EMPLOYEES’ DEVICES CAN WORK FOR YOU BUT PREPARE AHEAD February 22, 2012 HOW DOES THE REQUIREMENT FOR NETWORK SECURITY DIFFER IN A BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE WORKPLACE, THAN IN A WORKPLACE WITH FIXED DEVICES? In a workplace with fixed devices, security was simpler. You could secure entry to the corporate network via firewalls and intrusion protection. With an increasingly mobile workforce using a variety of devices, the [...]
Three Isa myths that must go bust February 22, 2012 IT IS surprising how many City folk – versed, as they often are, in the intricacies of structuring complex financial products – don’t know the basics of individual savings accounts (Isas). It isn’t uncommon to need to explain to bankers that the Isa allowance can be taken every year; that it isn’t a product in [...]
Terrier(ble) returns hound many funds February 22, 2012 Bestinvest throws a spaniel in the works – revealing once again the managers chasing their own tail INVESTING in stock markets has been challenging for investors, with so many ways to access various investments. Fund groups and brokers are also continuously promoting new fund launches, providing a wide array of choice, but this often means [...]
How to find the next crop of cyber security experts February 22, 2012 Hacking group Anonymous rose from obscurity last year to become a household name. Earlier this month it intercepted a phone call between the FBI and UK police discussing, ironically, the fight against cyber crime. The audacious hack was the latest in a string of high profile attacks targeting governments, police forces and corporations across the [...]
Catherine is tantalisingly close to being a great game February 22, 2012 Tantalus made a pretty bad mistake: he pissed off Zeus. To make amends, he chopped up his son Pelops, boiled him in a pot and served him as a sacrificial aperitif. Now, as you might have predicted, this only made things worse and Zeus, not the most forgiving of gods at the best of times, [...]
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS February 22, 2012 NOKIA TO UNVEIL CHEAPER LUMIA Nokia is poised to unveil a new, cheaper smartphone using Microsoft’s Windows Phone software at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona next week. The struggling Finnish giant wants to target a wider market for its new range of smartphones, with its flagship Lumia 800 failing to make the desired [...]
Dow hits 13,000 February 21, 2012 But European traders are sceptical as Greek bailout rally fades US MARKETS ignored the shakiness of the Greek bailout deal yesterday, with bullish investors pushing the Dow Jones through the symbolically important 13,000 mark for the first time since before the financial crisis. But Europe’s markets slipped as worries mounted that politicians had comprehensively failed [...]
BC’s new fund pulls in €6.5bn February 21, 2012 PRIVATE equity house BC Partners has shone a ray of light on the troubled buyout industry by raising €6.5bn (£5.45bn), in the largest European fundraising since the onset of the financial crisis. The owner of gyms chain Fitness First and Swedish cable group Com Hem raised more than it expected despite many of the world’s [...]
Osborne’s lucky escape on the deficit February 21, 2012 FOR once, and I can barely believe that I’m writing this, George Osborne has reason to be happy. The budget deficit for this fiscal year to date (April 2011-January 2012) was a still horrendous, Greek-style £93.5bn, but this was down £15.6bn from a year earlier, a very non-Greek development. This is a much better performance [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING February 21, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES OSBORNE URGED TO CUT TAXES ON BUSINESS George Osborne has come under renewed pressure from the Conservative right to cut business taxes and simplify labour laws in next month’s Budget. Liam Fox, the former defence secretary, called for urgent action to deal with the “true horror” of the government’s economic inheritance. PANDORA PLUNGES [...]
