Payments industry rethinks business model for the digital era
Making a payment, transaction or moving money should be as simple as sending a text message to a friend, says Stephen Karpin of Visa.
Making a payment, transaction or moving money should be as simple as sending a text message to a friend, says Stephen Karpin of Visa.
The tight grip of the recession has eased, giving more CIOs the green light for innovation and upgrades, particularly cloud computing. Sixty-one percent of the 305 heads of IT that responded to our survey on technology priorities say they're putting more money toward the cloud-a 10 percent increase from last year.
Thanks to the power of Apple's marketing machine, it's likely most people have heard of the iPhone - and want one.
But it's far less likely at this stage that employers will foot the bill to kit their workers out with the coveted handsets, and corporate technology departments are all but certain to bar iPhone owners from putting the device on the company network as well.
Faster innovation, better security, new markets -- the case for opening Swift might be more compelling than Apple will admit