Talk of Many Things

Once upon a time, like most members of the intelligentsia, I used to have a largely negative opinion about politicians. Thanks to the regional manager of a leading engineering company…

India has done very well for itself as an IT services destination. In less than two decades, it has reached the #1 spot in the global IT services outsourcing league…

EBA Clearing has outlined plans to launch a pan-European electronic payments service for online shopping, enabling buyers and sellers to complete transactions through their e-banking portals. A couple of days…

In the three months since we'd written about QR codes, their usage by advertisers has seen strong traction. J P Morgan Chase's ad in the FORTUNE magazine and Bosch's billboard…

In the past, I've blogged about the friction involved in many Electronic Bill Presentment & Payment (EBPP) systems operated by banks in India and the UK. My recent experiences with…

There's no shortage of blogs, articles and books written by pundits offering advice to executives on how to nurture innovation within their companies. Take, for example, this recent post on Finextra.…

A few weeks ago, when I read that ISIS was ditching Discover and deciding to tie up with Visa and MasterCard, something didn't quite add up. After all, it was…

After trying and failing to locate a trusted plumber, electrician and handyman via yellow pages and other directory services, I recently came across GigPark. Its promise to leverage my social…

Although the website has a contemporary look-and-feel, I got a bit perplexed when I saw a page (http://www.bankwest.com.au/forms) full of forms to be downloaded and snail-mailed to the given address.…