Financial

Poor people in rural Africa have no way to send or receive payments to distant merchants. An entrepreneur's solution is software that oversees a system using pre-paid cards with serial numbers that can be entered into mobile phones

The telecommunications firm has offered $763 million for the e-commerce company as part of its strategy to target care providers with point-of-care applications that work over secure wireless and wireline networks

The firm plans on maintaining long-term viability with a new software development kit for its business service management appliance, but observers say it's moving in a crowded space

Smart cards are poised for growth in 2006, according to an analyst report, but as far as the Canadian market goes, some industries are smartening up faster than others.

Fidelity Investments confirmed that a laptop containing confidential information on more than 196,000 current and former employees at Hewlett-Packard Co. and its acquisitions was recently stolen from the company. The theft may have exposed information including the names, social security numbers and compensation details for the workers.

Financial sector CIOs take note

Working with a clean technology slate, CTO Mo Hirani can attend to the complex demands of outsourcing without being encumbered by the burden of legacy systems. Compared to the lot of most IT execs, it

Managing electronic identities is gaining ground as a necessary counter to protect Internet banking users and other online customers from the increasingly criminal usage of the worldwide Web.