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Business Leaders Overlook IT Cost Savings In Favour Of Security

· Knowledge of risk reducing concepts dwarfs cost saving practices
· Financial pressure top of business agenda
London, 29 April, 2009: A survey* commissioned by NetApp has revealed that UK business leaders are in the dark about how to reduce business costs through technology, focusing [...]

British Business Must Rethink Approach to Customer Loyalty

New consumer research* launched today by The Logic Group and Ipsos MORI reveals how UK business needs to urgently rethink its approach to keeping customers loyal as the impact of the recession deepens across the country.
With barely half of UK consumers (52%) saying that they are members of a loyalty scheme, significant opportunities exist to [...]

The People’s Map Affordable Mapping For All

27th March 2009 – Today the People’s Map project launches a significant upgrade to its website bringing the vision of affordable mapping for all one step closer. The People’s Map represents the democratisation of the mapping process. Anyone can register, contribute and use the map for private, non-commercial use for free apart from a small [...]

Luxembourg Ranked Third Worldwide in Annual ITIF Innovation, Competitiveness Report

Also, Luxembourg Ranks Sixth in List of Countries Making Progress in Innovation
Luxembourg has been ranked third worldwide in overall innovation and competitiveness in the annual survey completed by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). Luxembourg placed third behind Singapore and Sweden, ahead of Denmark, South Korea, the U.S., Finland, Britain, Japan and the [...]

Obama-Mania Sweeps Europe as New U.S. President Tops List of Most Popular World Leaders

A new Harris Interactive/France 24/International Herald Tribune survey conducted online by Harris Interactive® finds President Barack Obama is the most popular political or religious leader in much of western Europe and the United States. When asked their opinion of 19 of the world’s most famous and important leaders, far more people in the five largest [...]

2Mbps? That’ll do nicely!

The Government’s Digital Britain report has proposed the target of a universal broadband service delivering at least 2 megabits per second (Mbps) throughout the UK. The idea has been heavily criticised as too little too late. But Point Topic’s specialist broadband research team strongly supports it.
We believe that investing to deliver 2Mbps could provide the [...]

2-to-1 Majority of Americans Favor Obama Meeting with Iranian Leaders, but only 1-in-3 Favor Sending More U.S. Troops to Afghanistan

New Financial Times/Harris Poll examines U.S. and European attitudes to key foreign policy issues
Most Americans feel very positively about President Obama, but that does not mean they support everything he says he plans to do. A new Financial Times/Harris Poll finds that they support his positions on some foreign policy issues but not on [...]

National Grid moves its voice and data network to Vodafone UK

Vodafone UK today announced that National Grid has awarded it a three year contract worth over £5m as its sole mobile voice and mobile data network provider in the UK.
National Grid needed a partner that could continue to provide a robust and resilient mobile voice and mobile data network. Vodafone demonstrated that its network [...]

“Celebrity Big Brother Is Watching You (More Closely)”

-Endemol signs Wavetrend to track celebrity housemates’ movements-
Endemol, one of the largest independent production companies in Britain, has selected Wavetrend, the world leader in active RFID, to install technology to track housemates in the 2009 Celebrity Big Brother series (which started on 2nd January).
The tracking system will enable the show’s producers to monitor the movements [...]

£858 Million Pressies Left to Rot

· £330 million ‘Boomerang Booty’ to be returned to shops
· Growth in “swap-a-holics” expected in 2009
December 29, 2008 – Britain will be waking up with face-ache over the Christmas period after millions of us (74%) feigned delight yesterday at a present we really don’t want! That’s according to research from TalkTalk (www.talktalk.co.uk), the home phone [...]

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