Doing Business Online

2007-12-28T08:59:00.000-08:00

Protecting customer information is one of the most important things that an online business has to ensure. Afterall, if your customers dont trust you, then they wont be your customers for long.

Recently there has been a spate of companies that have managed to loose customer information, from governments to building societies and banks. These companies failed to put into place the basic protocols to ensure that information that is private, remains that way.

eTrust recently launched a privacy certification that was intended to enforce this, its not suprising that most of these companies arent certified by eTrust, but instead have the absolutely useless TrustE certification.

2007-03-30T13:34:00.000-07:00

TJ Maxx announced today that over 45 million customers have had their credit card and personal information stolen after the company's servers were hacked.

The sheer scale of the breach is astounding, as is the fact that TJ Maxx have no idea of when the breach occured.

This is just another example of the fact that companys have not adapted their policies to ensure that customer data is properly protected. TJ Maxx should be fined, and forced to ensure their customers are tracked via services such as Experian to ensure that they are not the victims of fraud.

2006-03-21T01:32:00.000-08:00

Dell to swtich to AMD? : Allied Journal in what would be a major loss for Intel, Dell are considering switching to AMD.
This is an amazing turn around in fortunes for AMD, which was almost dead a year or so ago, and for Intel it would signal the fall from grace so many have forseen.

2006-02-28T05:33:00.000-08:00

Bird flu seems a realistic possibility, businesses should start putting together a basic plan for what they intend to do if the worse does happen. Heres an example of a contingency plan.

2005-10-07T06:33:00.000-07:00

Hopefully not long until CEO of the year is announced, wonder who it will be. Odds are its not gonig to be Steve Ballmer given the state Microsoft is in right now!

2005-09-29T04:43:00.000-07:00

A news article on Lexdon suggestions that GlaxoSmithkline will be outsourcing large amounts of its server operations to ACS. The deal is worth about $100 million! What it doesnt mention is all those who are going to loose their jobs.

2004-04-15T04:51:00.000-07:00

Companies that are rogue traders can now find themselves with a negative ISN rating! Hurrah, no more scams... I hope!

2004-03-12T10:35:00.000-08:00

Interesting facts about the going ons at Adecco these days, especially since the Business Ethics people starting tracking them!

2004-02-05T05:37:00.000-08:00

Hurrah, looks like another Mad Max movie is in the pipe, titled Mad Max 4, according to Qmovies.

2004-02-05T05:33:00.000-08:00

Just found a news article on the BBC about Ms Jacksons Super Bowl show and how it make net history, read it here.

2004-02-05T05:26:00.000-08:00

Found a nice article on ISO9001 for small businesses, seems to make the points nice and clear.

2004-01-02T05:01:00.000-08:00

The internet has changed the way we do business forever, but that neednt stop small businesses for exploiting this environment.