Software Industry Announcements and News


SharewareRadio.com interviews JM Software

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.16.09 under ASP Member Companies, Audio & Multimedia, Web Sites

SharewareRadio.com interviews JM Software

http://sharewareradio.com/

News Reports:

Google launches new music search feature
Google nav system shakes up GPS
Amazon tries to simplify Web buying with PayPhrase
Facebook woos developers with a roadmap
Intel’s next-gen memory closer to reality

The Kiss My Butt Award of the Week
This week it goes to The People’s Daily, The Chinese Communist Party’s main newspaper

This week’s Interview
This week’s guest is Jean-Marie Cluchier. Jean-Marie’s company is JM Software he makes financial software.

http://www.asset-diversification.com/

This iinterview was held in Berlin at ESWC 2008.

http://www.euroconference.org/

Digital River to Power Global Online E-Commerce Stores for Ubisoft

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.15.09 under ASP Member Companies, Business

MINNEAPOLIS–Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, announced that it signed a new e-commerce agreement with Ubisoft®, a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products. Under the agreement, Digital River will be providing a full range of global e-commerce services to power stores throughout the U.S. and Europe that will support online consumer sales and digital downloads of Ubisoft’s popular brands, including Assassin’s Creed® and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell®.

“We continue to expand our e-commerce leadership position in the global online gaming market,” said Joel Ronning, Digital River’s CEO. “We offer publishers multiple revenue models in a single e-commerce solution. From in-store sales, to reoccurring billing and in-game commerce, the strength of our best-of-breed solution continues to attract top game publishers from around the world.”

Ubisoft’s EMEA chief operating officer, Stéphanie Perotti added, “In today’s market where an increasing number of consumers are making their purchases online, it is important for Ubisoft to equip itself with the best online e-commerce stores. Ubisoft is pleased to be partnering with Digital River, a provider who not only understands the particularities of the video game industry, but has proven its expertise time and time again.”

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft is a leading producer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment products worldwide and has grown considerably through a strong and diversified line-up of products and partnerships. Ubisoft is present in 28 countries and has sales in more than 55 countries around the globe. It is committed to delivering high-quality, cutting-edge video game titles to consumers. For the 2008–2009 fiscal year, Ubisoft generated sales of 1.058 billion Euros. To learn more, please visit www.ubisoftgroup.com.

About Digital River, Inc.

Digital River, Inc., a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, builds and manages online businesses for software and game publishers, consumer electronics manufacturers, distributors, online retailers and affiliates. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud management, export controls, tax management, physical and digital product fulfillment, multi-lingual customer service, advanced reporting and strategic marketing services.

Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices across the U.S., Asia, Europe and South America. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call +1-952-253-1234.

Fraudulent Automated Clearing House (ACH) Transfers Connected To Malware And Work-At-Home Scams

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.12.09 under Government News, Security & Privacy

Within the last several months, the FBI has seen a significant increase in fraud involving the exploitation of valid online banking credentials belonging to small and medium businesses, municipal governments, and school districts. In a typical scenario, the targeted entity receives a “spear phishing” email which either contains an infected attachment, or directs the recipient to an infected web site. Once the recipient opens the attachment or visits the web site, malware is installed on their computer. The malware contains a key logger which will harvest the recipients business or corporate bank account log-in information. Shortly thereafter, the perpetrator either creates another user account with the stolen log-in information, or directly initiates funds transfers by masquerading as the legitimate user. These transfers have occurred as both traditional wire transfers and as ACH transfers.

Further reporting has shown that the transfers are directed to the bank accounts of willing or unwitting individuals within the United States. Most of these individualshave been recruited via work-at-home advertisements, or have been contacted after placing resumes on well-known job search web sites. These persons are often hired to “process payments”, or “transfer funds”. They are told they will receive wire transfers into their bank accounts. Shortly after funds are received, they are directed to immediately forward most of the money overseas via wire transfer services such as Western Union and Moneygram.

Customers who use online banking services are advised to contact their financial institution to ensure they are employing all the appropriate security and fraud prevention services their institution offers.

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has made information on banking securely online available at

http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/Banking_Securely_Online07102006.pdf.

Protecting your computer against malicious software is an ongoing activity and, at minimum, all computer systems need to be regularly patched, have up to date anti-virus software, and a personal firewall installed. Further information is available at http://www.us-cert.gov/nav/nt01/.

If you have experienced unauthorized funds transfers from your bank accounts, or if you have been recruited via a work-at-home opportunity to receive transfers and forward money overseas, please notify the IC3 by filing a complaint at www.IC3.gov.

For a detailed analysis of this scam please visit http://www.ic3.gov/media/2009/091103-1.aspx.

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