First Tennessee Bank Rebuilds Customer-facing Web Site

First Tennessee Bank redesigned its customer-facing Web site to provide online customers with the same level of service that it delivers in person.

Samsung Launches 3D TVs

The company’s 3-D products — including LED, LCD, and plasma televisions and a 3-D Blu-ray player — will begin shipping this month.

Seeding Security into the Cloud

The RSA conference seeks to use lessons from single-tenant data centers to build security into cloud computing infrastructures. – The RSA conference, held in San Francisco during the week of March 1, sought to catch the cloud computing wave, while the expo show floor was packed to the gills with vendors wheeling and dealing primarily in products that relate to the well-known problems of today.

Samsung Plans E-Reader, Barnes and Noble Partnership

Samsung will partner with Barnes Noble for its upcoming E60 eReader, which will access Barnes Noble’s e-book store for downloadable texts and leverage the booksellers e-book lending feature. Originally announced at CES, the 6-inch Samsung device will rely on either a PC connection or built-in WiFi for book downloading, and include a stylus for inputting notes or using the scheduling and memo features

LifeLock Settles FTC Charges For $12 Million

The FTC complaint alleged that the firm’s identity theft protection and data security claims were false.

Equitable Life of Canada Uses HP Exstream to Streamline Customer Communications

HP Exstream will provide a single software platform for Equitable Life of Canada to create, manage and deliver a variety of communications, in multiple languages , to its customers.

Dell Revs Vostro Laptops

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Thrivent Notifies Members of Breach of Unsecured Personal Information

Laptop stolen from Pennsylvania office contained personal information, including name, address, social security number and health information.

BofA to Block Debit Card Overdrafts

Good news for customers who inadvertently overdrew and were charged $39 a day.

Rise in Online Banking Fraud Costing Banks Customers, Study Says

Ponemon Institute/Guardian Analytics study finds 40 percent of small and medium businesses change banks after a fraud incident.