Q&A November 2, 2011 Q.WHAT IS THE CLOUD? A.Instead of accessing files from your hard drive, you are accessing files remotely. Cloud email is simply the way you’ve always accessed your webmail or Hotmail or Gmail. Cloud computing is taking that idea and extending it to everything you traditionally keep on your hard drive such as documents and pictures. [...]
OUT OF OFFICE November 2, 2011 SKYLON COCKTAIL CLASSES Jazz up your Monday and join in Skylon’s cocktail classes. Learn how to make the perfect Manhattan cocktail with mixologist Zoran Peric and evoke old school New York glamour against the London skyline. These drop-in classes are informal, so brush up your classic cocktail skills before taking dinner in the restaurant, or [...]
Houellebecq’s bizarre new novel is (almost) brilliant November 2, 2011 THE MAP AND THE TERRITORY BY MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Heinemann , £17.99 THE arcane title of this book should serve as a fair warning to the reader familiar with Atomised, Platform and other cult Houellebecq novels. While those books are driven by sexual desperation and erotic tragedy (alongside the usual heaping helpings of profound dystopia), The [...]
GOING OUT November 2, 2011 The Hawksmoor empire has opened their third and beefiest establishment in Guildhall and its separate 50-seater bar helps reinforce the group’s penchant for cocktails as well as steak. Pall Mall just got a bit posher with the addition of The Balcon and its new St James’s Bar. Drawing inspiration from Coco Chanel’s 1920s Paris apartment [...]
Two cookbooks to add flavour to your winter kitchen November 2, 2011 My Kind of Cooking Mark Sargeant Published by Quercus £20 Odd bits: How to Cook the Rest of the Animal Jennifer McLagan Published by Jacqui Small £20 Mark Sargeant was a Gordon Ramsay protégé and Head Chef at Claridges formerly unnoticed in the shadow of his boss. Now, he’s done it on his own – [...]
Former Olympus chief chief will see inquiry – but not in Japan November 2, 2011 The former chief executive of Japan’s Olympus signalled his willingness to meet investigators appointed to probe a scandal engulfing the firm, but he said he would not meet them in Japan due to safety concerns. British-based Michael Woodford, whose sacking and revelations about irregular deals and payments triggered the scandal last month, said he would [...]
Construction activity hits five-month high November 2, 2011 Construction activity picked up unexpectedly last month to a five-month high as firms took on new work and increased their workforce, but businesses were less optimistic about the future, a survey showed on Wednesday. The Markit/CIPS construction PMI headline activity index jumped to 53.9 in October from 50.1 the previous month, smashing expectations for a [...]
Standard Life sales up 10pc November 2, 2011 British life insurer Standard Life reported a smaller-than-expected 10 per cent rise in nine-month sales and said its capital strength had been largely unaffected by financial market turmoil triggered by the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Standard Life, Britain’s fifth-biggest life insurer, said it had long-term new business sales of £15.5bn in the first nine months [...]
Next buoyed by home shopping November 2, 2011 Retailer Next kept its full-year profit forecast on Wednesday, after a fall in third-quarter sales at its high street business was offset by strong growth from its Directory home shopping business. The firm, which runs over 500 stores in Britain and Ireland as well as the Directory operation, said total sales, excluding VAT sales tax, [...]
Standard Chartered on track for ninth year of record earnings November 2, 2011 Standard Chartered said its nine-month underlying profit grew at a double-digit rate, helped by a strong showing in markets including Hong Kong, putting the Asia-focused bank on track for a ninth straight year of record earnings. The UK bank’s business update comes on the same day lenders Westpac Banking Corp of Australia and DBS of [...]
