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Archive for: December, 2008

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 17/12/2008 | 2451 views

I've noticed my journey into work appears to be taking longer on the Northern Line these days with a deal of waiting around at Kennington. So - plenty of time to read the Metro - the free paper - which displays its Daily Mail leanings quite often. Today I spotted the story about Goldman Sachs paying out HUGE bonuses. The US-based firm lost £... Tags: Retail banking

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 15/12/2008 | 989 views

Microsoft release iPhone app

Seadragon is some nifty image manipulation stuff from the talented boffins at Microsoft Live Labs. It allows you to zoom in on images - and keep going. You have to try it to get it - but it's impressive. And now it's available on the iPhone - as yet the only phone with the graphics oomph and interface to support it. More here. You could use it to...

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 11/12/2008 | 1576 views

Need a new PC? Make do and mend.

A couple of weeks ago a friend called me, worried that after clicking on a link in an email seemingly via Facebook from a friend she knew, "some virus thing came up" and the PC was now really slow. I took a look, expecting the worst. AVG was installed and had half a dozen suspects in the virus vault, but there was no other evidence of infection. ...

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 08/12/2008 | 1735 views

New on Finextra - personal blog RSS feeds

As requested by the community, we're now providing an individual RSS feed for every Finextra community member. All you need do is post a blog item and you'll see an RSS logo appears on your postings. No effort required! Group: Finextra site news

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 03/12/2008 | 1291 views | 1 comment

Festive online gift ideas

Apparently online sales are still doing quite well, despite the credit crunch. Anyway, rather than leave it to the last minute I thought I'd start my seasonal present research early this year while pretending to be working on Finextra implementing an RSS feed. Having ruled out a flying car as too pricey, I always think - if in doubt - get 'em a wh... Group: Whatever...