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Warning - content contains some nostalgia. Nice piece on the BBC about the ZX Spectrum, brainchild of Clive Sinclair which hit the shops in 1982. Must have been around that time that I splashed out on one from the co-op in Norwich - and then upgraded it with a kit to a heady 48k of memory. Then after three weeks of further tinkering with a solde...
23 April 2007 Whatever...
I see the BBC are reporting that after a campaign by customers - Dell is again offering Windows XP with new PCs as an alternative to Vista. Michael Silver, research vice president at Gartner said this is odd behaviour for consumers - who tend to opt for the latest versions of everything. But is it that odd? Perhaps it shows that consumers are g...
20 April 2007
Superb piece of research from Chris, detailing Paypals history since inception in Dec 98, with statistics, and more importantly, why they were successful. "In fact, although many of us think PayPal displaces banks, it actually enhances banking services as demonstrated by the bank services behind PayPal. For example, PayPal runs through Wells F...
11 April 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
The Internet changed banking forever. It is impossible to consider banking without the functionality, the ease of use and the availability that Internet banking brought to the majority of people WITH bank accounts. This was a silent revolution and became prevalent in only a few years. During the 1990's banks started offering rudimentary banking se...
03 April 2007 /payments
In an interesting twist of daftness it would appear blogging is to be made compulsory at Sony BMG, according to The Register. In the past, people have got in serious hot water after blogging and not quite following the company line, but it seems now that Sony folk in the "creative areas" will be expected to blog or be frowned upon. I wou...
03 April 2007 Cringeworthy marketing gallery
I blogged here last August, that it was predicted Man in the Middle attacks would defeat tokens, and sure enough here we go. "The bank says that its customers opened an email attachment that resulted in a virus being executed on their machines. This virus changed their browsers' behaviour so when they went to open the real ABN Amro online ban...
03 April 2007 /security Trends in Financial Services
Chicago-based Mintel, a global supplier of consumer, product and media intelligence, report a new study that suggests younger consumers are shunning online banking. Conveniently later in the press release, they point out that contactless credit cards will come to the rescue and save the day. My view: companies such as Mintel, particularly those...
29 March 2007 /security Trends in Financial Services
Interesting blog on the BBC site about Bob Diamond's hefty 22 million earnings for the last year, or rather the comments on the blog are interesting. He's head of Barclays investment banking service which has been doing rather well of late, but is he worth this much? As you might expect, there's a bit of a kerfuffle about it and overall it's ano...
27 March 2007
A cane toad the size of a small dog has been found down under. Nicknamed Toadzilla, the BBC reports that the feisty amphibian weighs in at a tad under a kilo and is the largest ever found in Australia's Northern territory. Or rather - largest so far. . .
27 March 2007 Whatever...
This story from The Register of a driver who plunged her Mercedes worth knocking on a hundred grand into a river caught my eye. The driver ignored signs warning the track was unsuitable for motor vehicles and drove straight into something of a raging torrent. Why would someone do something apparently so daft? There is an experiment in psychology ...
26 March 2007 Whatever...
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