I ran across an interesting article today on the ITworld website.  The article, entitled In memoriam: the ISV can be found here. The world of business software continued its inexorable march toward Total Consolidation in 2007. If IBM was off the mark in 1943 when it (supposedly) predicted a world with only five computers, it [...]

Recently the CEO of IP Commerce, Chip Kahn, published an article in E-Commerce Times entitled "Simplifying E-Commerce with SOA for Payments."  The entirety of the article can be found here. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), I’d recommend the wikipedia article as it is a quality overview.  SOA is [...]

Aneace Haddad, whose blog I read regularly and enjoy immensely, has had a recent series of post on credit card surcharges: Credit card surcharges on the rise in Singapore Credit card surcharges in London In essence, there are signs posted at the register that dictate between a 2 to 3 percent increase in ticket price [...]