Nokia’s much anticipated smartphone the N8, is set to launch via Vodafone. The N8 handset marks the start of Nokia’s fight back in a market hitherto dominated by the Apple iPhone , Google’s Android system and Research in Motion’s Blackberry. The N8 will run using the Symbian OS which will allow personalised home screens and multitasking of apps. A [...]
A new Corporate Governance Code was issued today by the Financial Reporting Council, which for the first time requires Boards to ‘ Pay due regard to the benefits of diversity on the Board, including gender’. Only 12% of Directors in the FTSE 100 companies are women and this drops to 7% in the medium sized [...]
Andrulla Hajistylli of EDF Energy who went out of her way to resolve a difficult billing issue for a client of ours. The issue had been dragging on since January 2010 and was resolved with Andrulla’s help last week, much to the satisfaction of our client. When we get good service we like to publicise [...]
In an effort to curb costs , the Charity Commission will make 60 redundancies over the next year. There has been a £900,000 reduction in funding for the commissionfor 2010/11, despite the increased demand for their services and that of charities in general during the current economic crisis. Chief Executive, Andrew Hind, said that in real terms, the commissions [...]
GDF -Suez has established itself as one of the top five energy providers to the UK , with a deal to supply more than nine terrawatts of power to five of Britain’s biggest water companies, including Wessex Water. The deal increases GDF-Suez’s market share to 6% putting it ahead of rival Scottish Power for the first time. [...]