As I sit in the hotel prior to heading over to meetings at the National Retail Federation “Big Show” (known on twitter as #NRF11), I’m following a somewhat standard pre-conference routine. The process is relatively simple and includes: A cup of coffee A music list set on random A view from a hotel window An [...]

One of the benefits of plane travel is the opportunity to sit in relative silence (except for the screaming child and angry passenger) and simply read. Every flight that I take I either print, or load onto kindle, hefty materials that are otherwise difficult to consume. It is for this reason, in large part, that [...]

As part of the Mobile Platform Wars Briefing Room that is currently being run on PYMNTS.com, I was asked to respond to 5 questions regarding mobile payments. The content below is a cross-post from that entry for those of you who may not be familiar with PYMNTS.com

I freely admit that I’m a technology junkie…much to the chagrin of my patient wife and to the detriment of our wallet. So, as I watched the Apple iPad announcement, I proclaimed the following: What is interesting about the product is the discussion that it has generated amongst payment folk. My thoughts/response are still only [...]

In a previous post, entitled Payments Innovation: a discussion of the future, I attempted to make the case that “innovation” (particularly) in the payments market is oft misunderstood…and, perhaps, over-complicated. In my daily reading, I happened across a research report published by Celent that ties to the key theme of that post. There is, I [...]