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Sometimes little things can mean a very great deal indeed. For people who work in the world of standards – whether for data, IT or just a plug in the wall – little things can have a massive impact. ...
There was some good news this week with The UK Cards Association reporting fraud on UK credit and debit cards in 2010 was at its lowest level since 2000 – a 17% reduction on 2009 figures to £365.4 mil...
I am now asking friends and family to keep a spare CD or USB Flash Drive on which to keep a LIVE version of a linux distribution, why do i do this? Well there are a few good reasons even for the most ...
In my recent book I posited that I wasn't against branches and that rather than advocating the wholesale closure or departure from branch networks, that I was interested in seeing branch focus/form ad...
For as long as I have worked in financial services IT (and some time before), video has been trumpeted as the "next big thing" for retail financial services but has not taken off as predicte...
I love the story in today’s Telegraph explaining that the people of Mugardos in North West Spain are encouraging people to find and spend the defunct peseta in local shops. More than 60 shops on the G...
What do you do when you are picked up in a cab and the driver suspects your home will be vacant while you are gone? The Manchester Evening News reports “A BUNGLING burglar went to the same ATM more th...
Impossible to open a financial magazine or a blog without coming across an article related to “compliance”. It seems that the regulators have been particularly prolific these past few months. Up to a ...
With the dust settling on Reg. E, the regulation that requires U.S. banks and credit unions to get their customers to opt-in for overdraft protection, it looks like banks’ revenue will not fall all th...
In July of 2007 on a hot summer night a serial killer was arrested after he broke into a 15-year-old girl’s room in Chelmsford Massachusetts in the middle of the night and tried to rape her. The girl...
Cloning occurs when hackers scan the airwaves to obtain SIM card information, electronic serial numbers and mobile identification numbers, and then using that data on other phones. Cloning can happen ...
Did you know there is a setting on LinkedIn where they will email your entire contact list in your behalf to let everyone know about a new position you have taken with a company? I didnt. Until I got ...