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- The future of tech IPOs
- At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, Frank Quattrone, co-founder of Qatalyst, talks about the dismal condition of the current IPO market, why venture capitalist backed companies are not going public right now, and what the future holds.
- Tags: IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Venture Capital, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Tech IPOs
- Videos 2008-07-25
- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- AQL Question Set Builder (exe)
- This easy to use software allows professionals to concentrate on developing the question sets to identify clients' strengths and weaknesses. Questions are grouped and ordered using drag and drop. A question bank stores all questions making revision easy while output in Word or PDF gives you control over distribution and...
- Tags: Sirius, Question, Questions, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Financial Services, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- Homeschooling + marketing = great coffee?
- I really love coffee. Not Folgers or Maxwell House, but the good stuff. My current favorite is Dean's Beans' "Ahab's Revenge" (with "the highest caffeine content of any organic coffee!"), but there are few things that make me happier than a really good cup of coffee. ...
- Tags: Coffee, Scout Hunt, Marketing Research, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Marketing, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Citizens Bank Online is down
- Citizens Bank online banking website is currently unavailable for unstated reasons. That's a drag if you're a customer needing to check information or initiate a transaction. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Bank, Citizens Bank Online Banking Website, Banking, E-business/E-Commerce, Web Site Development, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Average US household credit card debt is $8,565
- Americans carry $2.56 trln in consumer debt, up 22% since 2000 alone, according to the Federal Reserve Board. The average household’s credit card debt is $8,565, up almost 15% from 2000. ?verage US student emerges from college carrying $20,000 in educational debt. Household debt, including mortgages and credit cards, represents...
- Tags: Credit Card, Debt, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Offshore outsourcers turn cautious
- The three primary publicly traded offshore outsourcing companies have turned cautious about the future even as their financial results remain strong. Among the worries--a weak dollar that's hurting revenue and margins, economic uncertainty, murky IT budgets and a concentration of financial services and retail customers. Meanwhile, CIOs...
- Tags: Revenue, Wipro Technologies, Financial Service, Outsourcing Company, Net Income, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Spelling Depot (exe)
- Spelling Depot is the student and educator's one-stop solution for the practice, assessment, and mastery of spelling lists. Lists can be generated within the program or imported from a text document. Each word can include its definition. After taking a spelling test within the program, words missed by the student...
- Tags: Student, Spelling Depot, Tools & Techniques, Games, Financial Services, Management, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-07-17
- Poker Sleuth (exe)
- Poker Sleuth includes three programs: Poker Bar, Poker Crunch, and Poker Notes. Poker Bar sits in the Windows Taskbar and shows recently played hands see screenshot. Clicking on a hand brings up a small window with a nicely formatted hand history and a place to take notes. Poker Crunch is...
- Tags: Equity, Stutzbach Enterprises, Poker Bar, Poker Crunch, Poker Notes, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-07-11
- Attacking phishing at the source
- Good news on the phishing front. Google reports that they are now authenticating all e-mail that purports to come from eBay and PayPal. Using e-mail authentication standards including DomainKeys and Domain Keys identified Mail, and working with PayPal and eBay, Google's Gmail now verifies every e-mail...
- Tags: Bank, E-mail Authentication, PayPal, eBay Inc., E-mail, Phishing, Financial Services, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits
- Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Confidence, VC, Mark Cannice, Venture Capital, IPO, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Boondee Fast Form Filler (exe)
- Fast Form Filler is a software program that saves you time typing routine information into forms, both on the Internet and in programs. It allows you to store a list of phrases, such as your name, address, credit card numbers, e-mail address, or passwords. It then displays a list of...
- Tags: Phrase, Supa Boondee, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Sales
- Software downloads 2008-07-09
- Daily Mail employee data stolen on laptop
- A laptop containing confidential information belonging to employees and suppliers of UK newspaper, the Daily Mail, was stolen. According to the Guardian, the missing data consists of name, address, bank account number and bank sort code belonging to affected staff. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Bank, Data, Laptop Computer, Government, Notebooks, Disaster Recovery, Financial Services, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Data Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Stolen: Google employees' personal data
- Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external...
- Tags: Google Inc., Social Security, Sales Channel, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Sales, Finance, ZDNet Australia, Privacy & data protection
- News items 2008-07-03
- Sim Piggy (exe)
- Sim Piggy is a software equivalent of piggybank budgeting - you allocate money into virtual piggybanks, then you deduct money from piggybanks when you spend. It is designed to make budgeting an interesting experience as a lot of people tend to abandon their budgets after a while. The report printout...
- Tags: Budgeting, Money, MikeeC Software, Sim Piggy, Financial Services
- Software downloads 2008-07-01
- HSBC sites vulnerable to XSS flaws, could aid phishing attacks
- What would the perfect phishing attack from a social engineering perspective? The one that compared to using typosquatted domains impersonating the bank's web application directory structure is in fact using the bank's legitimate domain names as redirectors due to XSS flaws within. It's even more interesting to measure the average...
- Tags: Bank, Vulnerability, XSS, Flaw, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Financial Services, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- UK most popular online banking sites in January 2008
- Banking Service Audience, 000 Visits per user Total Internet: Total Audience 33,254 71.0 Royal Bank of Scotland RBS Group 2,906 5.9 NatWest Bank 2,021 5.9 Royal Bank of Scotland 952 5.5 Lloyds TSB 2,832 6.8 Halifax Bank of...
- Tags: Bank, Royal Bank Of Scotland, Online Banking, Banking, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- The lighter side of Bill Gates
- As you all probably know, considering the 2 year lead-up to today and the considerable press coverage, it's Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. I'd like to take a slightly different spin on covering his career and life, by pointing out the stupid stuff, in the hope it will appeal...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 95, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-27
- Credit-Aid Plus Credit Repair Software (zip)
- Credit Repair Software to fix bad credit and boost your fico score. Order free credit reports and generate letters to remove negative items and negotiate with Creditors. Improve your credit to qualify for the best Loan, Mortgage, Refinance, or Credit Card Rate possible. Includes Organization and Planning Tools, Financial Calculators...
- Tags: Software, Credit, Letter, Credit Doctor Software, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Sales, Finance
- Software downloads 2008-06-27
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