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A survey by internet security outfit Strongmail caught my attention this morning over breakfast. Around 60% of the surveyed marketing and data protection executives at 900 firms said they'd had a da...
Managing your boss in the right way can be the key to promotion or the key to your downfall. This includes what details you should give them and what information you are best keeping to yourself. To m...
Researchers in the Netherland have cracked and cloned an Oyster travel card, used across London for tube, bus and some overland rail travel. They gave themselves credit and enjoyed free rides on the ...
I can't believe it. Oooops! I sound like Victor Meldrew. I have just come off the phone to MBNA, having spoken to an articulate and not unpleasent girl from Liverpool, and I can't believe it. I can...
Prosecutors in the US are hauling in the first of hundreds of participants in the US mortgage and credit fiasco. It remains to be seen who will pay the price but the government has plenty of people in...
A single gas facility explosion has brought Australia's economic boom to a halt and many thousands of businesses face bankruptcy in the next 6 months. Despite numerous national infrastructure, terrori...
I'd just like to let the waiters and waitresses of the world know that we have thought of them with our mobile solution for transactions. Hospitality staff are all very important to both commerce and ...
Here's a handy thing for would-be hackers lacking programming skills - a handy utility that can take any executable file (designed for Trojans - but could be anything) and turn it into a self-propagat...
As you may know, when I'm not breaking Finextra I compose and release music to critical acclaim - or damning criticism - it varies. Anyway - it appears this sort of malarkey has been going on for long...
I did plan to get in early today but the Northern Line conspired against me. And then another distraction - a new version of Firefox. The much anticipated 3.0 - the difficult third album. Anyway - sin...
I digress and had to get back to my own blog and have posted a response to Jean-Philippe. We obviously look at things from different viewpoints, and you make a good point, yes, nothing is 'free', ho...
The Financial Times yesterday included a supplement on financial training which featured an article on a fintech degree offered by University College London (UCL). The university's MSc in Financial Co...