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Paul Penrose

HP boxes clever...not

HP has dedicated a fair amount of corporate Web space to promoting it's environmentally-friendly 'Green Giant' credentials. So I'm assuming this report from the Register is some kind of elaborate jo...

21 Jul 2008
Going green
Paul Penrose

Attack of the clones: NXP gets short shrift from Dutch court

NXP's attempts to block publication of a research paper detailing alleged security weaknesses in the Mifare chips used in Transport for London's Oyster smart cards has backfired somewhat. The manufact...

21 Jul 2008
Paul Penrose

Heaven knows I'm miserable now

New figures from Peter Gabriel’s entertainment recommendation website TheFilter.com show a dramatic rise in liking for ‘depressing music’, as the credit crunch bites. The Ten Most Popular Depressing...

16 Jul 2008
Whatever...
Paul Penrose

Bank puts user PCs into quarantine

Australian credit union BCU has taken a novel approach to online banking security by scanning customer PCs at the point of log-in for security weaknesses. Given Pete's rather scary post yesterday on ...

16 Jul 2008
Paul Penrose

The madness of crowds

A man sits in the pouring rain outside a city centre shop wearing an all-in-one body suit fashioned from slepping bag material. He is joined overnight by a 200-strong line of people, but steps aside ...

11 Jul 2008
Paul Penrose

Egg looks fragile as Citi begins sell-off

Citi's decision to offload its profitable retail business in Germany could mark the start of a major re-alignment for the US bank's vast overseas network. Citi has announced plans to shed $400 billion...

11 Jul 2008
Finextra50 fintech index
Paul Penrose

Bloomberg, PayPal and Bank of America tune in to iPhone

Hats off to Bloomberg (financial fundamentals), PayPal (P2P payments) and Bank of America (mobile banking) for being ready on day one of the launch of Apple's AppStore on iTunes for iPhone widgets....

11 Jul 2008
Finance 2.0
Paul Penrose

CommSec iPhone trading app shows the way

The share dealing arm of Australia's Commonwealth Bank is ready to cash in on iPhone mania ahead of the initial 3G release in the country Friday. CommSec has developed a native iPhone app that effect...

10 Jul 2008
Futuristic Banking
Paul Penrose

Tellers and sellers don't mix

From the Rip van Winkle school of analysis: "Retail banks must add skills in sales and service to tellers' current transaction processing responsibilities" - TowerGroup. Where have they be...

09 Jul 2008
Paul Penrose

Just how much is Thomson Reuters worth?

Further to my previous post on Merrill Lynch's ruminations over whether or not to shed its 20% stake in Bloomberg (Just how rich is Michael Bloomberg?), maybe we should also be asking: Just how much ...

08 Jul 2008
Finextra50 fintech index
Paul Penrose

Humble pie on menu in Daily Mail staff canteen

Egg on face time for executives of Associated Newspapers. The publisher of UK tabloid the Daily Mail has admitted that a laptop containing financial and personal details of thousands of staff, suppli...

07 Jul 2008
Paul Penrose

Cityboy goes Glasto

Cityboy, Beer and loathing in the Square Mile, is a fictionalised account of rampant egotism, greed, prostitution and drug-taking in the heart of London's financial centre. The lurid tome was penned b...

04 Jul 2008
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