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Cyberoam Secures Societe Generale Viet Finance - The Largest Consumer Credit Arm

Societe Generale Viet Finance SGVF was licensed by the State Bank of Vietnam in 2007 to operate in consumer credit with 100% foreign capital under financial corporations and Societe Generale, France. Mr. Vo Remy, the IT Department Manager at SGVF was not happy with the existing FortiGate 100A. To cover...

Tags: Consumer Credit, SocGen, Elitecore Technologies, Cyberoam, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance

Case studies 2008-10-24

PCI & Strong Access Control: The Shortest Distance to Compliance

Of the many challenges involved in complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS designed to prevent the theft of consumer credit card information, one of the most difficult involves the group of requirements related to what the standard calls Strong Access Control Measures. This paper outlines...

Tags: Passlogix, Compliance, Consumer Credit, Access Control, Single Sign-on, Authentication/Encryption, PCI, Security, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-03

Consumer Credit Provider Boosts Employee Productivity With Desktop Software Upgrade

COFIDIS is a leading provider of consumer credit in Portugal. As part of its strategy to capitalize on advances in technology, the company recently upgraded all of its 430 computers to Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Employees are now able to provide better customer service thanks to...

Tags: Software, Desktop, Desktop Software, Consumer Credit, Microsoft Corp., COFIDIS

Case studies 2008-06-02

Consumer credit up 2.2% in Jan 2006

The Federal Reserve reported that consumer credit grew at an annual rate of 2.2% in January 2006, up from a 1.9% rate of increase in December 2005. It was the best showing since consumer credit grew at a 3.1% pace in September 2005.

Tags: consumer credit

Blog posts 2006-03-08

Erase Bad Credit (Mobile)

It is the purpose of this book is to teach you how to obtain a copy of your Consumer credit report and to remove such things as judgments, late payments, liens, or anything that is untrue or unfair from such reports, thereby improving your consumer credit rating.

Tags: Mobile, Consumer Credit, MHPublishing

Software downloads 2004-01-07

Fiditalia Offers Flexible Information Systems to Support Development of Consumer Credit

Fiditalia S.p.A. has been one of Italy's biggest consumer credit companies for 25 years, with more than one million active clients today. The company wanted to implement a solution consistent with the development of a customer service-oriented architecture and replace the outdated Customer Relationship Management CRM system, with no loss...

Tags: Information System, Oracle Corp., High-performance, Consumer Credit, IVR, Fiditalia S.p.A., Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Leadership, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Management, Software

Case studies

HP Helps Cofidis Provide Better Online Customer Service

Cofidis established the telephone credit system in France in 1982. The company now offers a range of consumer credit products including revolving credit, installment-repayable loans, and credit cards. With shareholders including 3 Suisses International and Cetelem, the business culture of Cofidis is naturally focused on remote selling and consumer credit....

Tags: Customer Service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Consumer Credit

Case studies

Additional Resources

Wii sales take a 43% tumble ... why?

Can no longer competeNintendo has dug itself in a hole this time it probably can't get out of. If they have a hardware update to improve graphics to the level of the 360 or PS3 they will not be able to compete on price which was their main selling...

Tags: Games, Sales strategy, game, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Co. Ltd., sales, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

What's the key to Apple's success?

One word: QUALITYA concept absent from WindowslandTDSo sad to see how Apple destroyed the word "innovation"Apple has never, ever, done anything innovative. By applying the term to blatant rebadging of 5 year old technology, you devalue the meaning of the word and insult those who actually [b]do[/b] innovate. For shame.Oh,...

Tags: Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Apple pitching media companies on tablet?

Hehe, Apple just invented the eReader!![i]While the new Apple device isn't strictly an ebook-reader it appears that Cupertino is setting the stage for a completely new platform for deliverings, books, newspapers and magazines.[/i]Ah, I love how simply stating that this isn't "strictly" an ebook reader, you can credit Apple with...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, E-books, Smart phones, Kinda, Apple Inc., tablet

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Is the cloud a better place for our data?

