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Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 17/02/2009 | 1914 views

While waiting at Kennington station this morning (imagine my usual rant here about how crap the Northern Line is these days) I had time to look at the free newspaper. In fact I had time to read War and Peace. Or write it. There was a full page ad for the iPhone - describing a few popular apps available to download. Well - I thought I'd share the o... Group: After hours

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 13/02/2009 | 1842 views

Microsoft to open stores - offers 250,000 dollar bounty

Had to check the date - nope - not April 1st. It seems the good folk from Redmond are going to open Microsoft-branded stores to create a "deeper engagement" with consumers and they've recruited David Porter as corporate vice president, who has previously worked at Dreamworks and Wal-Mart. This raises all sorts of interesting questions. Such as - w...

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 12/02/2009 | 1754 views

Shiney Apple people...

I stumbled across this video today which I think perfectly encapsulates the Apple philosophy. Nice to see cutting edge design taken beyond even the iPhone. Now if you'll excuse me I have to pop to the Apple store to stare lovingly at the products while I queue for the genius bar..... At least I don't have to worry about viruses.... Group: Video extravaganza

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 04/02/2009 | 1889 views

Introducing a new member

I'd like to welcome Dirk Kinvig to the community. Dirk started yesterday on the Finextra web team as senior developer and will be rolling out all manner of exciting new developments to the site over the coming months. As usual, any suggestions for site improvements, drop us a line at contact@finextra.com Group: Finextra site news

Peter Roberts - UCL - London | 02/02/2009 | 1331 views | 1 comment

On the resilience of modern infrastructure in the UK

Yes it's snowed. And yes no buses or trains were running this morning as London ground to a halt prompting the usual complaints about how unprepared we are. I can work from anywhere so I wasn't particularly bothered, but it has been interesting today listening to different wild estimates for how much this has "cost the economy". The main thing I no...