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So I read today that a guy, a known hacker in fact, has been charged in the US with rifling 130 million card details from various agencies and stores and he is about to go to jail for a long time. St...
I occasionally make predictions. It is sometimes unpopular. While some foresaw the credit crunch, few foresaw the ancillary effects. I did. I see something much darker, or brighter depending on your p...
All of a sudden, now that the economies of many countries, not to mention the banking industry, is in tatters, we have dozens of articles and blogs all bemoaning the state of risk management and what ...
The EC drive to reduce administrative costs by 25% in SMEs by 2012 is surely worth all support - especially as SMEs represent 63% of turnover. But it is not possible to achieve this goal without movin...
I have observed a phenomenon over last few years. The hypothesis needs to be further validated. 1. If you are investing in companies that are people intensive like:- financial institutions, IT compani...
Everyone seems to be in the Clouds these days. Cloud Computing is certainly something we hear about more and more. The IT industry races full steam ahead into the great shapeless nebula that promises ...
Have you noticed how hard it is to stop doing email when you’re on holiday? Really noticed? I have a colleague who now has to time herself – she tries to only allow herself to look at her BlackBerry a...
Not a surprise at all since Caxton FX dropped the atm rates on the Caxton FX prepaid card to zero as well last month and we had forseen that this would have happened with other FX providers too. I ca...
Organisations in the financial services sector are finally realising the potential of SMS technology to improve their customer service offering, enabling access to real-time information and to guard a...
Hackers hacked hackers at the annual Defcon conference in Las Vegas this past weekend. Defcon is a conference for hackers of all breeds. There are good guys, bad guys, those who are somewhere in betwe...
Interesting paper by Tim O'Reilly and John Batelle titled web squared. Starts out by describing how the Web 2.0 "network as a platform" enables applications that get better the more people...
I came across a web page yesterday that I had to share. Someone with 2 weeks left on their 6 month probabtionary period at work updated their face book status and forgot that they'd added their boss a...