Kogan’s credit card check slows sales

Online retailer Kogan has introduced a new security feature to protect against fraudulent use of credit cards. Trouble is it can stall your order for several days.

Deloitte’s predictions for 2013: cause for concern

Predictions for the year ahead are two a penny in the IT industry. I’ve collected two dozen of them this year. They range in quality from almost off-the-cuff comments by this or that analyst to thoroughly researched projections arrived at through the consensus of many participants. Deloitte’s annual Telecommunications, Media and Technology predictions belong to the latter category. So what are they telling us and what should be do with this information?

Digital economy policy development by stealth

The government has expanded the scope of a very public process to develop cyber security policy into one for the development of long term policy for the digital economy as a whole, but at the same time closed the door to public participation.