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Richard J. D'Aogustino of Videogate Technologies Inc of Charlotte, NC is attempting to combine self-service remote banking with face-to-face sales methods. High costs, insufficient telecommunications bandwidth, the lack of video directories, and the technology combination difficulties at the traditional call centers have been obstacles to this in the past. However, D'Aogustine believes his new tachnology came overcome this., Putting a fresh face on an old vision, one of the pioneers of banking by kiosk is promoting a new place for video-conferencing: the privacy of the home. Richard J. [...]

Internet commerce in the year 2002 looks big. At International Data Corp. (IDC), we're wrapping up our forecast for 2002. More than $400 billion of the world's economic transactions will […]

Tangible products--such as t-shirts, cds and books--are often easier to find and purchase online than digital products such as software. One of the reasons, ironically, is that distributing digital goods […]

NEW YORK -- Electronic commerce is entering a new stage, with some retailers reporting huge spikes in consumer sales and success in running business-to-business programs over the Internet. But taking [...]

VeriSign Inc. is having a major hand in the future of the OFX specification for home banking. VeriSign, in Mountain View, Calif., last week introduced the Financial Server ID, a […]

Dutch financial giant ING Group is rolling out Canada's first foreign-owned virtual bank. The move follows on the heels of Citizens Bank, a national branchless bank started by Vancouver City [...]

It would be easy to slam Microsoft about getting into the retail business. Besides considering opening a retail store, the publisher has been pouring money into electronic software distribution and […]

Washington: In a move that would make even small purchases on the World Wide Web economically feasible transactions, AT&T Corp. said it plans to test the Mondex electronic cash technology […]

ACCORDING TO A REPORT CONDUCTED by Advanced Manufacturing Research (MR), a Boston-based technology consulting firm, more than 80% of manufacturers surveyed plan to link customers and suppliers using the Internet […]

Countrywide Home Loans Inc. offers potential borrowers the ability to pre-qualify for a loan by entering information at the bank's World Wide Web site. Bank representatives follow up with a telephone call to the customer. Countrywide Executive VP Jeremy V. Gross says 200 customers already communicate with the bank over the Internet. Using the Web cuts the bank's spending on mail, faxes and other document-related necessities. Countrywide plans to expand its electronic services., While other lenders are still dabbling with the Internet, Countrywide Home Loans is using the network to deliver sophisticated services to customers and correspondents. 'We have embraced Internet technologies,' said [...]

Mass acceptance of on-line card transactions is one step closer to reality as a handful of recognized companies partner to advance digital certificates for Internet card payments. Before you put [...]

Despite all the talk of dynamic Web content, interactive sales and support services are still in the developmental stage on the Web sites of major IT vendors. 'Very few have […]

How to make money on the World-Wide Web remains the $64,000 question, but a couple of potentially profitable business models have taken root. The primary one is selling advertising. And […]

The Federal National Mortgage Association unveiled a new electronic system which would link lenders with financial information providers at the spring 1996 meeting of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Federal Housing Administration insurance claims can be directly filed by lenders with the Department of Housing and Urban Development over the network, reducing processing time from 60 days to two days., One of the things that happens every spring is a meeting of secondary-market executives sponsored by the Mortgage Bankers Association. And it has become the custom for the federal housing [...]

As a confessed catalog-shopping addict, I think little of giving my credit-card number out over the telephone. So I'm often puzzled over the fuss about sending these same digits over […]

Data encryption and on-line payment system producers are trying to convince the banking and credit card industries to adopt Internet commerce technologies. Data security companies, such as RSA Data Security Inc., are beginning to build a payment infrastructure with brand name companies such as MasterCard International Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Security issues continue to halt industry acceptance of on-line commerce technologies., Bankers struggling to make headway on the information highway can take heart: They have achieved celebrity status in at least one outside community. It is the data security industry, much [...]

I quit drinking booze back in the 1970s after running up a $600 bar bill in the wee hours at a discotheque near Rio de Janeiro. The strobe light kept […]