By David Shamah
Israeli startup Covertix makes sure that only the “right people” – in the “right places” – get to read your sensitive documents. When a Covertix “self-protected file” gets distributed, you know who read it and where, and what they did with it. Thus, you get to keep an eye on your intellectual property even when it’s in someone else’s hands. Just like there are rules for network access, there are now rules for accessing documents, so you know that your information is being viewed by the people who are supposed to be seeing them, when they’re supposed to be seeing them.
By David Shamah
Ebiz mobility has developed a payment clearing system that enables merchants to feel secure that they will get paid, without having to pay expensive premiums to billing service providers; it enables sites or cellphone service providers to grab a piece of the business that passes through their network; and it allows hundreds of millions of web surfers who would otherwise be locked out of internet commerce the opportunity to purchase digital contents and products.
By David Shamah
What do you do if you want to buy something from a store where they don’t take credit cards?
Pay cash, of course!
Okay, but what if you want to buy something really big – say, a car – and the person you’re buying it from doesn’t trust banks; no checks accepted, no credit cards, no nothing, Just plain old cash. And they live in a bad neighborhood – which makes you very nervous about shlepping around big amounts of cash. Now what?
The scenario I’ve just described is not some from the anti-bank gold bug Luddite playbook, but a reasonably realistic description [...]
