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Bags and baggage
Business Technology’s US ‘blogger Keil Hubert is back in Europe this month. Today: getting the customer service run-around from the airline industry.
Random encounters
It’s easy to reach the wrong target when the entire world is interconnected. Keil Hubert suggests that we sometimes have a moral duty to respond to random strangers.
Tilting at windbags
Social media access gives normal people great power to sound off about problems. Keil Hubert suggests that this can backfire depending on how one defines a ‘problem’.
Craig Tillotson: Faster payments for everyone
Why millions of you support our move to faster payments for everyone
News: M-Pesa, Square Stand PoS system
M-Pesa: The new act of banking in Africa A system of mobile payments which helps some of the poorest people in the world is expanding to new countries.
News: M&S contactless payment, Facebook gift cards
Contactless payment is a hit in M&S stores Last month Marks and Spencer completed the roll-out of its Near Field Communications (NFC) payment system to 644 of its UK stores, and claims it is processing more than 230,000 contactless transactions every week.
#DigitalPayments: Heir to cash’s throne
Dave Baxter discovers more about digital payments – from chip and PIN to virtual currencies – and how they’ll develop in the future
Money at the sound of your voice
Dave Baxter on ways to access your money that could be more secure than passwords.
The Moneyless Man: Life without currency
Looking surprisingly well kept in some smart jeans and a jumper, Mark Boyle sniggers through a mouthful of food.
Keil Hubert: Sell me a digital wallet
We’re huge fans of the ‘Horrible Histories’ books, my family. Discovered them by accident on our first trip to London during a museum tour.
