BillGuard is the web version of checking through your credit card bill.

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While millions of consumers have grown comfortable with entering credit-card information into a Web site, reports of massive identity theft continue to crimp online sales.

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Consumers using one of the Web sites were asked to provide personal information and a valid credit card number to get a copy of their credit report.

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Those included posting private data, including credit-card and Social Security numbers, of Web users and launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against media sites who posted stories they didn't like.

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For example, will the new Qwikster web site automatically know the credit card and account numbers of existing DVD-by-Mail customers or will those customers have to re-enter all their information?

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His most successful venture was iBill, which handled online credit card transactions in the early days of the Web.

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First, for a credit-card payment of twenty-five dollars, the Web site will verify your name and address (which means that a member can be certain she is hosting the real Ripper, and not an impostor).

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Nokia added that no credit card details were accessed, although about 7% of the compromised records included data for other web accounts like Skype.

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Now, consider that most of what we think of as "big data" is created by deliberate human action: phone calls, Web logs, credit card transactions, etc.

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Although I installed it ages ago I have finally gotten around to seeing the power of Evernote, a free downloadable app that lets you clip to the cloud Web pages, photos, business card signatures and more.

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The basic premise of these bank disintermediaries is that they harness the networking power of the Web to match people who have excess cash with people in need of it or those who simply want to refinance credit card debt.

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