Ryan Air could charge for going to the loo
The budget airline Ryan Airline may not have been joking about thinking about charging their customers for using the loo on board the plane.
Idea behind this plan is not to make money from desperate travellers, but it is thought that buy introducing the charge less travellers will use the loos and therefore Ryan Air will [...]
Ballmer will move Microsoft staff if US taxes rise
The ceo of the world’s biggest software development company Microsoft, has indicated that he would be considering moving some of the firms employees outside of the US should plans go ahead to impose a higher tax on companies foreign profits.
Steve Ballmer has said that if the plan to restrict the tax breaks for offshore companies [...]
Workers at Canon cannot sit down or walk slow
A lot of people do not like their jobs; this can be for many reasons but spare a thought for the employees of Canon the electrical giant.
They have found that all chairs have been removed from the plants and a sophisticated alarm system has been installed that goes off should an employee not be walking [...]
Apple building a $1 billion server farm
Sometimes governments and regional authorities will do almost anything to get a big name employer to set up on their patch. This is what the North Carolina government are considering in order to get Apple to move in.
The rules are simple, States can do virtually anything to get a larger company to move in, providing [...]
Google looking for answers
The current financial situation has seen many changes in the way that people and businesses are run, no longer is there the long term security of a job for life.
For businesses, it has been an exercise in cost cutting and trimming down. However, as a business attempts to save cash and create a [...]
Shop buys bad stock
It looks as if the term quality control went out of the window at supermarket chain Morrison’s when they ordered ABC building blocks intended to educate, stimulate and make learning fun, unfortunately some of the words appeared to have been lost in translation.
It is a classic mistake to make for example on brick with the [...]
The return of Dads Army
The government are once more training a “Dads Army” but this time instead of defending our shores against invasion, these part timers will be spying on the general public.
Sixty thousand new recruits have been chosen by the police and Mi5 to act as sleepers in their normal jobs which could be working on the railway, [...]
Google win Street View case
It has been nearly a year since a couple from Pittsburgh in the US decided that the Street View feature by Google was a step too far. The couple started a lawsuit against the search giant claiming that Google Maps was an invasion of their privacy.
They are not alone because all around the country and [...]
Nissan cutting 20,000 jobs
The last time the third largest carmaker in the world posted a loss was back in 2000, but even then, it was on the back of a seven year long struggle. Since then company has become more efficient by streamlining its operations.
However, when a credit crunch hits, the last thing on most people’s minds is [...]
Impressions count in business
Many people who run small businesses or start-ups often ask the question of how they can drum up some more business. However, without the need for huge investments in advertising.
It is not any easy question to answer, because there is no easy way out. What this needs is time and some good business practices like [...]
US interest rates couldn’t get any lower
In the US the Federal Reserve has once again cut interest rates, they now stand at between zero per cent and a quarter of a per cent, they really cannot go any lower if they did then the banks would be paying people to take out loans with them.
This is a bold move to get [...]
Wall St Bankers to get £40 Billion
Despite all of the talk of how the banking industry has been suffering, it seems that the government cash handouts designed to keep the banks afloat in the US, is not really been going in the places that some people think.
It has been estimated that around £40 billion is going to be used pay the [...]
Breaks help sort problems
An experiment has found that that taking a break from a problem solving exercise can actually help the solution come much faster. The research team from the Northwestern University in Illinois surveyed and tested one hundred and thirty volunteers to find how problem solving could be achieved faster.
They found that those people who took [...]
Sexist men get on better
This is not going to be good news for those people who believe in fair practice for all people, in recent research carried out by researchers at the University of Florida it has been found that men with sexist or old fashioned views about women in the work place tend to get on better than [...]
September 16, 2008Sandwich bag looks mouldy
It has always been the case, you spend and money making your lunch for work or for the kids to take to school, only to find that people keep stealing the sandwich or taking a bite out of it. There is no excuse for this, and it is seriously annoying.
So what be done about this [...]
Postman who did not deliver
A postal worker from Edinburgh but who now works in Germany has been caught with over twenty thousand letters in his home that he failed to deliver. Police in Frankfurt say that for the entire month of August he failed to deliver any mail at all. In fact, he even failed to deliver mail to [...]
September 11, 2008Calming down an irate woman
It’s true that women from all walks of life are assaulted everyday in the home, work and other places too, but something that is not widely known is the fact that half as many men are also assaulted under the same circumstances.
The problem for some men when confronted with an aggressive woman is that they [...]
The business of data
Information has always been a source of power, which is probably why governments used to like to keep files. Not the good thing about files is that it is virtually impossible to lose the whole lot. However, as technology continues to advance data becomes more portable.
The problem now is that portable storage is now so [...]
The pirates of Downing St
As the government presses the internet services providers to act hard and fats against those ordinary people who like to share files over internet, it turns out that the Prime Minister’s office in Downing St have a little piracy matter of their own to deal with.
It seems that the website of the Prime Minister has [...]
Business can learn from sport
There is some things that business people can learn from sports people, as they both have similar goals and need the same qualities but that is where the similarities end. Therefore, there are some things that sports and business people have in common.
However, are there any tips that the business world could learn from the [...]