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Cehck out the video. The antenna is looped around to fit the wristband.

Enterprise package suppliers in the vendor community will also need to pay close attention. Chrome is more than just another Web browser. It is also the start of an operating system play on the part of Google. Those vendors who haven't done so already might want to think of the implications for their financial model and look at new delivery methodologies revolving around Software as a Service and Cloud computing strategies.

For an alternative take on Google's comic capers, check out The Register, whose photshopping readers have come up with a satirical interpretation of the truth behind the speech bubbles.

James has a point. Cutting out uneccessary costs can help to create a leaner, more nimble organisation, better equipped to ride through the hard times and face off new competition. But, you have to be careful how you apply your cost-cutting measures if you're not to aleniate staff and stifle innovation. Saving a few pence on employee perks while the boardroom continues to enjoy extravagant spending is not good business practice.

I wonder how many staff at the bank have access to customers' personal passwords. A security risk, surely?

That Citi cost-cutting memo also included some harder hitting diktats relating to technology spend, Blackberry allowances and market data useage. But, it's not just the plebs on the shop floor who are making sacrifices. CNBC television reported Tuesday Citi cut another, more unusual cost: the construction of a $45 million Japanese garden near its executive suites.

Stanley

Couldn't agree more with your analysis. Check out this story in yesterday's Independent: Bear bet that netted £141 million throws fresh suspicion on collapse.

Now wonder almost 60 percent of European and US institutional investors are expecting another large financial firm to collapse within the next six months, according to a survey by Greenwich Associates.

Bank Machine MD Ron Delnevo has been touring radio and television newsrooms this morning to explain the scheme. Good citizenship aside, Bank Machine's business is primarily based around the provision of ATMs in low income areas and at military bases and hospitals. The long-term viability of the business is of course under threat from the provision of contactless payments, which have been pitched as a substitute for low-value cash transactions. Interesting that Delnevo is keen to highlight the Bank of England's backing of the programme - effectively pitting the central bank and its vested interest in the money supply chain, against the major retailers and high street banks who are pushing for more plastic payments.

I see the chancellor, Alistair Darling was spotted at a Leonard Cohen concert in London the other night. Maybe the economy's in worse shape than we thought.

Sean Park has an interesting take on this in his Park Paradigm blog. Budding info-entrepeneurs form a line over here.