We are our way to Wembley – but not yet
30 Nov 2005 [0 Comments | 53 views]
If the new Wembley Stadium is a trial run for the Olympics then we’ve got a problem. The new football stadium, which can already be seen across London, might not be finished in time for the FA cup final next year and yesterday bookmakers Coral Racing Ltd said it’s no longer taking bets on whether [...]
IT: The Next Ten Years – preventable deaths to fall, IT specialists must change their spots, internet and cellular telephony to take over
30 Nov 2005 [0 Comments | 50 views]
According to a report from Gartner there will be a 50% growth in IT investment in the healthcare sector between now and 2013, and this could enable clinicians to reduce the level of preventable deaths by 50 percent by 2013. Wes Rishel, managing vice president at Gartner, a leading research company said, “The earliest adoption [...]
House prices are significantly overvalued says OECD
30 Nov 2005 [0 Comments | 76 views]
Just as the property market experts have been busily saying, “see, told you talk of a property market crash was ridiculous,” the OECD has spoilt their celebrations, warning that house prices in the UK, Ireland and Spain were significantly overvalued. But before the OECD put the cat amongst the pigeons, Nationwide released its monthly report [...]
pension crisis boost to Buy to Let
29 Nov 2005 [0 Comments | 63 views]
Worried about your pension? Not keen on the idea of working until you are 69.8? (see yesterday’s issue,) then best if you look for an alternative. And that says the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors is what Buy to Let Investors are doing. RICS reckons that just 4% of Buy to Let investors are now [...]
BP whistles down the wind
29 Nov 2005 [0 Comments | 68 views]
BP is moving away from oil. It’s currently in the throws of a high profile marketing campaign under the slogan Beyond Petroleum and yesterday, the oil giant revealed plans to double its investment into alternative energy. It’s investing $8bn over the next ten years, and reckons that it will build the largest alternative power business [...]
Email for mobile phones: Blackberry arrivals gather
29 Nov 2005 [0 Comments | 34 views]
Hoover, and perhaps now Dyson, Biro and Coke: the business text books are full of examples of brands that have become so well know that the brand name has become synonymous with the generic product. Maybe Blackberry is the latest example. Half of all corporate emails for mobile phones use Blackberry and when customers enter [...]
Gold hits 18 year high: what does this mean?
29 Nov 2005 [0 Comments | 70 views]
In times of trouble, investors often rush for gold. At least that’s how it used to be, but these days, gold is seen by many as…well as a metal for making jewellery It hit an all time high in January 1980, when it was going for $873 an ounce, since then the movements in the [...]
Nokia sees Chinese expansion
28 Nov 2005 [0 Comments | 56 views]
The global mobile phone market is set grow faster than is widely expected next year, says Nokia. The world’s leading mobile phone company reckons that the number of subscribers in China will jump from 380million at the moment, to 630 million by 2010.
Blackberry phones could disappear down the US legal system
28 Nov 2005 [0 Comments | 54 views]
Wander around Liverpool Street and the station concourse: it’s awash with city types using their Blackberry mobile phone for sending and receiving emails. In the US, there could be trouble ahead. There’s a legal dispute between Research in Motion, the company behind the Blackberry phones and a small private company called NTP. The dispute is [...]
Pension debate: take a look down under
28 Nov 2005 [0 Comments | 56 views]
With the Turner report into pensions to be unveiled this week, the UK pension crisis is set to sit centre stage of the economic debate in the days ahead. Up to now the debate has been focused on the time we should retire. Writing in the Sunday Times David Smith, for example, suggested that in [...]
