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Fascinating report in today’s Forbes around social networks being easy fodder for hackers and therefore criminals.  The firms at stake include everyone from Google through Facebook, and it is all due to the fact that the more open these communities become for developers to provide common applications, the more flawed they become to vulnerabilities.  Here’s…

As many know, I’m a great fan of science fiction and the future.  So I get an email today from Forbes where Arthur C. Clarke has given his vision of 2500 A.D.  It’s an interesting story, not a new one in some ways, about the biggest danger to the planet being an e-bomb.  An e-bomb…

  So this week I’m in Las Vegas, land of Elvis Presley impersonators.  Funnily enough, it’s a line I use in many presentations.  What line you ask?  Well, it kinda goes: "Hi, I’m Chris Skinner.  I’m not an analyst as analysts tend to talk in numbers.  By way of example, there are 39,000 Elvis Presley…

  So this week I’m in Las Vegas, land of Elvis Presley impersonators.  Funnily enough, it’s a line I use in many presentations.  What line you ask?  Well, it kinda goes: "Hi, I’m Chris Skinner.  I’m not an analyst as analysts tend to talk in numbers.  By way of example, there are 39,000 Elvis Presley…

  So this week I’m in Las Vegas, land of Elvis Presley impersonators.  Funnily enough, it’s a line I use in many presentations.  What line you ask?  Well, it kinda goes: "Hi, I’m Chris Skinner.  I’m not an analyst as analysts tend to talk in numbers.  By way of example, there are 39,000 Elvis Presley…

When I first saw Google Maps I thought at the time this would be a good thing for me and my kids to discuss the news, where everything was and what is going on where. What is happening now is to cut me out of the process – even my kids can now instantly see…

When I first saw Google Maps I thought at the time this would be a good thing for me and my kids to discuss the news, where everything was and what is going on where. What is happening now is to cut me out of the process – even my kids can now instantly see…

Another subject that regularly crops up in my blog is whether banks can be innovative when they are risk averse.  My contention is that banks never lead, they only follow.  As a result, they never innovate because they never create anything.  Now I know some banks do generate new ideas, but it is fairly true…