Technology

The rumblings of the wikileaks revolution continue, as reports of Visa, MasterCard and PayPal have outages around the world are hitting the wire all day today. Rather than writing long entries here on the blog, I’ll summarise all of this when the events that are transpiring reach a conclusion. For those who haven’t caught the…

Some of us were surprised by the actions of American firms such as MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Amazon, in trying to close down wikileaks due to their leakage of cables from American embassies. Bearing in mind that over two million American workers have access to the database that held these cables, they weren’t exactly that…

I just noticed that iPad 2 is planned for release on the same day as Blackberry release their Playbook tablet in April 2011.  This will follow the iPhone 5 release in January 2011. But what comes after this?   What will Apple and Android products look like in 2014? Well, here's a demonstration of the…

I’m a little bit mature these days … some of you might even say old … but you realise you’re getting on when something looks like an antique and you realise that, when you first saw it, you thought it was the future. In my case, this would be the first mainframe I programmed. Way…

 We've talked a lot about how banks are behind the mark when it comes to social media. As regularly lamented on the Finanser, the lack of any blogging from any major high street bank in the UK is a shame. And most banks use Facebook and Twitter just for PR and marketing purposes. There's hardly…

A children's guide to High Frequency Trading, co-location and proximity hosting (possibly NSFW) …  

So to the really interesting question: if the industry is a polluting, festering, rotten and foul mess, should we try to shut it down? The reason I ask this is that this is the question that came up as I was writing yesterday's blog, debating the similarities between the banking and oil industries. If BP and…

I bet Venessa didn’t realise what she had started when she had her rant the other day, but I’m enjoying the thought process started by Venessa’s reactions to SIBOS, my reactions back and the reactions of the community reading these entries in their commentary and thoughts. In fact the commentary is great, and I appreciate…

So yesterday was an outsourcing day. Or rather it was a virtualisation and cloud computing day. Or isn’t that the same thing? Funnily enough, it was at a conference focused upon government issues in technology and information security, with lots of discussions about identity, secure email, information storage and data security best practices. On the…

You may think this blog title sounds familiar . It should be as it combines two key themes from the 2000s: the Death of Distance and the Digital Divide. One argues that technology has connected us all globally and overcomes distance which changes business models; the other argues that there are those who get digital…