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Don't get me wrong, I'm not against a little contextual advertising in search results. Someone has to pay the piper, if sites aren't going to pay to be indexed. With both Microsoft and Google (those s...
An obituary of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs - who is still alive - hit the Internet last week after someone at Bloomberg hit the wrong button and acccidentally released it to subscribers. It is no...
We can barely go a week without reading about the gender pay gap and how women are paid less. Every time we see the words “women” and “pay” together we hope for an upbeat and positive story, but they ...
The subject of optical reading via Mobile Phones as an alternative or complimentary application to RFID chips and readers is practically never raised - the industry is in fact missing a hugely importa...
They say a picture is worth a thousand words - personally I think it depends on the photographer and the writer - but that's just me. If you're a full community member you can now upload a photo to ap...
The investment community is beginning to question its habitual praise and compliments, not to mention the astronomical fees, showered upon hedge funds for providing alpha – returns generated not throu...
Enthusiasm for the post holiday reading pile is normally considerably less than the gleeful anticipation of packing those paperbacks for reading in sunnier climes, as I am sure you will agree..... A p...
So, the word is out. Now that many of the old spooks-only tricks to eavesdrop on unsuspecting banks, governments and consumers are out of the bag it might be time to have a moment of panic. The border...
Every time recession hits market we start seeing so many people loosing jobs. This happens across business domains. Every single person; from a clerk to the CEO, everyone know that such rough phase is...
If you want to see the real-world impact of interchange regulations, the best place to look is obviously Australia. This is a country where the most sweeping changes to the interchange model have take...
Recently new exploits which target Microsoft browsers have wreaked havoc on more than one company including at least one of the big6 accounting firms. Companies have been forced to virtually shut down...
For months I have posted a question on my blog: Has there ever been a documented example of identity theft committed as the result of lost backup tapes? So far, no one has shown me an example. As we ...