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Dean Procter - Transinteract - Sydney | 29/07/2009 | 2266 views

NAB has made the first move to remove overdraw fees from personal accounts. Fees as high as $33.00 are charged for overdrawn accounts. In what I think has been tantamount to theft, banks have been charging customers the overdraw fee for attempting to withdraw even $1 more than their balance. High balance enquiry fees especially at ATM's not owned b... Tags: Retail banking

Dean Procter - Transinteract - Sydney | 28/07/2009 | 1919 views

European Court of Justice Has Brain Failure

The EU court has erred, in fact had a complete brain snap. 11 word snippets or quotes are copyright infringement? (that's only 8) Hows this for copyright infringement? Once upon a time in a land far far away there.... Want to make some money? Simply (copy)write a book with every possible combination of words in it and you're on the gravy train ...

Keith Appleyard - available for hire - Bromley | 28/07/2009 | 2733 views

118 800 mobile phone directory may stay offline permanently

I wrote back on 10th June http://www.finextra.com/community/Fullblog.aspx?id=2942 and 13th July about the new UK Mobile Phone Directory http://www.finextra.com/community/Fullblog.aspx?id=3057 Good news for Privacy advocates is that following a wave of negative publicity, after initially saying the service was operating within the rules, the Off... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation

Dean Procter - Transinteract - Sydney | 27/07/2009 | 1494 views | 1 comment

iPod Meets Electric Car - Disruptive Technolgy?

I had a thought while I was checking out the electric car offerings and can really see where electric cars might be disruptive to iPod users, perhaps downright dismembering. Maybe the solution is to build iPod sensors into electric vehicles so they can hook into some sort of collision avoidance system. The probability of an iPod wearer stepping int...

Dean Procter - Transinteract - Sydney | 26/07/2009 | 1665 views

Internet - Sites, Ads, Ad sites, clickfraud

I am confused. I can't help but wonder what is real, and what actually has a human behind it (in the normal sense, I know some human is behind everything). The internet started out as a sort of twitter thing. Then came websites. Websites were sometimes used to advertise or sell products. Someone got a bright idea to use ads to sell products from...