Opinion

Opinion

• Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder

  Staff absence costs employers a fortune every year. According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, with an average salary of £25000, this amounts to some £32 billion a year. The CIPD also reckon that less than 50 per ...  Continue Reading

• Be careful with ex-gratia payments

  How often have employers found it expedient to dismiss an employee and then give them an ex-gratia payment to keep them happy (and quiet)? Well those that follow this practice should be aware of a recent case - Publicist Consultants UK Ltd v ...  Continue Reading

• Corporate hi-jacking

  According to credit reference agency, Graydon UK, there's been a huge rise in fraud attempts perpetrated against businesses.  Continue Reading

• Feeling the anger

  Cycling home from work last night the timing meant that I arrived in Peckham just as the rioters were spilling over the main street looking for trouble. My sunglasses were snatched and my back wheel buckled but luckily that's as far as it went and I...  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing's hidden costs, part five. Far from the Madding Cloud

  Vladimir Jirasek, non-executive director CSA UK & Ireland and member of CAMM, speaks from bitter experience about a cloud heist that went wrong. "I have had experience of migrating to Cloud and between different SaaS clouds," he laments.  Continue Reading

• Women aren't hot (potatoes)

  It appears that the Government, Europe and society wants more women to be employed at board level.  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing's hidden costs, part four. The roar of the cloud

  Ten years ago, Winston Bogarde was a very good footballer. He must have been, because show biz club Chelsea paid him forty thousand pounds a week! That was a lot of money in them days. So he must have been pretty handy. Mind you, I never saw him ...  Continue Reading

• Worried about phone hacking? It's time for a SpinVox revival!

  I told the world about SpinVox but no-one listened. Then along came the BBC's glamorous Rory Cellan-Jones, and they all listened. I can't imagine why no one took me seriously! (Here I am, left, in a kimono) About the time when the News of the World ...  Continue Reading

• Government money laundering consultation kicks off

  The Government is consulting on proposals to revise the Money Laundering Regulations following a review.  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing's hidden costs, part three

  It can be expensive if you have a careless cloud looking after your data. Many of these providers are more clown than cloud service providers. Your business could be found on the hard drives sold by the Cloud provider.  Continue Reading

• How the channel can help the NHS stop leaking our data and money - Safestick Review

  Why does the NHS constantly lose our personal data? Is it corruption? Is it because nobody cares? Bad management? Safe stick, a secure USB, could be the answer to our problems. It's a simple device, aimed at simpletons who are prone to heft and loss.  Continue Reading

• Wiggle-room for retirement

  Whilst it should be common knowledge that the default retirement age is being abolished from this October, it appears that the European Court of Justice has given employers a little latitude so that some employees can be compulsorily retired.  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing's hidden costs, part two

  The cost of getting your data back when you change Cloud provider is horrendous, warns Mike Small, a member of London Chapter ISACA security advisory group. "Many contracts do not clarify who owns the data in the cloud and how you can get it back ...  Continue Reading

• Big name brands join rush for XXX adult domain names

  Web hosting specialist Easy space has today reported that the release of .XXX domains for pre-ordering has sparked a rush of interest from firms eager to protect their brands.  Continue Reading

• Google spurned offer to join Microsoft and Apple in bid for "bogus patents"

  To many people out there, the name Brad Smith might not be too familiar. He's Microsoft's general counsel and most of the time anyone would have come across his name in the past would probably have been in defending the software giant against ...  Continue Reading