So your PC is a bit slow but it does the job. You don’t want to go to the expense of a new machine or re-installing all of your software but you could really do with getting a bit more done every day. Waiting 15 seconds to open each application really adds up every day!…
Details
Discovered whilst the company were compiling a guide advising on a healthy work-life balance for business owners and entrepreneurs, research by Sage revealed that an astonishing 45% of those business owners work between 40 and 60 hours per week and a further 16% work even longer hours still. With that in mind, it would be…
Details
Encryption provides us with a high level of privacy, but Europol director Rob Wainwright says that encrypted devices could be helping terrorists. Is it essential, or does it need to be scrapped? Police and security services are unable to access data that is passed over an encrypted network. Mr Wainwright states that terrorists and other…
Details
Startup collaboration is necessary if banks want to ensure new technology from other firms does not disrupt their business, claims the Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS’s) CEO for commercial and private banking. In her argument, Alison Rose was specifically referring to the fintech startup community. She says that although the growth of financial technology over the past…
Details
Will we soon be Driving Computers Instead of Cars? ‘Like driving an iPad’ is how Mark Tinkler, the investment manager for market leading electric vehicle manufacturers Tesla, has described getting behind the wheel of some of their most innovative new automobiles. Focussing more on design and software and less on engineering and mechanical components, a…
Details
The majority of critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft software would not have had as severe an impact if certain users did not have admin rights, a UK security firm claims. Avecto’s research shows admin rights were needed in order to exploit 99.5 per cent of flaws in Internet Explorer, 97 per cent in Windows operating systems and 95 per cent of…
Details