by dgw_HDSadmin | Feb 24, 2017 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, The Currency Cold Wars
Hello. It looks as if the number of currencies in the world is set to go up again. Across the English Channel, satisfaction with supra-national monetary arrangements is waning. [Marine le Pen] said she could see the EU setting up another currency like the ECU, or...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Jan 2, 2013 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
Demystifying Communications Risk: A guide to revenue risk management in the communications sector. Mark Johnson (Gower: 2012). In telecommunications, just as in banking and retailing and most other businesses as far as I can tell, fraud is an ever present cost of...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Aug 2, 2012 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
Barclays have started a new service whereby you can upload your own image and get a personalised debit card. This sounded like a really fun idea, so I thought I’d give it a try. Unfortunately, Barclays rejected my chosen image because it “has not met our...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Dec 4, 2011 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
My chum Tony Poulos interviewed an analyst from Ovum about mobile data pricing recently. I was listening to this, and it reminded me about a huge telecommunications conference that I attended a couple of months ago. There were hundreds of people and operators from all...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Aug 7, 2011 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
Yet more speed camera misery in our house. 50 in a 40 at 12.30pm on a deserted stretch of well-lit road near Guildford. But hurrah! A form arrives saying that as a means to rachet up middle-class motoring taxation a notch further, my good lady wife can opt to go to on...
by dgw_HDSadmin | Mar 15, 2011 | Archive, Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin, Will Robots Need Passports?
[Dave Birch] I see that Essex council has abandoned its plans to start its own bank to fund local businesses and the First Bank of Billericay, or whatever they were going to call it, will now never get off the drawing board. How this insane plan ever got to the...
