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The latest upgrade to the Skype internet telephony system is now available for download in beta format. Significant new features include the ability to incorporate a video snapshot and to send and rec...
Chicago-based Mintel, a global supplier of consumer, product and media intelligence, report a new study that suggests younger consumers are shunning online banking. Conveniently later in the press re...
Private equity has grown fat on critiquing the operation of public companies. The Blackstone IPO offers a rare opportunity to turn the tables. As part of its filing with the SEC, Blackstone issued a...
On the BBC World Service yesterday, and today on Silicon.com there comes a new threat to our employment chances - the Blog and other social sites. Apparently HR teams are being encouraged to use the I...
Where's the smart money going on the likely outcome of the ongoing tug-of-war for the Chicago Board of Trade (Cbot)? Dublin-based person-to-person trading mart Intrade has listed 4 new markets on the...
After unsuccessfully dabbling with the mobile channel at the turn of the decade, US banks now appear ready to make a serious play for real-estate space on the consumer cell phone. Bank of America, w...
Here’s a story straight out of the steam age of information security. UK high street bank Halifax has been forced to apologise to 13,000 mortgage customers after losing a computer print out containing...
Interesting blog on the BBC site about Bob Diamond's hefty 22 million earnings for the last year, or rather the comments on the blog are interesting. He's head of Barclays investment banking service...
A cane toad the size of a small dog has been found down under. Nicknamed Toadzilla, the BBC reports that the feisty amphibian weighs in at a tad under a kilo and is the largest ever found in Australi...
This story from The Register of a driver who plunged her Mercedes worth knocking on a hundred grand into a river caught my eye. The driver ignored signs warning the track was unsuitable for motor veh...
I blogged Monday about a curious report in the Sunday Times that identified the UK’s Link ATM network as the frontrunner to buy Lloyds TSB Registrars, the share registration arm of the UK bank. Llo...
I have some fun over the past year with my Bank (nameless at this point for various reasons) discussing with them SEPA and my needs as a customer. My first problem came when I wanted to pay for my at