Today, AT&T announces a test of 2D barcodes for mobile at the point of sale (POS). This pilot will be watched with interest. If it works, couponing/loyalty applications on the phone will no longer need to wait for chipset or hardware development to interact...
This montage of bank TV ads chronicles the shift from old white men in ties, speaking directly to the camera, oozing old-world respectability in an effort to earn your trust - with a sprinkling of the old-west featuring the Wells Fargo stage coach - to ethereal,...
Loading up your Kindle or travel bag with summer reading? Business Week features a list of summer reading recommended by business professors. As you would expect, business books dominate - but there are a wide range of topics - and even a few novels. I can...
Last Friday, the Wolfram Alpha "computational knowledge engine" went live. Steven Wolfram is the driving force behind this incredibly ambitious venture. His previous accomplishments include publication of first scientific paper at age 15, a PhD in theoretical...
I've been trying to enjoy the little culture skirmish that surfaced last week as media watchdog Jon Stewart of the Comedy Central took comedian Jim Cramer of CNBC to task for failing to warn the public that the valuation of houses, equities, municipal bonds,...
[via WIRED magazine] 10 Best Uses for RFID tags: 6// Clubbers At Barcelona's Baja Beach Club, VIPs are injected with RFIDs linked to debit accounts, making wallets...
(via Freakonomics) The latest recession indicator: more people are searching Google for "coupons" than for "Britney Spears." And it's not that Britney is getting less...
This is good. Niall Ferguson on the Colbert Report (Stephen Colbert asks "Am I Money?") .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url('http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png') !important;}.cc_links...
Photo: SF Chronicle The SF Chronicle interviews Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf in today's paper. The Wells Fargo - Wachovia merger blog inspired rave reviews and sets the bar high for other financial institutions considering blogging The Finanser (Chris Skinner)...
The Economist has an interesting article on newborn babies' innate sense of numbers and ability to count. People are born with an innate sense of how many items there are in small collections. Experiments in which older children and adults are shown randomly...
