Stories by Stefan Hammond

What's the last legal document you signed?

Do you remember? A gym contract? A receipt for a toaster?

Gigabytes versus kilowatts

One of the unfortunate corollaries of Moore's Law is that as computing power grows, so do power requirements and heat dissipation.

Banks assess the currency of technology

Hong Kong's banks don't operate like HK's post offices, where clerks deal out coins and paper stamps in nineteenth-century fashion. Banks must leverage IT to serve an increasingly sophisticated public, while balancing security concerns and increasingly tight compliance issues.