December 31, 2007

Office Gadgets that end careers

The office is a place of work, this is how we earn money to pay the rent etc, so when you take the following gifts in, makes sure that you remember that these gadgets can cost you job and therefore you livelihood, so play with caution:
Desktop Warfare Kit - Let battle commence!
Shooting Cubicle Alarm System [...]

December 28, 2007

Amazon has a good Christmas

Considering that there has been much talk about the slow lead up to the Christmas rush, but that must have just been one side of the story, for despite the talking down of sales, some businesses have actually thrived and it is the online retailers who have done very well for themselves.
Amazon has announced that [...]

December 27, 2007

Mobile phones by Google in Feb

We have heard for a while about the gPhone but there has been so rumours abound that it is virtually impossible to separate the facts from the fibs, but now it seems that we are getting some decent information coming through and what we are hearing is nothing very spectacular.
From some sources it would appear [...]

December 21, 2007

Google hire people for feedback

Imagine a job where you search Google and look at the results all day long! Well there may just be an opportunity at Google for just a position like that one. Sounds interesting!
Google are in a funny position at the moment, they are still riding on their successes of a few years ago, and are [...]

December 20, 2007

Sony to offer trade in on TV’s

Don’t throw that old TV away because it could worth a little bit of cash. This is being rolled out across the States at the moment, but don’t think that it’s going to be like trading your old car in for part exchange, because this scheme does not work like that.
People with an old TV [...]

December 18, 2007

Digg for sale

It has been the talk for some time that the social voting site Digg would be either sold or taken into a larger group, but there has never been any real substance behind all of these claims, but now it would seem that the owners of the site has put a price tag on Digg, [...]

December 17, 2007

The rich get richer

In the US it seems that age old theory of the rich getting richer is still true, as new reports are published, these show that only one per cent of Americans in the years from 2003 to 2005 had an income that exceeded the total income of the lowest paid twenty per cent of the [...]

December 14, 2007

BT caps business broadband

Some BT broadband users are finding that they are being capped for their use, despite having an unlimited usage.
But apparently it seems this does apply, as some users are seeing their connection speeds falling from 800 kbps to 50-100 kbps, but after contacting the service dept, who simply say that there must be a fault [...]

December 12, 2007

No kebabs means better air quality

China are so desperate to improve the air quality in Beijing for next years Olympics, that they have been around the city and decided to ban the street markets that sell food, in particular kebabs because they use wood to cook with this creates a problem of its own through the smoke given off.
There are [...]

December 11, 2007

The £10 million tip

Owners of a Chinese restaurant who were left a £10 million in the will of one their customers have a legal battle to keep the money.
Golda Bechal befriended Kin Sing Man and his wife over a period of more than ten years, after the deaths of her son and husband. They went on holidays and [...]

December 10, 2007

Carol singers have to copyright

As always the Christmas spirit is running through the veins of everyone, you can always tell because there is the element of “Scrooge” that comes out in some form or another.
This time it is the people who police the copyrights are hitting children who like to sing Christmas carols!
The Performing Rights Society have visited a [...]

December 6, 2007

Social networks help borrowers

As the banks tighten up their lending principles and the interest on loans and credit cards begin to bite hard where else can someone go to borrow that much needed cash?
There is a growing trend called peer to peer lending, where people borrow money from other members of certain sites, these may be Virgin Money, [...]

December 5, 2007

Man who likes Guinness

They say that the most famous Irish export Guinness is good for you, but one man has taken this to the extreme, when he helped himself to a container sitting outside of the Guinness brewery on Victoria Quay in Dublin.
However there is a moral to this story and that is if you intend to steal [...]

December 3, 2007

Big Amazon giveaway

To promote the great Amazon MP3 store, the company are planning on a large scale giveaway to get people started this will take place during the Super Bowl game in February.
Amazon launched their site back in September where it is said that they have around two million tracks available for download, over time this will [...]