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CheckFree customers intercepted by hackers

CheckFree, an online billing outfit, was recently hit with an attack that intercepted customer transactions and installed malware. In a letter to customers, CheckFree said customers that paid their bills for an almost 10-hour window may have been intercepted. These customers--assuming they hit certain conditions--may have had...

Tags: Online Bill Payment, Bill Payment, Hacker, CheckFree Corp., Computer, Malicious Software, Productivity, Viruses And Worms, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-10

US online households pay 11 bills a month online

63.1 mln US households are paying their bills online rather than writing paper checks, according to Fiserv. 13% of respondents cited online security as the top reason for not using the online bill payment service, down from 17% in the 2007 survey. Overall, online security ranked third among barriers to...

Tags: Online Bill Payment, Survey, Online Bill Payment Adoption, AM

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Accepting Online Bill Payments: Increasing Foot Traffic and Turning a Profit

Making the sale just doesn't do it anymore for success in the cellular retail business. Constantly, retailers are forced to create new streams of revenue. Fortunately, the modular nature of CellularManager affords cellular retailers with just such an opportunity - accepting cellular bill payments at the point-of-sale using the All-in-One...

Tags: Online Bill Payment, Bill Payment, All-in-One, Retail Company, Data Guard Systems, Retail

White papers 2006-01-11

63% of online Americans use online bill payment

77% of online Americans shopped online in the 12 months ended in May 2005, according to Gartner. An estimated 73% of respondents regularly logged on to banking accounts and 63% paid bills online. Nearly 30% of the online bankers say that online attacks have influenced their online banking activities. Over...

Tags: Americans

Blog posts 2005-07-06

Additional Resources

Intuit and Mint promise "no changes"; but maybe a few would be OK

I would disagree Sam...You are missing the point of Mint then. This is a financial aggregator - nothing more, nothing less - to get a birds-eye view of your financial status. These features you want, would be better served by using the Quicken Online product for a nominal fee or...

Tags: Financial services, Intuit Inc., bank

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Intuit service shows how little patients count

OpportunityIf I wanted to make a lot of money spamming people, I'd just send out phony doctor bills.Nobody has any idea how many bills they are supposed to be getting, or how much they are supposed to be. One more for "lab fees" would probably get paid by a...

Tags: Insurance, Intuit Inc., patient, vet

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Why PayPal lost this customer over credit card fees policy

I have this event coming up and will be be the funds-collector from people scattered across different locations. Initially, I thought of PayPal as the easy way to go. Boy, was I wrong. Today, thanks to a very poor experience with the company's Web...

Tags: Payment, Credit Card, PayPal, eBay Inc., Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Friday madness: $23 quadrillion software glitch

Friday madness: $23 quadrillion software glitchFriday madness: $23 quadrillion software glitchIts an obvious glitch, but like you said always check your bills and statements, especially from Bank of America. I have a credit card through them and they charged me a $25 late fee when I had made the...

Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, Pre-paid, payment, software glitch, software, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Moneydance 2008r4 (Mac)

Moneydance is an easy-to-use personal finance manager. Whether you want to organize your finances, manage your budget, track your portfolio, or just automatically balance your checkbook, Moneydance is the solution for you. Moneydance's simple interface makes tracking your finances a snap, and advanced features include online banking and bill payment,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Moneydance, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Finance

Software downloads 2009-06-22

Microsoft Money Just Wants to Be Free

Microsoft is abandoning its personal finance software, Microsoft Money, after over 16 years of development and marketing. But why abandon perfectly good software when it could be released to the community as an Open Source project? This week, Microsoft announced its...

Tags: Be Free, Microsoft Money, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Personal Finance, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Intuit drops restrictions on Quickbooks app development

Intuit, the makers of the Quickbooks financial software for businesses, is jumping on board the open source app frenzy. The company this week announced Federated Applications, an enhancement to the Intuit Partner Platform that allows any software developer to use the tools of his or her choice to create applications...

Tags: Intuit Inc., Intuit QuickBooks, Small Business, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-04

Can eBay's payment strategy carry it through auction makeover?

EBay has the right idea about putting its marketplace unit - comprised of sites such as eBay and StubHub - into revamp mode, as it told analysts during a meeting yesterday. For the fourth quarter, the unit saw sales slip 16 percent from a year earlier. But sales in the...

Tags: Strategy, Payment, eBay Inc., Auction, Bill, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Newspapers face first mover disadvanatge in online pay-for-news

Newspapers face first mover disadvanatge in online pay-for-newsDang tootin right!I WILL NOT read the NY Times web site because I have to "log in" to do it. Imagine if I HAD TO PAY to "log in"? Now if paying got rid of the ad clutter ENTIRELY ....Nah! ...

Tags: Strategy, advertisement, first mover, mover

Discussion threads 2009-02-16

Interview: Wired's Chris Anderson on the 'free' business model

As editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson is considered one of the most knowledgeable and insightful voices at the center of the new economy. In his articles and New York Times bestselling book The Long Tail, he has identified important new trends in the economy and described new business models...

Tags: Software, Advertisement, Wired Inc., Shelf Space, Business Model, Computer Associates International Inc., Economy, Netbook, Anderson, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Will EDoS be the next DDoS?

Will EDoS be the next DDoS?All DDoS is 'EDoS' - this isn't a new concept.Most DDoS for the better part of the last decade has been directly economically motivated - i.e., DDoS protection rackets, in which the attackers DDoS a victim, then send a demand for payment to make the...

Tags: SECURITY, distributed denial of service, EDoS

Discussion threads 2009-01-25

Metered computing: Another great argument for open source in 2009

Metered computing, as outlined by Microsoft in a patent application, isn't the worst idea I've heard -- but it ranks up there with other spectacular failures like the original DivX, AOL dial-up, and the 2008 Detroit Lions. The idea, as outlined in this article by David Meyer,...

Tags: Patent Application, PC, Open Source, Microsoft Corp., Computing, Computer, Odds, Desktops, Hardware, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-12-31

Ou: Google hypocritical on neutrality

Ou: Google hypocritical on neutralityLet's go back and look at the argument of Net Neutralityhttp://www.jedreport.com/2008/12/lessigs-defense.htmlThe whole argument that Net Neutrality proponents made is that they don't want premium content delivery using fast lanes. Caching is warp speed lane prioritization. Their whole argument is that it prevents the little...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Content Caching, Net Neutrality, Internet Service Provider, QoS, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-16

CheckFree customers intercepted by hackers

CheckFree customers intercepted by hackersIntercepted?That is all nice and well that they are offering free virus software, but unless I am missing something from the title, their tranaction was intercepted.I am not seeing anything listing that their banking information may / was compromised.Guess those customers will find out when their...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, CheckFree Corp., hacker

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

ebay beats Q3, adjusts guidance for Q4, FY08

eBay reported third quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street’s expectations with revenues of $2.12 billion, up $228 million from the third quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $592 million, or 46 cents per share. GAAP profits were $492 million, or 38 cents per share. Analysts had been expecting...

Tags: Earnings, eBay Inc., GAAP, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-15

eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000

EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company. The layoffs were largely expected, but the Bill Me Later purchase for $820 million in...

Tags: Payment, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Bill, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-06