1205 Results from 2008
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Apple have been told not to run a TV ad again in the UK for the iPhone 3G after 17 people complained that it exaggerated the speed of 3G. The ad used the phrase "really fast" repeatedly, coupled with shots of pages being loaded in fractions of a second. Apple maintained that the average viewer was a mobile phone user, would have understoo...
26 November 2008 Cringeworthy marketing gallery
As you may be aware I do occasionally suffer from Internet shopping hand, a condition whereby I lose control of my mouse hand and click on the BUY NOW button. It's even worse on the iPhone apps store. Hence I was powerless to resist the lure of the Smule Ocarina. 59 pence worth of quality programming that turns the iPhone into a musical instrument....
25 November 2008 After hours
Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
Last week I listened to a Woman's Hour* feature about Second Life (OK, I spend too much time commuting). At the time, I couldn't decide whether the arrival of Second Life on Woman's Hour signified it had gone mainstream, or that it was all over for the virtual world. For some reason Second Life on Woman's Hour is a bit like your Granny getting an ...
25 November 2008 Finance 2.0
The 5th Progress Report appeared in July 2007, but it seems that after 16 months have passed, the frustration at the lack of progress towards SEPA felt in the European Central Bank has forced them back into print. They note that ‘motivation for the project has been fading away among market participants'. I have said for some time that self-regulati...
25 November 2008
Interesting item on the BBC web site about the effects of poor management skills on employees. A study published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine looked at 3000 males and found some startling facts. Poor management increases stress levels but there is also a clear increase in the risk of serious heart problems. What's more, the longer it ...
Daniel Smith CEO at Raisin Technology Europe and USA
I read an interesting post here yesterday (or was it the day before?) about "forcing banks to lend" and am curious to see if anyone has a similar feeling to myself. As we all know, any well run bank will (or should) study the risk before lending, look at the return, and then take a decision. With the current "crisis" many centra...
25 November 2008 /regulation /retail
Why is the the contrary view so devalued these days? In years gone past, savvy managers would ask people (the 'yes buts', or Devil's Advocates) to think about the downsides of any proposed course of action, not necessarily to stop an initiative in its tracks but to tease out the wrinkles, analyse them and improve the initiative before launching. ...
25 November 2008 /retail Transaction Banking
New buzz words in the street since the rescue of Citi in US, RBS in UK and UBS in Switzerland involve Darwinian processes, dinosaurs and other apocalyptic analogies. One may ask, are the world largest financial conglomerates the strongest pillars that will remain once the tidal wave sets off, or are they instead to big to adapt? Given the market c...
24 November 2008 /regulation
"In it's sixth Sepa progress report, the ECB welcomes the effort made so far, but stresses that work 'urgently remains to be done' to ensure the success of the Europe-wide project." You don't say? Is anyone surprised? Talk about stating the obvious... With banks being bailed out and IT budgets across the board slashed beyond recognition...
24 November 2008 /payments /retail EBAday
My mate Vince has a gig on Tue 25th at the Bull and Gate in London - he's had a fair bit of airplay on Radio 2 so should be a good crowd there. Funnily enough I used to be in a band with him years ago. We met at UEA around 1980. When in theory we were studying Biophysics or whatever it was we did, we were instead as often as not messing about in th...
24 November 2008 After hours
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