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Mobile Payments Growth Slower Than Expected 07/22/2011
In advanced markets, the firm believes the promise of mobile payments driven by NFC technology is at least four years away from reaching mass adoption. “The biggest hurdle is the need to change user behavior by convincing consumers to pay with mobile phones instead of cash and cards,” said Sandy Shen, research director at Gartner.
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While You’re Here: Crafting the ‘Following Salesman’ 07/22/2011
If done artfully and well, mobile media and technology is capable of reversing a century-old model of selling — where salespeople went to people’s homes or waited for interested consumers to come to them. In some ways, mobile replaces the traveling and in-store salesmen with the newer (albeit slightly creepy) model of the “following salesman.”
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MILITARY: Pentagon takes lead in cybersecurity efforts
An explosion in threats against the nation’s cybernetworks has led the Pentagon to develop a cyberwar strategy and prompted states to open cybersecurity offices.
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Blogging Innovation » Innovation Champions Must Beat Devil’s Advocates
In an organization, it’s human nature to resist change and to stick with the status quo that’s often more comfortable and safe. Some of your teammates in your company may be devil’s advocates who claim they want what’s best for the business while they oppose initiatives for Innovation. As a leader and innovator-in-chief of your company, it is critical to drive the culture of Innovation throughout the organization even in the face of opposition.
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First rule of IT governance: To cut costs, align business and IT
IT governance springs from the simple and common desire to align IT departments more closely with an organization’s most important business needs. Done right, the process unites IT and the business side in a partnership that helps companies leverage technologies not simply for their “wow factor,” but to capitalize on opportunities to save costs, improve business processes and edge out less innovative competitors.
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Google & Facebook Set Company Records for Lobbyist Spending
It’s been one quarter since Facebook offered an explanation of its privacy efforts to the FTC and one month since Google confirmed it was the target of an FTC antitrust investigation. Now it seems both tech giants have decided to pay more attention — and more cash — to Washington.
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TrueCare.com Offers Eight Tips for Protecting Kids From Cyberbullies
Eight common sense tips for maintaining a safe internet environment in your home.
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Facial recognition targets problem casino gamblers
In May, OLG began rolling out the new facial recognition system designed to keep tabs on the province’s estimated 300,000 “problem gamblers.” Cameras were mounted at casino entrances to digitally scan the faces of all visitors. Problem gamblers who voluntarily signed up for the self-exclusion list can be stopped by security staff from playing at the casino. But regular casino visitors will also be digitally scanned, although their facial photos are almost immediately discarded if their name is not on the list.
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Breach law passes hurdle, but faces opposition – SC Magazine US
Following a lengthy debate, the bill, Secure and Fortify Electronic (SAFE) Data Act, passed the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade. Introduced by Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Calif., the legislation would pre-empt state data breach notification laws and require compromised companies to notify the Federal Trade Commission and affected individuals within 48 hours of determining those whose personal information was lost or stolen.
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Pfizer latest corporate victim in hacktivist attacks – SC Magazine US
The Facebook page for Pfizer has returned online after it was compromised by hackers who posted remarks disparaging the pharmaceutical giant. U.K.-based group The Script Kiddies claimed responsibility with gaining control of Pfizer’s Facebook page, which has nearly 30,000 followers, to post updates that called the company “corrupt” and “irresponsible.”
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Phone hacking investigation widens to sale of private details | Media | The Guardian
The Information Commissioner’s Office has confirmed it has passed to police the files of an investigation carried out five years ago into the sale of private information to journalists.
The transfer of the files, from Operation Motorman, a 2006 inquiry into the use of private investigators by newspapers, which documented the practices of Stephen Whittamore and associates, marks the widening of the phone hacking inquiry to the broader issue of paying for confidential information.
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Corporate governance 101: the buck stops with Rupert Murdoch
As anybody with a basic understanding of corporate governance will tell you, the buck ultimately stops with with the chairman and chief executive.
Just because Murdoch Snr was not made aware of the claims of wrongdoing early, as both the chairman and chief executive of News Corp he is ultimately responsible. He and his board of directors are there to serve the company’s shareholders, while acting in accordance with all legal and regulatory standards and diligently applying risk management.
Responsibility for the governance and culture of a corporate reside with the board and chair. They must delegate responsibilities to management, but also ensure that management is accountable to them.
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Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News ran ‘black ops’ department, former executive claims – Telegraph
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News television channel had a “black ops” department that may have illegally hacked private telephone records, a former executive for the station has alleged.
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Bones of Hitler deputy exhumed, burned scattered at sea – CTV News
The bones of Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, were exhumed under cover of darkness, burned and secretly scattered at sea, a cemetery administrator in the Bavarian town of Wunsiedel said Thursday.
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Hackers New Target: Small Firms With Lax Security – WSJ.com
Recent hacking attacks on Sony Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. grabbed headlines. What happened at City Newsstand Inc. last year did not.
Unbeknownst to owner Joe Angelastri, cyber thieves planted a software program on the cash registers at his two Chicago-area magazine shops that sent customer credit-card numbers to Russia. MasterCard Inc. demanded an investigation, at Mr. Angelastri’s expense, and the whole ordeal left him out about $22,000.
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