authenticate purchases or passwords, instead of a fixed PIN or password. The grid is filled with random numbers every time a password...

Tags: identify, maps, travel, businesses

10 September 2007, 12:54

Council flats get broadband via power line

News Residents of council flats in the West Midlands town of Solihull are to get free or subsidised broadband through their three-pin power sockets. On Wednesday, the wide area networking company CI-Net announced that it was the technology partner for...

Tags: connectivity, project, broadband, buildings

22 May 2008, 9:55

Apple introduces 1GB Nano

News The new 1GB iPod Nano will be priced at £109 and offer the same features as the 2GB and 4GB iPod Nano models, such as a high-resolution colour screen, a 30-pin dock connector and the ability to display album art while playing music.

8 February 2006, 10:32

Nokia and networks join mobile wallet plan

News Consumers will be able to use a phone as a wallet or as an access card simply by waving it over a wireless reader -- and in some cases punching a personal-identification number, or PIN, into the phone -- similar to how travellers in London and...

26 April 2007, 11:10

Photos: Fujitsu peers into the future

News Users need only a phone, a PIN and an access number, which is provided by the payee -- a shop assistant or an eBay seller, for example. At Fujitsu's North American Technology Forum 2007 on Friday, a developer shows off W-Wallet, a secure payment...

20 March 2007, 10:31

PayPal woes anger online customers

News PayPal is blaming the duplicate withdrawals on a third-party processing error with some PIN-based transactions. Online payments company PayPal is battling to fix a glitch that has been causing duplicate debit card withdrawals and deposits on some...

26 September 2005, 10:02

Windows-based cashpoints at risk of hijack

News Security vendor Network Box illustrated this threat by showing that only the PIN number was encrypted when information was sent from a US cashpoint to networked bank computers. Security experts have hacked cashpoints to show how easy it is to steal...

Tags: machines, cash, face, encrypted

5 March 2008, 9:16

Pick up the tab with a text message

News A PIN number is used to access the customer's account, and a few minutes later he receives a code back from Free Tribes that's valid for 15 minutes. Forgot your credit card? Don't have cash on you? No worries -- just use your mobile phone to pay...

30 November 2006, 9:40

E-tailers getting on top of fraud

News For 2006, merchants are also considering further measures, with 29 per cent of respondents saying the Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode systems -- both of which create single-use passwords/PIN numbers for transactions -- are top of their...

16 December 2005, 9:04

Company trials films on flash

News Users then plug in a memory device from the company, enter a PIN code and buy or rent a movie. PortoMedia is probably the only start-up in the world inspired by the movie Carlito's Way. Company founder Chris Armstrong explains: four years ago, he...

Tags: bandwidth, stores, hard drive, titles

4 March 2008, 9:07

News.blog: Women in IT pose for racy movie calendar

News The Web site also includes bios of the female models, which provide contrasting impressions to their pin-up poses. Some women are launching a rather racy calendar to promote females in IT. The IT Screen Goddesses Calendar 2006-2007, featuring...

11 July 2006, 10:22