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Have you looked at all the things going on in the market in the September-November period? TARGET 2 and MiFID are just a couple of the minor road-bumps. On top of those, different service providers ...
I explained a couple of weeks ago the circumstances under which I temporarily live in a rented house. It’s rather smaller than the former family home, so we have some stuff stored in a warehouse nearb...
Billed as the official place for all things PayPal, the online payments pioneer has opened a corporate blog with the following mission statement: "We created The PayPal Blog as a forum for PayPa...
Galaxiki is a complete virtual galaxy - maintained by its occupants - who are all presumably bored office workers, students or kids who should be doing something MORE USEFUL WITH THEIR VALUABLE TIME....
Interesting to watch the increasing trend in the security industry of thinking more about insider threats. Is this because companies are feeling more on top of the external hackers and viruses, or a g...
Choosing a new name for a business venture is fraught with pratfalls. How will it translate in multiple languages? Will it offend anybody? What about the domain name rights? All the same, you have to...
Normally it's not good form to take potshots at the mistakes of fellow media organisations. But today's newsletter from press release aggregator Bob's Guide contains a particularly amusing piece: ...
It must be purgatory working at Linden Labs. Citizens of Second Life seem hell bent on replicating every problem of the real world. Setting aside the sex pests and the terrorists, no sooner had the au...
From the Sydney Morning Herald: 'The biggest bank in the virtual world of Second Life has closed its doors after a run on its deposits, putting at risk hundred of thousands of real dollars of savings...
In front-office operations, most people would probably think that speed and efficiency go together. They work with high-speed automated trading, low-latency computing and networks – maximum efficienc...
As discussed last year, the inevitable has occurred. A couple of questions ; a) can MitM attacks successfull against token based two factor authentication b) how will software based authentication u
Hedge funds and Wall Street firms are increasingly turning to meterologists to predict the impact that weather conditions willl have on stocks. But rather than using public meteorologists offices bank...