The latest trends, market research and analysis, on handheld PCs, smartphones, and the mobile payment market from KPMG. 

The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.” 

Bonus payments have long been a feature of the reward package for most IT professionals, but when the UKeconomy went into freefall during late 2008, many employers either reduced such payments or did away withthem altogether. 

Juniper Research defines mobile banking as  “the provision of banking services to customers on their mobile devices”: specifically we mean in the vast majority of instances “the operation of bank current and deposit or savings accounts”. 

This handbook will cover best practices for moving to Microsoft Windows 7, including assessing Windows 7 to determine if it’s a good move for your organization, which applications in your organization should move over, what help is out there for your migration project and licensing. 

This document presents a reference architecture and additional controls needed to address the three cloud challenges to achieve PCI compliance. 

This comprehensive interactive classroom explores what you need to know about server virtualization, and provides insights, analyses, and answers to FAQs. 

One of the biggest challenges and concerns of businesses moving to the cloud is ensuring regulatory compliance and security. Discover how Patronpath, a company that processes and handles online credit card transactions for customers, increased scalability and decreased costs by adopting PCI-compliant cloud services. 

This technical guide, brought to you by SearchSecurity.com offers a global perspective on the various technologies available for organizations to meet the stringent requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). View now to explore PCI DSS guidance for encryption, tokenization and virtualization technologies. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

This brief white paper examines how one health care organization was able to improve practice management and accelerate EHR implementation with HP converged infrastructure. 

Adhering to the requirements of the PCI DSS, especially in a cloud computing environment, is no easy task and unfortunately there is no one-size-fits all approach. This guide offers expert insight on PCI in the cloud as well as key guidance to help you navigate through the cloud to meet compliance goals. 

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) makes technology a true business enabler and empowers business and technology leaders to respond to change with increased agility. This e-book introduces you to the basics of SOA in context with the real-life experiences.