Items tagged with 'Bank'
Bank to Allow Check Deposit Via iPhone
The bane of many people is the paper check. Why can't the payer at least use PayPal, right? USAA is about to introduce an iPhone app that will end that hassle once and for all. USAA is a financial services organization which includes banking, insurance, and other services. It launched an iPhone app in May to allows users... Read More
Circuit City Files for Bankruptcy
America’s third largest electronics retailer with 721 stores in the U.S. and 770 in Canada, has petitioned for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond. After losing money in five of the last six quarters and announcing last week it would close 155 stores, Circuit City is seeking bankruptcy protection... Read More
Banking Information Sold on eBay --- for £35
It's not the first time something like this has happened, and it won't be the last. What's worrisome is that it probably happens more often than we know, and we just don't hear about it. No, someone didn't explicitly sell personal info on eBay. What they did was sell a hard drive with the bank account numbers, phone numbers,... Read More
Bank Hackings On The Rise
Bank hacking is up, despite new & improved security measures and growing public awareness regarding internet security:“SecureWorks reported that between June 2006 and December 2006, they blocked attacks from about 808 hackers per bank per month. From the beginning of this year through June, there's been an average of... Read More
I Bank In Luxembourg. I Bet You Do, Too.
PayPal is a real, live bank now. In Luxembourg, anyway. It's not currently allowed to be an American bank, partly because of the complexity of their arrangements with other financial institutions like GE and Mastercard. A funny thing has happened to that funny little payment service you use to buy junk on eBay; it's beginning... Read More
Overdrawn At The Pixel Bank? Go E-mail Bankrupt
Inbox awash in unread messages? Find yourself clicking "Save As New" over and over thinking you'll write a more intelligent reply later, but "later" never seems to come? Do you have a Post-It note stuck to your screen to remind you to buy more Post-It notes? Are you the Haley Joel Osment of personal communication, because... Read More
Laughing All The Way To The Bank
HotHardware mentioned earlier this week that Google had surpassed Microsoft as the most visited internet site. And pretty much every Tech analyst and Apple fanboi has been talking non-stop about the problems Microsoft has had getting their latest OS, Vista, to click with the public. Well analysts or no, the cash register... Read More
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