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Paul Penrose

Any fool can be a money mule

The Netherlands Bankers Association have launched their own inimitable viral-style Web campaign to alert people to the dangers of easy-money mule recruitment tactics (hat-tip to Linkdump). Although ...

26 Sep 2008
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Paul Penrose

Cisco's giant phone

This is impressive technology. You can see it in action on this Cisco promo vid on You Tube. And no. I'm not on a retainer.

05 Sep 2008
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Paul Penrose

Wall Street got drunk

Words of wisdom from President George W Bush on the financial malaise gripping the world economy and the sub-prime mortgage crisis, captured surreptitiously on video at a private event and posted on ...

23 Jul 2008
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Paul Penrose

Cityboy: The musical

I fear the exploits of Cityboy at the Glastonbury music fest may have gone to the poor chap's head. The ex-DrKW analyst is back on YouTube promoting his catchy new single 'Cityboy'. All together now...

23 Jul 2008
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Paul Penrose

Cityboy goes Glasto

Cityboy, Beer and loathing in the Square Mile, is a fictionalised account of rampant egotism, greed, prostitution and drug-taking in the heart of London's financial centre. The lurid tome was penned b...

04 Jul 2008
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A Finextra Member

Vista video rocker shocker horror

If you can take horror movies, you may like to view this stomach churningly awful video. Apparently it was made to help Microsoft folk not take themselves so seriously all the time. Would it help th...

17 Apr 2008
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A Finextra Member

Bankers get hint of new Windows version

Following on from previous discussions of Vista on this site, interesting to see The Register reporting that Mr Gates said at a meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank on Friday that Windows 7...

08 Apr 2008
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Paul Penrose

Chew on this cubicle-dwellers

Is it an adventure theme park….a children’s nursery….a health spa? No, it's Google’s new European engineering HQ in Zurich. The 'office' space features meeting 'pods' in the style of Swiss chalets an...

14 Mar 2008
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A Finextra Member

iPhone suddenly gets more stuff for it....

The BBC have rolled out a beta version of their iPlayer for the iPhone. And it's stunning. Needs WiFi to work but the picture and sound quality are excellent. I'm just watching Panorama now. I mean -...

07 Mar 2008
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Paul Penrose

NatWest rides the offshore backlash

Picture the scene. Three UK banking personnel discuss where to locate their new call centre during a brainstorming exercise at a resort in Spain. While two of the bank staff bounce around ideas for va...

05 Mar 2008
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Paul Penrose

Finextra video extravaganza

Over the course of the past year the Finextra editorial team have been honing their new media skills with a series of face-to-face video interviews with high-profile participants in the fintech commu...

18 Feb 2008
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Paul Penrose

E-Trade bids for SuperBowl glory

In a desperate bid to restore its failing fortunes, online broker E*Trade has decided to splash out on two thirty-second advertisements to air during Super Bowl XLI, the coveted prime commercial spot ...

31 Jan 2008
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