Baseball chiefs hold Olympic Stadium talks March 28, 2012 MAJOR League Baseball bosses are interested in staging matches at London’s Olympic Stadium as part of a first foray into Europe. High-profile basketball and American football contests have already been staged in the capital with great success, and baseball wants to follow suit. “That [London Olympic] stadium, the way it’s built, actually is big enough [...]
Saracens boost to Copthall move March 28, 2012 RUGBY UNION: Saracens expect to receive the green light to move to Barnet’s Copthall Stadium in a matter of days after the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government approved the plans. The decision paves the way for Barnet Council to formally issue planning permission to the Premiership champions, who currently play at Watford [...]
Racing icon Jordan awarded OBE March 28, 2012 FORMULA ONE: Former driver and team owner Eddie Jordan has been awarded an honorary OBE for services to charity and motor racing. The charismatic Irishman, who celebrated with a Guinness yesterday, hours after watching his beloved Chelsea win in Lisbon, said: “I am hugely surprised and greatly overjoyed.”
Contract work is a lucrative option for IT professionals March 28, 2012 IT PROFESSIONALS in contract work may seem to have it easy. Daily rates are high, they regularly move between jobs and, when their skills are in demand, they can select projects that suit their interests and professional development. They have loyalty to their industry, but not always to any one firm. But IT contracting rests [...]
JOBS of the WEEK March 28, 2012 SENIOR JAVA DEVELOPER INVESTMENT BANKING £45k-£60k pa A senior developer is required to join a global financial services vendor based in the City. The roles involves working on low latency, multi threaded systems. http://www.cityamcareers.com/job/7665 DIRECTOR QUANTITATIVE RISK DEVELOPER NEW YORK CLEARING HOUSE $150k-$180k pa + 30% bonus A leading New York clearing house is looking [...]
Video conferencing: Beyond the office March 28, 2012 IN all aspects of business, employees are increasingly demanding greater freedom of choice as to how and where they work. And giving employees this freedom of choice makes sense for a business – if work can be carried out from any number of locations your company can be more efficient with lower overheads and so [...]
Employees and customers are primed for video: Be prepared March 28, 2012 1 IF A COMPANY DOES NOT CURRENTLY USE VIDEO, IS THIS A TREND THEY CAN IGNORE? Over 4bn YouTube videos are viewed every day, and 60 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. So even if customers are not deploying video for business use, that doesn’t mean their employees are not flooding their [...]
The future of video: From the boardroom onto the high street March 28, 2012 THE current demands for video conferencing and communication technology in the office and the boardroom are clear. Businesses need a cohesive, mobile and robust system capable of responding to their needs for communication on a global scale – whether in a video conferencing suite or communicating via an iPad camera. But where are we going [...]
CASE STUDY REGUS – ANTHONY BROWN, GLOBAL DIRECTOR March 28, 2012 One of the biggest challenges of video conferencing is that, because of so many early launches, people can have a misconception of video conferencing as being crackly and poor quality. But video communication has now come of age, not just with the HD picture but also the sound. With stereo audio and HD video it [...]
Unite scored an own goal with the tanker strike – but so has Cameron March 28, 2012 LEN McCluskey, general secretary of the Unite trade union, positions himself as an arch-enemy of the government. Of the Bob Crow school of diplomacy, McCluskey remains convinced civil disobedience is necessary to halt the coalition’s deficit reduction programme. And he seems hell-bent on ruining the Olympic Games with mass industrial action. Now might seem a [...]
