Archive for October, 2010
Visa Debit rolls out in Canada
This is a project I’ve been working on and involved with in one capacity or another for a long time, including building the first business case and running the product development for CIBC as far back as 2005. More on the launch of Visa Debit in Canada: Toronto Star: CIBC rolls out Canada’s first Visa-branded [...]
Kodak update: when all else fails, sue the iceberg
A lovely visualization by Design language that’s been making rounds connects a couple dots from recent posts on this blog. Somewhat randomly, I had been musing both about how Kodak had the foresight to invent a “consumer” digital camera 35 frickin’ years ago and yet how did the whole camera industry completely miss the boat [...]

Thomas Purves
is a technology executive specializing digital payment systems, a futurist and sometimes entrepreneur living in the great city of 
