Mike Walker's Ramblings about Industry Architecture
Standardizing the Mobile Payments Platform
As you have probably seen from my recent blog entries there is a lot happening in the mobile space...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/13/2007
UPDATE: New Zealand uses Mobile Technology as One of their Largest Channels to Customers
A colleague of mine Rob Hawthorne, brought to my attention that the online channel and mobile...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/12/2007
How to Address Fraudulent Issues in the Banking Industry
The fraudulent issues in the banking industry undeniably important. It is increasingly important...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/10/2007
Banks are Holding Consumers Responsible for Online Fraud
I ran across an interesting article titled "Keeping your home computer protected from hackers is up...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 03/10/2007
Microsoft Financial Services ISV Banking and Capital Markets Partner Summit
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032327012&culture=en-US "Let’s Make...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2007
My Group is Hiring!
If you are an architect and if you want to work here at Microsoft my team the Architecture Strategy...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2007
Two More Banks Add Mobile Online Banking to Their Portfolios
Wachovia and HSBC both have plans to build and deploy Mobile Banking Applications. HSBC's MONILINK...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2007
Mobile Applications in Banking
With the new Mobile OS release I've been talking a lot about mobile technologies recently. I thought...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2007
Windows Mobile 6 Review
So I have been using WM 6 for about two weeks now. I have to say that I LOVE it! I have both good...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/28/2007
Traveling With Windows Mobile 6 and Live Search GPS
Yes, that is a mound of snow taller than me! I was a brave soul this past weekend traveling through...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/27/2007
Live Search Mobile Edition Beta Released
This is a client applicaiton and not a web application which makes it much more user friendly. Check...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/21/2007
MIX 2007
Only 69 days left till Mix 2007. There are some really cool things happening this year. Check it...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/20/2007
Discover working on Mobile Payments
Discover Financial Services, the fourth-largest credit-card organization in the United States, has...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/19/2007
Limitations in the InfoPath Web Forms Deployment
Pashamn has started to compile a list of limitations in the InfoPath Web Forms deployment. Here is a...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/18/2007
Building Custom Search WebParts with Integrated SAP NetWeaver Portal Search for MOSS 2007
Great article on helloitsliam's...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/18/2007
MOSS 2007 Best Practices Analyzer
Are you wondering if you are following best practices when developing your MOSS based applications?...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/18/2007
Personalized Newspaper
myFeedz is an interesting Web 2.0 feed reader that personalizes content that is relavent to your...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/18/2007
Getting Windows Mobile 6 Installed Today!
Today I am getting my phone upgraded from Windows Mobile 5 to Mobile 6. I am pretty excited about...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/13/2007
Funny Bank Commercial
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/12/2007
ACORD Unified Messaging Update
As you seen from earlier posts regarding ACORD they are going through the process of redefining...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/12/2007
My Media Center Setup
Some folks on my team were talking about Media Center and I had to chime in. I love my digital media...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/10/2007
New Blog Design
Happy to report I threw out the default CS theme and created my own!
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/08/2007
Microsoft Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Update
I get the ESB question a lot here lately when I talk to financial services organizations....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/08/2007
RSA Conference 2007 Keynote
In the keynote today at the RSA Conference 2007, the technology-security industry’s annual...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/08/2007
Gates on Enabling Secure Anywhere Access in a Connected World
During the last decade, digital technology has changed the world in profound and exciting ways....
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/06/2007
Software Factories for Financial Services
Recently a colleage asked me if Microsoft had any reusable patterns or factories for the financial...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 02/02/2007
My Insurance Article on the MSDN Home Page!
https://msdn.microsoft.com Welcome to MikeS Developer Network Thanks Atanu for the clever snip-it :)
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/31/2007
What happened to Windows 386?
Given that we are launching Vista this week I thought it would be nice to take a look back at the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/31/2007
Microsoft's Support of Financial Services Standards
There seems to be a bit of confusion in the financial services community about Microsoft's...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/31/2007
Visual Voicemail
I just ran across Callwave a great way to get Visual Voice Mail! It great for me because I do not...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/29/2007
Having Problems with Vista and Camtasia?
I was working with Camtasia and I have been getting all sorts of errors from audio to video and even...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/29/2007
MOSS Resources
An Overview of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007The new version of SharePoint is poised to...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/26/2007
Role Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites
Building on the successful concept of Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services, we are...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/26/2007
I will be speaking at the 5th Annual Financial Services Developer Conference
ABSTRACT Office 2007 the next business platform for Financial Services This session will cover the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/23/2007
Free .Net 2.0 Loan Origination System / POS system
A free Loan Origination System (LOS)! I was amazed to see this out there. LoanAce is more like a POS...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/23/2007
Visa has a Mobile Payments Solution
Visa, the world's biggest credit card payment system, has launched a global system to turn mobile...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/22/2007
Sick, Sick, Sick
Well my keynote at NAPFA did not go as planned. I spent all day in bed with food poisoning. I must...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/20/2007
Collabortation in Banking Article
Recently released on the Bank Systems and Technology site is a whitepaper on collaboration with the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/19/2007
Choosing a Loan Message Exchange Standard for Banking
One of the items I am working on wrapping up in the next few months is the Loan Organization...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/17/2007
Now Online: Building Composite Applications Book
I've been getting a lot of e-mail on when the Composite / OBA Applications Book would be available...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/10/2007
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Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/06/2007
New Windows Live for TV
Windows Live for TV is an early beta 3D browser application that makes it easy to connect to your...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 01/03/2007
US Secret Service calls ATM System Unsafe
I found this interesting article on Bob Sullivan's blog. It talks about the vulnerabilities of the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/29/2006
Announcing Release of Microsoft CRM Solution Accelerator for Siebel
As a part of Microsoft Dynamics CRM’s expanding integration story, the MS Dynamics folks have...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/29/2006
Royal Podcast
Wow podcasting has really taken off. Not that I am surprised with the emergence of Zune and iPod. It...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/28/2006
Vista Flaw a minimal threat
When I first heard this I was very concerned. However with the latest investigation and with the...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/28/2006
LAKS Introduces Watch to Double as a Payment Device Using MasterCard PayPass
Austrian watchmaker LAKS, which has often caused a sensation in the past with its innovative...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/28/2006
MasterCard PayPass on Ohio Turnpike
While riding around the roads, paying for tolls have always either been cash or a windshield mounted...
Author: MSDN Archive Date: 12/28/2006