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FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - The Washington Credit Union League scheduled a hearing during its government affairs conference, on a proposed field-of-membership regulation change that would allow well-run CUs to expand their field-of-membership by a board vote instead of requiring them to receive approval from the state regulator. Parker Cann, director...

The UPnP problem was discovered by a young California computer whiz, a 21-year-old reformed hacker whose company, eEye Digital Security (www.eeye.com), held off announcing it until Microsoft could prepare a fix. It's that kind of cooperation that makes the whole thing work, Butler points out. "Servers are exposed to the...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - From bits and bytes at credit unions to dinner and dessert in Beverly Hills. Digital Insight co-founder Paul Fiore, who is still a director with DI, is a one-third owner in Chadwick of Beverly Hills, an upscale restaurant opened a year and a month ago. Chadwick's...

Froehlich's approach is what the industry sees happening more and more, using technology to supplement the interaction that's required for many types of learning. A PowerPoint slide delivered over the Internet is just that, a PowerPoint slide, and it can't replace human interaction, but the art of Internet training is...

TAMPA, Fla. - CUNA's for-profit arm, now known as CUNA Strategic Services, Inc., has had its share of business failures over the years, but CUNA Network Services President John Hobko said the strategy CSSI has taken with CNS is the polar opposite of yesteryear. Hobko is one of the founders...

Tom Ha sees the challenges grow daily. "Staying up to date on firewalls and anti-virus software is critical to a good operation," says the information systems manager at AmeriChoice FCU, a $70 million, 11,000-member organization in Mechanicsburg, Pa. "Money in accounts is really just another form of data, the real,...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - When Hewlett-Packard announced the end of the line for the senior citizen of its business-computing line, users likely took notice. After nearly 30 years of service, HP says it will quit selling its workhorse e3000 systems in 2003 and end full support of them in 2006. In...

BALBRIGGAN, Ireland - The Republic of Ireland, the only European country with credit unions directly affected by the Euro, made a smooth transition to the new currency, with a few bumps and some laughs along the way. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have stayed with the English pound, claiming...