Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) membership has recently been widened. It happened after the central banks of Australia, Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and South Korea admitted the Committee's suggestion to enter.

Interpret, a market research firm focused on entertainment, media and technology, has released a study that polled 64 million people of which 24 million respondents (36%) admitted that they had downloaded music illegally in the past three months. These online

During Monday early European deals, the 16-nation currency spoke higher, reaching new multi-week highs against the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen after a report showed that the German consumer confidence for August improved strongly, suggesting a recovery in the

According to the Wall Street Journal report, JP Morgan Chase & Co renovated some of its senior equities staff targeting to leverage the bank for more impact into prime brokerage.So, Richard Berliand, formerly the global head of cash equities and

The number of Web users in China, reached an all-time high 338 million people for the first six months of 2009, has exceeded the U.S. population, said on Sunday the Chinese News Agency Xinhua, citing the Department of Industry and

Russian businesses have teamed up for lobby against VoIP services such as Skype, saying that the technology constitutes a threat to national security, as well as their business. The lobby, called the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, is working

FNBO Direct, First National Bank of Omaha`s Internet banking division, has introduced a new nationwide challenge to encourage all Americans to dedicate themselves to saving money. The revamped web site offers tools and resources, such as the Savings Finder calculator,

On Sunday citing the International Monetary Fund the Financial Times reported that consumer debt defaults in Europe will apparently increase considering the fact the US credit card crisis is spreading to the continent. IMF estimates that 7% of the $2.46

At Oxford TED Global conference Eric Giler of Witricity made a presentation of a device that offers wireless electricity eliminating thus the need for wires to deliver power. Eric Giler showed the charge of mobile phone battery and power transmission

Cyber criminals injected a malicious code into the servers supporting e-commerce merchant Web sites hosted by Network Solutions. This means that details of 573,928 credit and debit cards may have been stolen by perpetrators.According to the company report the malicious

While miserable improvements in the economy haven't influenced unemployment statistics in any way the reports show that employment market is going to be a profitable for investors. When the business is going up companies usually need to add more workers

According to the Reuters report, Monday, opening two days negotiations between high-ranking American and Chinese officials intended to get the new Obama administration off to a good start with Beijing, Barack Obama appealed for deeper collaboration between the economics of

Consumer Electronics Association and the Information Technology Industry Council suggest a different approach to New York City e-waste law. City councilman says current law is a national model.

Android's official code repository has been updated with a fresh load of Donut stuff in the past day or so, and as you might imagine, the dev community is already having a field day with it. Early reports show that

Interesting -- just a couple days after Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told a conference that "it's too early to tell" if the Pre's a hit while talking about Android , the latest Best Buy ad shows Palm's baby on sale

Google's bakery-themed codename scheme for Android is a source of endless amusement (and hunger pangs) for bloggers, readers, and users alike, but with just a few builds actually blessed as gold, retail versions at this point, it's not entirely clear

It's no secret that Telus is kicking off a transition from CDMA to UMTS / HSPA starting later this year, but who would've thought its Koodo Mobile value-oriented brand would be on the front lines? Howard Chui notes that Koodo's

Sadly enough, this is pretty much par for the course with RIM . We talk about a BlackBerry for months on end , and after everyone grows acquainted with its features via less-than-official sources, the company finally confesses. At any