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Are you aware of the new controversial 118800 mobile phone directory which launches next week? Do you want to learn how to opt out of it? Start up firm Connectivity (www.118800.co.uk) has bought lis
Many cities across the world are switching over to Pay by Phone Cashless Payment at Car Parks. The market leader is Verrus (www.verrus.com) who has contracts in over 100 cities across UK & North ...
We’ve all heard, and will no doubt continue to hear, lots of explanations from Members of Parliament accused of abusing the Expenses Regime, often blaming the ‘system’. Actually the Green Book 2009 ...
Merrick Bank has launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Savvis, accusing the vendor of erroneously telling it that CardSystems Solutions complied with Visa and MasterCard security regulations...
With the number of confirmed swine flu cases continuing to rise, a global benchmarking survey of financial institutions has revealed that, although over 70% of firms have a pandemic-specific business ...
The Financial Services Authority has called on UK Financial Services firms to assess their contingency plans in light of the recent outbreak of influenza https://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=199
It's only been 4 weeks since I wrote that 2 out of 3 UK Companies did not have a proven Business Continuity Plan https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2737 but no apologies for resurrect...
RyanAir has announced that from 1st October, there will be no Ryanair check-in desk at any of its airports, and everyone must check-in online and print off their boarding pass. On the one hand RyanAir...
The other week I was participating in a Computer Weekly / British Telecom workshop regarding Collaboration Technology. I made the point that as well as using Technology to enable Collaboration we need...
German authorities have ended their search for a female serial killer after discovering that DNA thought to be from 40 crime scenes actually came from a woman who packed the cotton swabs used to gathe...
The Chartered Management Institute, in association with the Civil Contingencies Secretariat of the Cabinet Office, has just released the Business Continuity Management Report 2009 (the 10th annual re...
The UK Local Government Association has compiled a banned list of the 200 worst uses of jargon, with "coterminosity" & "predictors of beaconicity" prominent in most press repor...