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Obviously an iPhone can never go wrong, so what to do with the box? Here's an idea - turn it into a camera like Scot Hampton does. His iHole is a nifty pinhole camera that takes 120 film. Marvellous....
Earlier this week, whilst catching up on news from America, I came across an article in the New York Times announcing, "The credit crisis is no longer just a subprime mortgage problem." No...
A few years back I started a series of conversations with the three leading Registrars in the UK about encouraging them to enter the data market. The idea was to consolidate all their data and put it ...
I guess it is time now for us to wash our hands and prepare to use our fingers for ID, put our eyeballs into readers, submit our faces for reading..... At long last, the ISO has released a standard f...
We have launched a new market data section on Finextra.com, which will provide market data and financial analysis across the different subsectors within the financial technology industry worldwide. Af...
"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity", so goes a wise crack. The way the world is going in 2008, it looks like Debt and Fraud are going to the two most co...
A nice article here from BusinessWeek on the techniques a new generation of personal finance web sites are using to build trust among their online audience. The article takes a snapshot look at Wesa...
This recent TowerGroup report makes some interesting predictions, and has sound reasons for picking its five suvivors in the global exchange land grab. On one hand I can see why they have picked Eurex...
If you are going to delay a major financial sector initiative then six months is probably the minimum delay that makes sense. Anything shorter does not give institutions time to react, and anything mu...
With internet spreading its net across the markets, financial products are being invented and developed by companies – read as independent innovators. The selling points for all such innovators mostly...
It comes as no big surprise to me that Monitise are making further losses. With a business model that charges customers for transactions that they can get for free from many other channels, 20p for a ...
When I worked for a terminal vendor a few years ago, I made a prediction that the market would quickly consolidate down to a few (probably 3) big players - and that they'd most likely be VeriFone, Hyp...