Gail Balfour

Articles by Gail Balfour

New year

Okay, now that I have your attention I

Aim for a market niche, advises Unisys

The world's first commercial bank opened in Italy in 1472, and for more than five centuries, not much had changed

All bets are off in the financial world

Thanks largely to the Internet and the changes it has recently helped to produce, banks no longer have to be made of bricks or stone, and currency isn

Competition not always an ugly word

I finally got to see the Hollywood movie Antitrust recently, while travelling by plane. As a rule, in-flight entertainment is usually pretty forgettable, and not very timely. This particular movie struck a chord though, given the events of Microsoft

The future is now

The drive home is taking longer than usual. Your car is complaining that its tires need more air, and, after a brief discussion with the road, decides on an alternate route with less potholes.

Confessions of a techno-slave

I think there must be something wrong with me. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to travel to Paris recently (Paris, France that is

New technologies overcome distance

Beaton Tulk likens the wireless movement in Canada to the digital equivalent of the trans-Canada railroad envisioned by John A. MacDonald more than 130 years ago.

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