1205 Results from 2008
Retired Member
“It’s not easy being green.” When this tune started floating around my head for this post, I thought Kermit the Frog had first sung these words about twenty years ago. Imagine my surprise when I checked Wikipedia and found out the song is really almost forty years old. And what was once a frog’s simple lament about growing comfortable in his own...
24 November 2008 /wholesale
Matt White North America editor at Finextra
With tough times upon us, state and local governments in the US are looking to make a few quid by auctioning surplus goods online. Businessweek reports that everything from helicopters to armored personnel carriers to deep fat fryers are up for grabs on sites like eBay and specialist outfit GovDeals.com. The Spartanburg County, SC, Sheriff's Offic...
24 November 2008 Whatever...
There was a time when computer games were written by a single person - Manic Miner on the ZX Spectrum for example. Eccentric, inspired genius. Now they're all blockbusters with massive teams and budgets and quite often don't seem that much fun or inspired. Yes they're terribly realistic. Yawn. Well, enter Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler who got togethe...
24 November 2008 After hours
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
We now know that most EU-countries support Equal Treatment - of paper and e-invoices - from a VAT-auditing angle. This is great progress. Some may still need clarification - what does ET mean? In all essence it means that: Transport IS irrelevant. From this follows that auditing can treat all invoicing in the same way. Of course it makes common se...
24 November 2008
With the dire state of the economy forcing people to tighten their belts, it seems most Americans would rather forgo that pair of socks or pointless gadget this Christmas in favour of something they can actually make use of - a gift card. Research from the National Retail Federation suggests 55% of Americans will ask Santa for a gift card this year...
24 November 2008 /retail
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
Richmond, Virginia - Sunday 20:00 EST The storm outside sent wave after wave of heavy rain drops that banged on the large window, trickling down into the garden bushes below. Distant thunderclaps rolled, making the glass vibrate every other minute, not before the bright flashes of lightning lit Jack's study. Jack was browsing the Internet, severa...
24 November 2008 /security Online Banking
There are a couple of reasons why the rumoured reduction in VAT is more likely to fail than succeed. One is the fact that much of peoples' basic spending is not subject to VAT and the other is one of relative size. This change in 'price' highlights a problem that all large institutions face, and a converse benefit in some instances, in that the p...
24 November 2008 /retail Transaction Banking
While I would always encourage co-operation, it isn't always easy to come by and when it comes to designing and innovating I've generally found that the larger the committee, the slower and more convoluted the process can become. This NFC-SIM committee approach doesn't sound like innovation, and some might describe it as desperation. Difficulty in ...
23 November 2008 Whatever...
Adam Nybäck System Developer at Anyro
They still use cash to pay bills in the UK in 2008? And now cash for paying things on the internet? This is just too weird.
22 November 2008 /payments
Tax authorities took a cautious view towards e-invoicing in the first round. In some countries even cumbersome extra demands were put on this new practise and crossborder invoicing was made difficult and costly as regulation started to increasingly differ. Then there was a question. Why should not sending and receiving paper and e-invoicing be trea...
21 November 2008
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