Profile of Elena Malykhina

Technology Journalist Blog Posts: 9
Elena Malykhina began her career at The Wall Street Journal, and her writing has appeared in various news media outlets, including Scientific American, Newsday, and the Associated Press. For several years, she was the online editor at Brandweek and later Adweek, where she followed the world of advertising. Having earned the nickname of "gadget girl," she is excited to be writing about technology again for InformationWeek, where she worked in the past as an associate editor covering the mobile and wireless space. She now writes about the federal government and NASA’s space missions on occasion.

Financial Firms Use Software Tools to Reduce Risk, Comply with New Regulations

11/30/2006
About a quarter of all companies have to comply with an average of six to eight regulations, and larger financial services firms are subject to a dozen or more, says the Yankee Group.

2007 Is Looking Like The Year Cell Phone Banking Gets Started

11/22/2006
Big banks aren't on board yet. But the infrastructure's being put in place, and Cingular is about to turn up the heat.

Phone Banking System Knows You by Your Voice

11/3/2006
Software from RSA refers to a voiceprint -- essentially a sound bite of a voice -- and matches it to individual customers.

9/7/2006
The industry spends more than average on IT and relies heavily on business intelligence tools and wireless e-mail

Feds Lead The XBRL Charge

5/26/2006
Regulators are pushing banks and financial services firms to use the XBRL standard to report financial data. Public companies are next.

10 Top Pitfalls Of Implementing Converged IP Networks

8/12/2005
Hossein Eslambolchi, CIO and chief technology officer at AT&T, outlines steps businesses can take to avoid problems as they move to converged networks of voice, video and data.

Works Without Wires: Capital One Builds Wireless Campus

7/15/2005
Most companies are content with a couple of Wi-Fi conference rooms, but Capital One thinks a wireless campus will spur game-changing brainstorms. Is it time to reconsider the potential of wireless?

Chase To Issue RFID-Embedded Credit Cards

5/19/2005
The technology, called "blink," will let consumers make purchases by passing RFID-chip-embedded cards in front a point-of-sale terminal.

SAP Helps Banks Comply With Global Regulations

4/26/2005
A new application is designed to help banks comply with recently enacted European rules on reporting financial assets and liabilities.