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Foreign-Exchange Rate Display Gadget (gg): Foreign-Exchange rate is displayed. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Foreign-exchange, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance; Software downloads 2007-10-11
Capitalor Pivot Calculator (zip): A calculator developed for the daytrader active in the stock market or the Foreign Exchange FOREX Market. It calculates pivot points, which could be used by the trader to acknowledge price areas where the rate or quote is likely to reverse direction.; Tags: Foreign-exchange, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Finance; Software downloads 2007-01-05
IP Infrastructure Gives Foreign Exchange Market Leader Room to Grow: With locations in New York, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, Dallas and San Francisco, FXCM needed to provide a growing customer base (78,000 in 80 countries) with 24 x 7 multi-lingual support. Together with networking partner NetVersant Solutions, Nortel provided a comprehensive IP-based telephony and IP Contact Center environment. It included:...; Tags: Foreign-exchange, Telephony, Nortel Networks Corp., Leader, IP, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Network Technology, Networking, Telecommunications; Case studies 2006-11-09
Travelex Overhauls LAN Infrastructure to Support Multi-Media Future: Travelex is the world's largest foreign exchange specialist, with over 700 retail branches and 15,000 business customers internationally. To support ongoing expansion, the company is now undertaking a significant application overhaul. However, the new CTI and converged service applications will have a considerable impact on network performance. Initially Travelex considered...; Tags: Foreign-exchange, LAN, Converged Network, Travelex, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance; Case studies 2006-07-24
A Finance Company Uses a Data Mart Solution to Measure the Business Performance of Its Global Foreign Exchange Business: The customer is a leading finance company with a global presence. The company had started a business intelligence initiative to cater to the management information requirements of their global Commercial Foreign Exchange CFX business. They wanted a system that would help them evaluate critical business performance parameters. The Wipro team...; Tags: Foreign-exchange, Data Mart, Performance, Wipro Technologies, Customer, Finance Company, Finance, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Data Mining, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management; Case studies

Wells Fargo Cashes in on XML Technology for Its Foreign Exchange Marketing and Dealing System With Help From OOP.COM and IBM: International financial services provider, Wells Fargo, has been a symbol of reliable service across the American west since 1852. Wells Fargo had recently developed a 100% pure Java system that allowed its Foreign Exchange FX advisors to conduct the business of foreign exchange at multiple geographic sites across the country....; Tags: Foreign-exchange, Wells Fargo & Co., XML, IBM Corp., Currency & Foreign Exchange, Java, Programming Languages, Finance, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Case studies
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Transforms Foreign Exchange Transactions With IBM Web Services Solution: The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd.'s conventional processes for managing international Letters of Credit were affecting its competitiveness and impacting its exporters' warehouse costs and customer relationships. The bank needed to respond more quickly to exporters who wanted a faster, more efficient way to receive Letters of Credit in order to...; Tags: Bank, Foreign-exchange, Web Service, IBM Corp., Bank Of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Financial Services; Case studies
Net Access Case Study: Citibank: Citibank N.A. Pakistan has a very diversified and complex Intranet, linking their corporate offices in Pakistan to the Citibank network. Net Access has established an Intranet for their Trade Services Group, the group responsible for all Foreign Exchange Transactions within the bank as well as transaction services associated with trade...; Tags: Internet Access, Foreign-exchange, Citigroup Inc., Intranet, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance; Case studies
New Foreign Exchange Tool Improves Decision Making and Reporting Time: The Administration IT Treasury Product Group (EAS-TPG), a part of Microsoft IT, used smart client technology to develop key tools to support internal treasury operations. The group built a tool suite based on smart client technology for analyzing and executing foreign exchange transactions. The new suite is called SAP FX...; Tags: Foreign-exchange, Suite, Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Foreign-Exchange Tool, Productivity, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance; Case studies
Large Asset Management: Financial Fund Accounting System SOA Development: The client, an asset manager, is responsible for facilitating the trading of shares of its Exchange Traded Fund ETF product line. This involves publishing a daily portfolio listing file with the National Securities Clearing Corporation NSCC, establishing a share price along with settlement, and numerous other financial responsibilities. The client...; Tags: Asset, Accounting, Foreign-exchange, Financial, Settlement, Accounting System, Asset Management, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Litigation, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance; Case studies
Travelex Fuels Business Innovation by Embracing Open, Flexible Technology: Since its foundation in 1976, London-headquartered Travelex has become one of the biggest names in the global foreign exchange market, with annual revenues of more than £11 billion ($20 billion) and some 6,000 employees spread across 31 countries. Travelex's ability to innovate-the key to its success-was becoming threatened by an...; Tags: Innovation, Foreign-exchange, IBM Corp., London-headquartered Travelex, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Finance; Case studies
Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7100 Series-Based Server Yields 300% Improvement for Microsoft: The costs of goods often vary, depending on a wide range of factors, including dealers or stores, the foreign exchange rates of different geographies, taxes, and other factors. Microsoft Corporation's World Wide Licensing and Pricing WWLP group needs to understand those variations in order to price their products appropriately. But...; Tags: Foreign-exchange, Dual-core, Microsoft Corp., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Currency & Foreign Exchange, Processors, Servers, Finance, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; Case studies
Marex Financial Ltd Transitions to Operational Independence, Meets Three-Month Deadline: Marex Financial Ltd is an independent brokerage and foreign exchange company offering comprehensive coverage of key global commodities, financial futures, options, and foreign exchange. The challenge was to achieve systems independence and autonomy following a split from a larger financial services group - while still using the legacy software -...; Tags: Foreign-exchange, Oracle Corp., Financial, Independence, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Accounting, Finance; Case studies

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Students: the broadband troubleshooter: Student? Moved out of halls? Ready to move into your new student digs? Heads up. Following on from my series of harrowing entries regarding my broadband trouble, it's about time I sat you down and explained a few things about ISP's, phone lines, telecoms...; Tags: Tenant, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, Internet Service Provider, Tag, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Internet, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Photos: Pushing cars from pump to plug: Advocates of plug-in hybrids touted the vehicles as key to weaning America off of foreign oil at the Plug-In 2008 conference held this week in San Jose, Calif. by CNET News.com; Tags: Car, Photograph, Plug-in, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-07-24
Attack code published for DNS flaw: Attack code published for DNS flawIrresponsible and evil"In an IM exchange, Moore told me his exploit takes about a minute or two to poison a DNS cache but said he is working to improve it in version 2.0."As far as i am concerened he is just an evil person to...; Tags: Domain names, Halvar, exploit, DNS; Discussion threads 2008-07-23
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Attack code published for DNS flaw: The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool....; Tags: Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Do college degrees get you anywhere?: Do college degrees get you anywhere?Just another thought...In the sector of work I'm in, I think IT is losing it's "elite" status as a job. With basic IT skills being aquirable with just a few certifications it is becoming less elite and more like a tradeskill not unlike an...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, Benefits, Development tools, salary, job, IT IS, worker; Discussion threads 2008-07-23