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As the bidding process comes to an end tomorrow, ABN AMRO should be announcing soon after the successful bid by Royal Bank of Scotland, Fortis and Santander to acquire them.  I said that would make the last day of SIBOS interesting a while ago, and it’s tough luck for Barclays who kicked off the process…

It’s only Wednesday and yes, I’m outta here already.  Now, you may be wondering why Chris is dumping out of SIBOS before the big Party … not my choice my friends.  I’m off to Hong Kong for another party. Sitting at Logan airport having a final Sam Adams, I reflect on this year’s SIBOS and…

I wondered how I could get Baby Spice into the blog, and finally the moment came this morning. Arriving early to hear Mr. Negroponte I bring my suitcase with me, because I’m flying out of here tonight (and missing the party, oh no!) and the hotel wouldn’t let me leave it there. Going through security…

Some of you know that I’m not a big fan of my new Vista PC and it turns out neither is Nicholas Negroponte, although he actually had a stab at all tech firms in his keynote speech over breakfast.  Not a complete version of his speech, here’s the meat of what he had to say…

Some of you know that I’m not a big fan of my new Vista PC and it turns out neither is Nicholas Negroponte, although he actually had a stab at all tech firms in his keynote speech over breakfast.  Not a complete version of his speech, here’s the meat of what he had to say…

Some of you know that I’m not a big fan of my new Vista PC and it turns out neither is Nicholas Negroponte, although he actually had a stab at all tech firms in his keynote speech over breakfast.  Not a complete version of his speech, here’s the meat of what he had to say…

Some of you know that I’m not a big fan of my new Vista PC and it turns out neither is Nicholas Negroponte, although he actually had a stab at all tech firms in his keynote speech over breakfast.  Not a complete version of his speech, here’s the meat of what he had to say…

The conference I presented at last week in Barcelona focused upon future banking, and we had an audience of international bank managers from around the world.  The conference organiser gave me the opportunity to ask some questions of the audience.  You know the sort of thing, where you have those nice voting buttons arranged around the…

I’m confused. Microsoft is shipping a new version of BizTalk Server 2006 late in 2007? How retro. Microsoft did not change any features in the shipping release since the last beta, says Steve Martin, the company’s director of connected systems product management. "We hardened some of the functionality. The last major version of the product…

The WSJ got hold of a copy of Greenspan’s new book, due out Monday. Sounds a little mixed. The Ayn Rand devotee who played a partisan game in supporting skewed tax cuts by Bush, criticizes the Republicans for losing their one-time small government focus. One interesting point from being close to presidents – it seems…