Archive for the ‘New technologies’ Category
Friday, August 27th, 2010
In an entertaining publicity stunt organised by Barclaycard, the UK's first ever cashless busker was unveiled yesterday in Soho Square, London. Accepting contactless cards only, busker Peter Buffery, strummed on his specially designed guitar, which was fully equipped with contactless technology at the neck so that listeners could make a ...
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
I know it's old [from 2008's Oracle OpenWorld event] but i've just been listening to Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison's rant about how fashion driven the tech industry is and how the definition of cloud computing keeps changing. If you want to brighten up your day have a listen and tell ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
As we enter the third month of the year and the novelty of a new decade, the teenies, begins to wear off I thought it might be nice to revisit some of the 2010 predictions for the year ahead that FST collected back in January. These predictions about the future ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
All the hoopla around the iPad launch and what it could do to revolutionise consumer behaviour and consequently how banks, insurers and others might seek to target them for marketing purposes, has got a little bit out of hand. Yes, Apple does have an enviable record for developing products that build ...
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
I've just returned from an interesting roundtable this morning at Experian's offices at 80 Victoria Street, London, where the issue of bank lending to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) was very much still on the agenda. Stephen Alambritish, from the Federation of Small Business (FSB) said that many of ...
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
I was watching a repeat of a great BBC TV show last week called Micro Men, which told the story of the rivalry between Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry of Sinclair and Acorn computing fame during the 1980s, and I couldn't help reflecting that from promising beginnings the British home ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
The advent of the web 2.0 technologies, such as twitter, social networking sites like Facebook, and other new forms of communication that utilise user-generated content, means that protecting your brand has never been more challenging. If a bank or insurer loses a disk containing people's personal details, or pays our ...
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