Sexist men get on better
This is not going to be good news for those people who believe in fair practice for all people, in recent research carried out by researchers at the University of Florida it has been found that men with sexist or old fashioned views about women in the work place tend to get on better than [...]
September 22, 2008Bugs used for recycling
It has been discovered a bacteria could help with the disposal of plastic item that are normally dumped in landfill sites and take several hundred years to degrade. Instead of this practice, continuing these plastics could end up being used for recycling.
The bacterium is known as Pseudomonas and they can be used on the low [...]
Gates gets into Bio Fuels
It seems that bio fuels are to be the future of keeping our cars on the road in the short term at least, but with the potential of this industry to make millions if not billions of pounds, then there is going to have to be some serious investment to get the ball rolling.
Step in, [...]
Sandwich bag looks mouldy
It has always been the case, you spend and money making your lunch for work or for the kids to take to school, only to find that people keep stealing the sandwich or taking a bite out of it. There is no excuse for this, and it is seriously annoying.
So what be done about this [...]
Postman who did not deliver
A postal worker from Edinburgh but who now works in Germany has been caught with over twenty thousand letters in his home that he failed to deliver. Police in Frankfurt say that for the entire month of August he failed to deliver any mail at all. In fact, he even failed to deliver mail to [...]
September 11, 2008Calming down an irate woman
It’s true that women from all walks of life are assaulted everyday in the home, work and other places too, but something that is not widely known is the fact that half as many men are also assaulted under the same circumstances.
The problem for some men when confronted with an aggressive woman is that they [...]
Germans not to use Chrome
The German Government have made a surprise announcement telling their citizens not to use Google Chrome, the latest edition to the browser collection.
The advice is coming from Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security no less, who say that the new browser from Google should not be used to surf the internet, this is because if [...]
Gadgets that should be banned
There can be no doubt that most of us would not be able to live our lives without the help of technology, it is everywhere whether we like it or not. However, for all of its good points there are some smaller additions to the technology market which some people feel should be banned from [...]
September 3, 2008What a bank doesn’t say
Everyone knows that banks and actually most large businesses never tell their customers the entire truth; they like to tell a story, which is reassuring to their customers. If the truth was known then maybe people would not shop or bank anywhere and that would just not do.
Below are some points which the banking industry [...]
Internet failing in the USA
At one time if we in the UK wanted to look at a website based in another country the access was almost certainly routed through the USA, after they claim to have invented the internet in the 1970’s so it is only natural that they had control of the traffic.
But over the last few years [...]
Bank details found on eBay
Anyone looking on eBay will know that there are hundreds of computers for sale and that when buying second-hand computer you never really know what you are going to get.
In this case a laptop sold for a mere £35 actually contained the personal details of over a million bank customers, this is included name, address, [...]
Olympics is the most viewed event in the USA
The Olympic Games is always a big draw in the US, this probably has something to do with the amount of medals they always win, and they walked away with a hundred and ten this time, more than anyone else did.
However, surprisingly the Beijing Olympics has been drawing an extra ordinary amount of viewers. [...]
The business of data
Information has always been a source of power, which is probably why governments used to like to keep files. Not the good thing about files is that it is virtually impossible to lose the whole lot. However, as technology continues to advance data becomes more portable.
The problem now is that portable storage is now so [...]
The pirates of Downing St
As the government presses the internet services providers to act hard and fats against those ordinary people who like to share files over internet, it turns out that the Prime Minister’s office in Downing St have a little piracy matter of their own to deal with.
It seems that the website of the Prime Minister has [...]
Roads could be a source of power
Anyone will know that when they were children and played outside, the roads during the summer got really hot. This has finally been realised by the science community who believe that this could be a brilliant source of power.
The idea is to lay conductive copper piping before a new asphalt (Black Top) is laid. They [...]
Bee deaths threaten food supplies
This is not the first time that the subject of the declining population of the UK’S bee’s has once again become news, this time because of the results from a survey that has been conducted by the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) which show that the nations bee population has fallen again.
This may seem like a [...]
Business can learn from sport
There is some things that business people can learn from sports people, as they both have similar goals and need the same qualities but that is where the similarities end. Therefore, there are some things that sports and business people have in common.
However, are there any tips that the business world could learn from the [...]
China set to lead manufacturing
Next year will be the year that China overtakes the USA as the biggest manufacturer of goods, this was always going to happen, but the experts had initially predicted that this would actually be taking place in four years time.
The main reason for this jump is being put down to the economy in the US [...]
The cloud changing business
Cloud computing is term that is becoming ever more popular these days, mainly because of the introduction of mobile broadband and Wi-Fi. This has helped employees of companies to work either from home or in the field.
The Cloud are applications which are server based, this means that remote staff are able to login wherever they [...]
Dollar still struggles against the Peso
As oil prices begin to slow down, in fact, there has been a slight decrease in the price of a barrel of crude, however the US Dollar is still struggling against most international currencies but what is truly painful for the American is that the Mexican Peso is continuing to get stronger against the Dollar.
At [...]