loan in comment and analysis
Five reasons I don't miss my 3G iPhone
Comment About a month ago I got an email from Apple informing me a loan iPhone 3G was about to be mine for a whole seven days. Not because I'm terribly forgetful - or awash with loan phones (I wish). I had... [10 Sep 2008]
Ken Harvey
CIO Profile He started his career in data processing for a regional savings and loan company and has held a number of positions in technology and marketing at several major banking and consulting organisations. In 2004 Ken Harvey... [06 Jun 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: What I learnt in Barcelona
Comment It belongs to Vodafone and I'm just trying it out on loan. While working at this year's 3GSM tradeshow, Jo Best got a lesson in what every business traveller knows - getting online via wi-fi or 3G leaves much to be desired. [23 Feb 2007]
BPO in China - beyond the cities you know
Comment One example: CompuPacific, which processes car loan requests for a company in New York. The Silk Road once linked traders from the Roman Empire to the imperial court of China in Xi'an (pronounced Shian). [30 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.03.06
Round-Up Among those contributors was Capita boss Rod Aldridge - until this week executive chairman at the services giant - who came up with a commercial loan of £1m. The back and forth, the excitement of cut and thrust rallies... [24 Mar 2006]
Leader: Ringing up a profit with mobile phone banking
Leader Or a phone that would let you text money to someone who needs a quick loan. Other than carting your own ATM around on a forklift, it's pretty hard to get real mobile access to your money at the moment. [13 Dec 2005]
Devil's Advocate: IT, culture and change
Comment So the person wanting a loan is recommended to buy protection insurance, by someone who may well know that for every £10 paid in premiums, a mere £1.33 is actually paid out. Some basic assumptions about the ways we... [13 Apr 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Muddled thinking on education
Comment Repaying a massive student loan is, after all, only another form of taxation, but rather less efficient than income tax. Confused? Read on. Our society struggles to know what it aims to achieve, and nowhere is this... [24 Feb 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Frog kissing, relationship banking and the decline of TVs and papers
Comment The face of relationship banking has changed over the last decade or so as much has happened: internet revolution, introduction of the euro, greater access to international funds, shrinkage in the international corporate... [01 Feb 2004]
Leader: PC giveaway to win over tech have-nots
Leader So when it comes to turning Blighty into a nation of web-surfing, PC-owning, computer literate hardcore techies, the government looked no further than the Swedes for inspiration, choosing to follow in the footsteps of the Scandinavians... [19 Jan 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Exponential growth - so misunderstood
Comment Surprisingly, when I move on to explain that an exponential function is exactly like compound interest (what you pay on a loan or overdraft) I find that the vast majority still don't understand. The economist Adam Smith... [08 Aug 2002]
Passwords: Proof that all humans are dull
Comment And you shouldn't loan them out to strangers. It's official - most of us are really quite dull and unimaginative when it comes to passwords. Nicknames, pop stars, football teams - and that's about has far as it goes. [27 May 2002]
What if... you needed an ROI case for everything?
Comment Try annualising the cost of capital - for example interest on a car loan - depreciation, servicing costs, insurance, fuel and parking and work out how many bus, train and cab rides you could get for the same money. [10 May 2002]
The rain in Wales, falls mainly on the servers
Comment Paul applied for a car loan from Nationwide using its lovely website. So said Tory chief whip David Davies last week, explaining that heavy rainfall keeps crashing the Welsh National Assembly's IT system in that... [15 Nov 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Pricey Blackberry, Vodafone's Japanese adventure and Consignia
Comment Elsewhere in the Telecomm sector BT Wireless (soon to be mmO2) is expected to confirm a £3.5bn loan to build 3G networks, the cost of which is to be shared with Deutsche Telekom amongst others. Tis the season of ripening... [24 Sep 2001]
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