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On June 30, data security standards set by the Payment Card Industry became mandatory for organizations that handle online credit card payments. This is a significant milestone in the ongoing push to strengthen online security as these important standards have moved from recommendations to hard and fast mandates.

We live in interesting times. According to Gartner Research VP Robert Anderson, if all the people on the MySpace virtual community banded together, they'd form the eighth largest country in the world. Never before in history could people create such large communities and communicate so readily as they can today, thanks to the social networking environment.

Enterprises have long sought ways to add real-time communications to business applications to improve customer interactions, streamline workflows, more quickly respond to critical events and more efficiently execute time-sensitive transactions. Integrating interactive communications with software applications and business processes, however, has proven difficult, costly and time-consuming.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire sets up an electronic ad department in Japan, as it looks to boost its growth in Web advertising globally.

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DreamWorks Animation is teaming up with Intel to build a new kind of 3-D moviemaking technology. The two companies have formed a strategic alliance in which Intel will provide both hardware and software for the Hollywood giant. The move marks the end of DreamWorks' three-year deal with AMD and will result in all new systems for the studio's computers. Financial terms are not being disclosed.

NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) H3 Enterprises, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: HTRE), the world's first publicly traded Hip-Hop company, has signed an agreement with Michigan-based GamerSaloon.com. The web property, to be announced officially in the coming days, will offer video gamers of all skill levels the ability to win money and prizes as they game. The site will support a variety of multiplayer tournaments, rule-sets and video game titles. The site will also provide support for all major video gaming platforms. "We are excited to be working with GamerSaloon.com to power our online mulitplayer pay-to-play engine. This agreement

BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) Payments and settlement, the final processing piece in the accounts payable puzzle, is typically wrought with manual methods, with as many as 65% of B2B payments made via paper-based checks. By utilizing electronic payment methods such as ACH (Automated Clearing House), commercial cards, and wire transfer, enterprises can reap the benefits of cheaper transaction costs and reduce the risk of fraud, according to a new benchmark report published by Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS).

Microsoft is offering some of its most popular acquisitions via cloud computing with the rollout of Microsoft Online Services. Like many vendors adopting this delivery mode, Microsoft is seeking to exploit companies' eagerness to downsize their internal IT and computing infrastructures to the greatest extent possible.

Sega is betting people will want to tap into the Olympic spirit on their phones.