Walking into your home and having everything automated by one voice activated system sounds like science fiction, but it’s very much science fact. Rapid advances in technology means the number…
Author: <span>Les Roberts</span>
Losing a job can be quite tricky, especially if you have a steady career with a stable company – even if you fall way short of being a model professional, it can take a lot to get your P45.
That said, it can also be all-too-easy to lose your job, especially if you’re prepared to go out in an ignominious blaze of glory – punching a horrible boss, or trashing your work station in a fit of pique ought to do the trick.
In reality though, if someone kills their career, it’s usually a slow and painful death, and will probably contain one of these seven deadly workplace sins…
Cyber crime is on the up – the total costs of cyber attacks reached an estimated $400 billion in 2015, according to figures from Lloyds Banking Group, and this figure is expected to quadruple to a staggering $2.1 trillion by 2019.
And although it’s the attacks on larger companies that make all the headlines, all businesses are at risk, as research from Microsoft has found a fifth (20%) of SMEs have been targeted by cyber criminals.
2016 was a landmark year for cyber security as two of the biggest hacks in history were revealed, with internet giant Yahoo at the centre of both after suffering a double strike that saw more than a billion email accounts compromised.
Here are the biggest cyber attacks of 2016…
The proposed $4.8 billion sale of American search and tech giant Yahoo to telecoms firm Verizon has been put on hold following a series of high-profile data security breaches that saw more than 1 billion email accounts compromised.
Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – an Arabian peninsula upon which Dubai also sits – and is the second largest Arab economy after Saudi Arabia and 30th largest globally with the 18th highest GDP per capita (USD 44,200) rate.
Although in the middle of a very oil-rich part of the world, the UAE has diversified its economy away from oil, with almost three-quarters of its GDP now coming from non-oil sectors.
The UAE is the UK’s 12 largest global export market, and its largest civil export market in the Middle East, and there are over 5,000 British companies operating out the, including big names such as BAE Systems, BP, HSBC, Rolls Royce, and Shell, while 779 commercial agencies and 4,762 British brands have invested in the UAE.
The majority of the UAE population is made up of expatriates, with around 120,000 UK residents.
So if you’re in a position to join them and do business in Abu Dhabi, you’ll need a cost-effective, easy to use and reliable international conference call provider – look no further than ConferenceCall.co.uk.
Cyber crime is on the rise – recently released figures from both the police and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed the extent of the problem faced not just by the authorities, but anyone with an online presence.
The average UK commuter spends one-hour-and thirty-eight minutes travelling to and from work each day – 49 minutes there and the same back again – and is just another part of the working day for most of us.
The trouble is, the daily commute is not particularly good for your health – in fact, it could be killing you. Here are four things you may not have realised the journey to and from work is doing to your body…
How would you feel about leaving the car at home and strapping yourself into a jetpack to tackle the daily commute?
It’s a scenario straight from science fiction, but one a Chinese tech firm is looking to make science fact in the not-too-distant future – so could the Martin Jetpack really change the face of commuting forever?
The UK has a problem with broadband speed – more than a million UK homes are unable to get connected with sufficient speeds to run everyday online tasks such as video streaming and conference calling, according to new findings from Ofcom, the independent regulator of the UK’s communication industry.
The industry watchdog has revealed that 1.4 million properties, which equates to 5% of all UK homes, don’t have access to broadband with speeds over 10 megabits per second (Mbps).
And although this represents a drop of almost half (42%) in the number of homes without access to fast broadband – Ofcom’s 2015 report found 2.4 million homes were unable to access 10Mbps broadband – it’s still a cause for concern for the government’s broadband targets.
Brexit could be a disaster for UK telecom companies if they’re not a central part of the government’s negotiations to leave the European Union (EU), according to the head Ofcom, the UK communications regulator.
Addressing the Institute for Government in London, Sharon White, Chief Executive of Ofcom, said: “Making Brexit a success matters for communications – because these services are fundamental to our lives.”
So what does the UK government have to do to make sure the telecoms industry is covered?