Scheudenfraude is an ugly word--in any language

Now I've spent 15 years writing about technology and data on Wall Street and the City. I've met many people who do (or did) take home a fat wad of cash and others who get by on much smaller wallets. B...

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This is supposed to make us love Vista

Vista has been discussed on this forum. And as someone who was cornered into buying a laptop with Vista Home Basic last year. 'groan'. This is what Microsoft is now showing in the US to make us love V...

TradeElect goes POP

I am surprised there has not been more comment on this, within the forum. The last LSE outage also happened on a busy trading day--the end of the UK tax year. Although it was pre-TradeElect. While the...

When's Bloomberg going to sell Bloomberg?

Rumour has it that now that there are a few extra empty desks in the City (and Wall Street) many of them are hosting very expensive, and idle, Bloomberg terminals. The scramble to consolidate and save...

It's a man's world...?

This is a funny story about about how women with long nails can't use an iPhone. Which is a bit strange, as an owner of an iPod Touch, I think they are a rather female friendly. But it got me thinki...

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Lost in Transit

Is anyone else a tiny bit suspicious about the recent 'Whoopes, we lost some customer data" annoucements? It is a case of something not happening very often so it is big news? Or is this the fina...

Operational Risk Management

Death by Blogging?

There is an article in the NY Times today called In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop . The article talks about the immense pressure bloggers (especially technology bloggers) face...

The E Trade Super Bowl Ad--what were they thinking?

Following on from Paul Penrose's earlier blog about the $5 million beleagured E Trade spent on their Super Bowl Ad, the WSJ today, shows just what that amount of money looks like. Really, a vomiting ...

ShockGen Continues

I am still of the opinion that there is something fishy going on with the 'lone trader' theory at SocGen. However, my mate Peter Guest at the FT has almost changed my mind with this take: (printed wi...

Markit to take over Boat--according to Reuters

If this Reuters news item turns out to be true, Markit has a very good chance of becoming the number three data vendor behind Reuters/Thomson and Bloomberg. In fact, Tom Glocer was alledged to have s...

Facebook, you almost had me

I guess this should be added under Whatever.... I know I have defended Facebook et all before. However, they sent me a disappointing email this morning. Being on the wrong side of middle 30 (ish) I ...