As consumers, we have two options of storing our digital data: locally or elsewhere in the cloud. IntraLinks' Mushegh Hakhinian says it's like storing your savings in a mattress or a bank. Commentary- Data loss is an all too common a theme in the news these days. The recent...

Tags: Bank, Password, Data Loss, cloud, storage, Mushegh Hakhinian IntraLinks, Special to ZDNet, Mushegh Hakhinian IntraLinks, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-26

Ding Dong, The Vista's DEAD!

This Halloween, let's all celebrate what we're really feeling: The Wicked Vista is DEAD! In the United States, we've got a bunch of frivolous holidays. I've always regarded Halloween as a particularly frivolous holiday, one in which we encourage our...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Halloween, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-24

Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales

Over-reaction of marketThis Apple news will be diluted once Windows7 ships this week. Plus, with the new Zune HD and Windows Mobile 6.5, Apple's days are definitely numbered. Microsoft is poised to take control of all markets once and for all. I would sell AAPL if I were a shareholder...

Tags: Investment, Digital music, Digital media, Financial accounting, Personal finance, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPhone, sales, Apple stock price, Windows Mobile 6.5, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., market capitalization, stock

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Lenovo SL510

Without proceeding any further, I am about to make a guess: you have already decided whether or not you're buying a ThinkPad. The iconic brand, the unending combination of professional respect, solid features, and unabashed blandness, combine to make a product that has surprising appeal across the board, yet remains,...

Tags: Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Processors, IBM ThinkPad, Intel Core 2 Duo, Lenovo Group Ltd., Intel Corp.

Product reviews 2009-10-16

Coin-sized nuclear batteries to revolutionise electronics

.. Nice post for a change. Good job. ntntA beautiful dream...and then reality hitspeople have been so indoctrinated that nuclear material is the most toxic substance on the planet and even saying the word will give you cancer, that this has about as much chance as a snowball in hell...

Tags: Engineering, nuclear-battery, Coin-sized nuclear-battery, alpha, cell, electronics

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Microsoft adds an 'Office Starter' edition to its distribution plans

Consumer PreinstallsAs a preinstall on new consumer computers, it makes a lot more sense than Microsoft Works.Family packs, payment plans, unlimited downloadsI think if MS offered family pack bundles; partial payments over periods of time until the software is fully paid for; and unlimited downloads of the software to registered...

Tags: Groupware, starter edition, ribbon menu, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Starter, distribution plan, Microsoft Outlook

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

FOWA 2009: Microsoft Surface 'proof of concept' actually pointless

Grats on being closed mindedWell done for putting someone down, your price point argument is fair but doesn't negate the number of possible uses of the surface device, which frankly are only limited by imagination, something that seems to be questionable for you.How do you define genuine uses? That sentence...

Tags: Tablets, FOWA 2009, Microsoft Surface, proof of concept, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Apple declares its environmental credentials

Newsweek ArticleNewsweek recently had a list of the top 100 "green" companies. HP was surprisingly #1, with Dell at #2. Microsoft was in the top half as well. Interestingly enough, Apple wasn't anywhere in the top 100 that I saw.PR BS!What Apple fails to show is the mountains of toxic...

Tags: Public relations, Apple Inc., climate change, aluminum

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Newton engineer returns to his Apple roots

Apple today re-hired one of its original Newton developers and it may be one of the best sign yet that an Apple tablet actually exists. The New York Times reports that Michael Tchao joined Apple on Monday as vice president of product marketing after an absence of...

Tags: Apple Inc., Michael Tchao, Tablets, Public Relations, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-09-29

HP Photosmart Premium TouchSmart Web

Although HP and Lexmark both released touch-screen printers at the same time, we have to credit HP for being the first to bring one to the consumer space, with the Photosmart Premium TouchSmart Web. The printer connects directly to the Web through a wired or wireless connection without the need...

Tags: Printers, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, Web, printer, Hewlett-Packard Co., touch screen

Product reviews 2009-09-28