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- Fidor Bank: a glimpse to the future?
- While at the SOMESSO event last week I filmed Matthias Kroner, CEO of Fidor Bank. In this 9 min 43 sec video, Matthias explains the difference between the classical bank and the new form of community based bank. Fidor is the first bank...
- Tags: Bank, Germany, Fidor, Banking, Financial Services, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- UK caves to Hollywood, orders net cut-off for 'hardcore' downloaders
- In June, the U.K.'s Digital Britain report rejected the Draconian demands of Hollywood to cut off "hardcore" downloaders from the Internet. Now the British government has changed its tune: Stephen Timms, the minister for Digital Britain, said that proposals previously considered by the Government to...
- Tags: Watson Co., Mandelson, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Banesco Improves IT Administration and Systems Availability With Customer Service Support
- Banesco wanted to maximize availability and performance of critical banking services, such as ATM transactions, trust accounts, insurance, and fraud prevention and provide a proactive, preventative focus for database maintenance to meet the institution's demands and standards for high-quality service. The challenge was to provide expert, personalized support to ensure...
- Tags: Availability, Customer Service, IT Administration, Oracle Corp., Information Technology, Banesco, Banking, ATM, Financial Services, Networking
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- ICANN terminates EstDomains, Directi takes over 280k domains
- Following ICANN's notice of termination sent to cybercrime-friendly domain registrar EstDomains in October, on the 24th of November the termination became a reality and EstDomains is no more. Despite the public concerns of who will take the 280,000 domains, and that includes the cybercrime facilitating ones, Directi's ResellerClub is new...
- Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Domain, EstDomains, Directi, Security Community, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon Valley
- It feels as if our economic version of Hurricane Katrina is building up energy, just off the coast of Silicon Valley. There is a definite feeling of something huge and nasty lurking just over the horizon. It's an ominous feeling highlighted by the fact that we...
- Tags: Capital Efficiency, Chip, Corporate Communications, Financial, Financial Crisis, Hardware, Internet, Marketing, Public Relations, Recession, Semiconductors, Sequoia RIP Powerpoint Presentation, Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, VC, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit
- Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hitPC vs MacHmmmm... I wonder how this might affect the feud between Apple and Microshaft. As the economy lurches towards a cliff, many people are going to balk at shelling out $3,000 for a new MacBook Pro. On the other hand, would it...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Investment, potential technology, meltdown, iKe, tax
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- No security software, no E-banking fraud claims for you
- No security software, no E-banking fraud claims for youNote from your insurance company..."Thank you for purchasing your auto insurance from Dewie, Cheatum & Howe.Please refer to stipulation #137 in you policy which clearly indicates your coverage is not applicable if you ever actually start your car and drive it.:About the...
- Tags: Banking, UNIX, Operating systems, Insurance, OPEN SOURCE, Spyware, adware & malware, Linux, e-banking fraud, security software, electronic banking, security, Linux User
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- Transformed Customer Service for Leading Scottish Financial Institution
- As Scotland's largest building society, Dunfermline Building Society wanted to improve the flexibility of its customer service. They wanted more efficient, flexible technology, particularly for their telephone banking operation, Dunfermline Direct. The idea was to provide more innovative interaction between their customers and the business. The Society deployed Nortel for...
- Tags: Customer Service, Financial, Nortel Networks Corp., Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-04-22
- How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring
- Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitute scandal is all the big news here in New York, but the lesser known tale is how an information system--the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network--played a role in his downfall. On the surface, Spitzer's downfall is a New York...
- Tags: Bank, Information System, Transaction, Financial, FBI, Data, Institution, Internal Revenue Service, Technology, Eliot Spitzer, Wall Street, FinCEN, CTR, Federal Government, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Firm gets U.S. nod for quick passenger data checks
- Firm gets U.S. nod for quick passenger data checksQuick Passenger Data ChecksHas anyone ever heard of fake ids -- or this is a concept I just thought of? I understand what they are trying to do, but it should have been taken care of BEFORE getting on the plane....
- Tags: Vertical industries, Islamic, extremism, Islamic extremism, passenger data check, quick passenger data check, anti-American, government
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Judge orders WikiLeaks offline, then backs off
- The WikiLeaks.org site is offline today, following a series of orders from a US District Court in San Francisco. WikiLeaks had posted numerous documents "allegedly reveal secret Julius Baer trust structures used for asset hiding, money laundering and tax evasion." (WikiLeaks press release, Feb. 18, 2008.)) JB...
- Tags: Order, WikiLeaks, WikiLeaks.org Site, Taxes, Free Trade, Domain Names, Financial Planning, Finance, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- You know what? Software's not sexy. Get used to it.
- I see Robert Scoble has kicked up a storm over the weekend by wondering why the vast majority of people are more interested in Web widgets than enterprise software (see Techmeme discussion and Michael Krigsman's post with a list of responses from fellow Enterprise Irregulars). The scale of the storm...
- Tags: Software, Web, Middleware, Fact, Geek, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Management, Marketing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Microsoft extends Windows XP's stay
- Microsoft extends Windows XP's stayA certain element - like every business and govenment operationWell this is good news. Nonetheless the model that should be followed is the one followed with Microsoft's - Yes Microsoft's OS/2 Windows product. That product went to IBM, one of Microsoft's partners and IBM then guaranteed...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, stay
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Antitrust is a scurvy dog
- Antitrust is a scurvy dogyes, there are lots of other balant monopolies around, butthat does not mean that M$ should get a pass!The worst are probably the 'natural monopolies' and for me, the most expensive are the 'hubs' created by airllines on most airports.The difference is the fact the the...
- Tags: Corporate law, Anti-trust, Toyota Motor Corp., Microsoft Corp., antitrust
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- A checkpoint on Web 2.0 in the enterprise
- For well over a year now we've seen reports and announcements from a major industry analyst firms and others tracking the movement of Web 2.0 ideas into the enterprise. Gartner, Forrester, McKinsey, and many others have all weighed in on the trends or made recommendations, sometimes cautious and sometimes...
- Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Complexity, Product, Tagging, Business, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Syndication, User Experience, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- Google now expires cookies after 2 years, not 31
- Google now expires cookies after 2 years, not 31Google is evil.I don't allow cookies for the Google site.Especially if you sign up for gmail and sign in to your account. Then they can tie your searches together with your email from any PC you log into and search from. Its...
- Tags: cookie, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-16
- SAP Transaction Banking: Measurements of IBM System z DB Server Using DB2 V9.1 for z/OS
- Bank posting and balancing, often called core banking, are crucial to all commercial banks. Historically, it was one of the first parts of a banking operation to be automated with computers. Not only is it crucial to the bank's business, but it generally has the highest processing volumes and resource...
- Tags: Bank, SAP AG, IBM z/OS, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Banking, Financial Services
- White papers 2007-06-05
- GIS Based Enterprise Solutions with WebSphere Server and ArcGIS Server
- Geographic Information Systems GIS play a role in the process of solving critical business problems in industries such as government, utilities, retail, banking, insurance, oil and gas, transportation, and health. Gathering and summarizing information about the geographic location and the movement of core business elements is essential to the operation...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere Portal Server, IBM WebSphere, Server, IBM Corp., GIS, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-02-21
- The moleculator gets a keypad lock
- For your information, a moleculator is simply a molecular scale calculator, or a molecular system which can perform logic and arithmetic operations. Now, LiveScience reports in a brief article that chemists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have developed a molecule-size keypad lock. This lock is based on...
- Tags: Defense &, Security, Science &, Nature, keypad, lock
- Blog posts 2006-12-31
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