BT suffers huge broadband failure October 3, 2011 A power failure at a major exchange in Birmingham caused problems for hundreds of thousands of BT Broadband customers across the UK yesterday. The firm said the “brief outage” would have lasted would have lasted for “little more than an hour” and had now been restored.
Technology can increase flexibility during Games October 2, 2011 Q&A: London 2012 TIME TO GET READY Q. OUR EMPLOYEES RELY HEAVILY ON FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS IN OUR OFFICE . HOW CAN WE MANAGE THIS WITHOUT LOSING BUSINESS? A. During the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the transport network will be much busier than normal. This will have a big impact on employees and clients, particularly when [...]
TalkTalk tops complaints league table September 22, 2011 TALKTALK once again topped the table of most complained about phone and broadband providers, according to new research by Ofcom. The X-Factor sponsor received more than three times as many complaints per 1,000 customers as its closest rival for its phone services and twice as many regarding its broadband packages. However, the number of complaints [...]
PUBS WAR CAN WAIT AS JOE LEWIS EXPECTS NEW GREAT-GRANDCHILD September 14, 2011 ALL EYES remain on financier Joe Lewis, whose surprise appearance in London on his superyacht Aviva ten days ago has been satisfactorily explained by this week’s hostile move to take control of pub chain Mitchells & Butlers. Case closed. Or is it? As ever with the enigmatic Bahamas-based billionaire, the truth is rather more surprising [...]
Work from home to avoid the Olympic queues September 11, 2011 Q&A: London 2012 TIME TO GET READY Q. WE ARE IN AN OLYMPIC HOTSPOT AREA AND HAVE STARTED SPEAKING TO OUR EMPLOYEES ABOUT OUR PLANS THROUGHOUT THE GAMES. NONE OF OUR EMPLOYEES CURRENTLY WORK FROM HOME AND ALTHOUGH THIS SEEMS TO BE A VIABLE OPTION, WE’RE NOT SURE WHERE TO START. WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST? [...]
COLT PENS BT TOWER DEAL September 8, 2011 Colt has penned a deal with BT that will allow businesses across Europe access to high definition content via the BT Tower, City A.M. can reveal. The information supplier to businesses says the agreement will allow its European customers to broadcast content such as the Olympic games and will open up syndication revenue opportunities for [...]
Paralympian’s view: Oscar Pistorius September 8, 2011 THE BLADE RUNNER LOOKS TO 2012 Q.HOW ARE YOU PREPARING FOR THE LONDON 2012 PARALYMPIC GAMES? A.I’m still busy with the 2011 season at the moment, which ends in two weeks’ time. I’ll have a bit of time off and then my training for London 2012 will begin at the end of October. I had [...]
Prepare yourself for the Paralympic Games too September 4, 2011 Q&A: London 2012 TIME TO GET READY Q. MY BUSINESS IS CURRENTLY PREPARING FOR THE OLYMPIC GAMES. I KNOW THE PARALYMPIC GAMES ARE BEING HELD A COUPLE OF WEEKS AFTER THE OLYMPIC GAMES. WHAT IMPACT WILL THEY HAVE ON MY BUSINESS? A. The Paralympic Games start approximately two weeks after the Olympic Games and run [...]
UK bosses agree pay clawbacks August 29, 2011 MORE than half of the UK’s top firms will soon be tied into schemes where the pay of top executives can be recouped if decisions they make adversely affect the business. A third of companies say they will introduce so-called clawback schemes next year, adding to the 25 per cent who brought one in over [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING August 29, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES WATCHDOG HITS OUT AT BANKS OVER GREEK DEBT Some European financial institutions should have taken bigger losses on their Greek government bond holdings in recent results announcements, according to the body that sets their accounting rules. the International Accounting Standards Board criticised the inconsistent way in which banks and insurers have been writing [...]