Short takes on this week's news
Card fraud falls in the face of chip and
Pin
The introduction of chip and Pin technology has had a measurable
impact on payment card fraud. Figures from Apacs, the UK payments
association, show that total card fraud fell by 5% between January
and June, with the amount of money stolen by fraudsters totalling
£209.3m, compared with £219.5m in the same period last year.
www.chipandpin.co.uk
Qantas signs seven-year software support
deal
Qantas has signed a seven-year IT maintenance and application
development contract with Satyam Computer Services. The agreement
covers development and maintenance services for more than 150
applications at the airline.
SAP and HP to develop joint SOA
technologies
SAP and Hewlett-Packard are to collaborate on technologies aimed
at improving business IT systems. HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure will
be brought together with SAP’s enterprise service oriented
architecture to create a model that enables hardware and software
to adapt to changing business needs.
Virgin Wines signs deal for hosted CRM
systems
Virgin Wines has signed a deal to have its customer relationship
management systems hosted remotely by TelecityRedbus. They will
join the online retailer’s firewall and anti-virus applications at
the supplier’s Docklands datacentre.
Oyster card scheme wins award for RFID
roll-out
Transport for London’s Oyster card project – the largest
smartcard scheme in Europe – has won an award for being the best
implementation of RFID tags. More than four million people use
Oyster card as their principal means of paying for travel in
London.
Pointsec Pocket PC gains quality mark
The Cabinet Office’s Central Sponsor for Information Assurance
(CSIA) has awarded Pointsec Mobile Technologies a quality mark for
its Pocket PC mobile security system. The CSIA Claims Tested mark
is awarded to products that have gone through a testing and
evaluation process successfully.
www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/csia
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