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Back a while I predicted that the Tech sector would go through a 'readjustment'. I couldn't bring myself to state the obvious about the banks, you all knew anyway. I thought that MSoft, IBM and HP wou...
I spend a lot of time in Australia and of course I use the internet. I have always believed that the actions of internet users are their own and do not 'belong' to the Internet Provider. Sabiene Heind...
Reg Varney, a British Comedian famed for his role in On the Buses in the late 60s/early 70s, sadly died yesterday. Curiously he also has a footnote in fintec history. Slip your anoraks, on everyone......
Mobile manufactureres and gadget makers could learn a thing or two from Detroit. I doubt that 48% of new car buyers need help operating their new cars, yet that is the figure for gadgets. If the auto-...
I tend to simplify and generalise on a blog, I don't wish to take up to much of readers time. I'll attempt to simplify my view of the markets. It's a sea of money. Incentive. A medium for exchange. Re...
Australian resort owner Tony Fox has followed the time-honoured tradition of partying while Rome burns, with a month long all-nude and anything goes party at his White Cockatoo tropical resort in Que...
I have a few ideas about identity management. The mobile money laundering article begins with a premise about Brittany a 'personal entertainer' (my description), who uses electronic payments to coll...
It is a fair question. Most fraud is card based, law enforcement claims money from fraud goes to fund terrorism (and drug, etc). Customers have to wonder at the real price of the billions of dollars i...
The credit crunch hasn't quite hit the street fully if the retail sales trends over the last year are anything to go by. We were already seeing the warning signs of a sharp downturn in consumer spendi...
When I read this, my immediate thoughts (actually let's skip the first), were that if a scammer has called a victim and convinced them to go to an ATM and transfer money to the scammer's account, it i...
The New York Times reports that the FBI is investigating an extortion threat involving the personal and medical information of up to 50 million people. The actual extent of the breach is unknown howev...
A little follow up on knob-twiddling on those Treasurers machines. In countries where there are multiple levels of government, such as federal and state, we have the unfortunate scenario of too many ...