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So it's been 5 years since I was working with my dear friends at Cyota (since acquired by RSA Security) whereby we introduced the world's first anti-phishing takedown service. On reflection, I'm si...
Earlier this week, an IT employee was indicted for stealing the identities of 150 of his coworkers at Bank of New York Mellon, to the tune of 1.1 million bucks. He bilked almost $140,000 a year over ...
Most of us have seen how small enterprises can be innovative, fast and agile - when larger ones show up as lumbering giants - trying desparately to cure themselves with new "management" tool...
A Nordic study (PTS in Sweden) reveals that the mobile share of minutes in outgoing telephone calls in 2008 were the following: Finland 83% Norway 55 Denmark 54 Iceland ...
Others can't resist gambling, drinking, smoking... There are plenty of vices on earth. But I think gambling is the most vicious. Not necessarily the most dangerous for health, but definitely the most ...
IT is blindingly apparent how to compete in the big bad world of investment banking (stinking). I don't suppose I'll be getting too many investment offers but to tell you the truth their money stinks ...
A few years ago I was at a talk with Scott McNeally of Sun Microsystems just after the Oscars in the US. He remarked how wonderful the Oscars were "A whole industry gathers to award prizes - to t...
First Published 16th March 2009. Links proving point view updated since this date. Despite massive successive capital injections, big banks on government life support continue to be battered from pill...
Congress is still considering the Informed P2P User Act, a law that would supposedly make it safer to use peer-to-peer file sharing software, an effort that is similar to banning mosquitoes from sucki...
With a changing payments landscape, the very structure of banks seems to be a matter of great debate at the moment. On one side is the view of Governor of the Bank of England who believes that banks s...
I've been working in Finsbury Square and travelling around the City for four months now, and I've noticed something remarkable: nobody looks where they're going. When people walk along the pavement th...
In the old days bloodletting was considered to be a universal cure to diseases. Later when it was realised that it could have only negative effects it still continued for quite a while. Old habits die...