Wickes: payment card security is hard to DIY (Accountancy Age)

DIY retailer Wickes is working towards compliance with payment card data security rules by upgrading its chip-and-PIN systems and improving security. Last year the firm rolled out payments processing software to manage 1,300 tills in 178 stores.

FUD on FUD (Linux Devices)

O'Dowd points to recent marketing efforts from the Big Two Linux vendors, including a recent article in Military Embedded Systems, in which Jim Ready, founder and CTO of MontaVista, writes that large-scale DIY projects using embedded Linux can be "a significant investment (read 'big bucks') in time and money," and then goes on to argue that DIY development can be a "software money pit."

IT Business Top Stories (ITBusiness.ca)

IBM unveils plans to create global apps market for SMBs by: James Niccolai (5/2/2008 9:57:50 AM) The goal is to make it easier for companies with small or nonexistent IT departments select and adopt new software and services from thousands of ISVs around the world.

Home Consumer/DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Video Surveillance Camera Market to be $1 Billion by 2012, Creating New Revenue ... (Broadcast Newsroom)

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., BUSINESS WIRE -- Video surveillance in consumer homes promises to drive a new market for consumer/DIY cameras and remote home monitoring services.

Home Consumer/DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Video Surveillance Camera Market to be $1 Billion by 2012, Creating New Revenue ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.----Video surveillance in consumer homes promises to drive a new market for consumer/DIY cameras and remote home monitoring services. Growing consumer awareness and product offerings will enable the market for consumer/DIY surveillance cameras to grow to over $1 billion dollars by 2012.