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Matt White

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Outsourcers get crunched

The current market turmoil looks like it's going to hit offshore outsourcing firms pretty hard. As the FT reported a couple of days ago, firms like HCL and Wipro are putting a brave face on the crisis, insisting the events at Lehman - a customer of both - won't have much of an impact on them. But despite the bullishness, Wachovia Capital Markets h...

19 September 2008 /retail /wholesale

IT administrators - devious and dangerous

You might want to think twice before laying off any IT administrators because it appears they can, and more importantly will, walk away with all your company secrets. A survey from Cyber Ark has found that of 300 IT security professionals questioned, 88% would steal valuable and sensitive company information if laid off tomorrow. Some would walk a...

28 August 2008 Information Security

Citi cost cutting gets desperate

Having been hit hard by the credit crunch, Citi has come up with an ingenious plan to save some cash. According to a memo seen by the Telegraph, the bank has decided that colour photocopying is a bit extravagant for these troubled times and is forcing staff to make do with good old black and white for internal meetings. Earlier this year Paul Pen...

26 August 2008 Whatever...

Barclays' moral compass

Barclays seems to have no problem dealing with the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe, just as it was happy in apartheid South Africa. It's apparently content with its culture of targets and bonuses, even if this does encourage desperate staff to routinely mis-sell and lie to customers. So where does the bank draw the line? Well, according to Financial N...

01 August 2008 Whatever...

The changing face of offshoring

In the wake of Aviva's sale of its offshore operations to WNS, Businessweek has an interesting article on what it calls the "monumental shift" in the way Western firms tap into Indian expertise. For a host of different reasons, companies are increasingly turning away from 'captive' offshore operations to outsourcing. One of the most impo...

16 July 2008

Working out at work

Good news for office workers worried that nine hours a day sat motionless in front of a PC is taking its toll on their waistlines. The Walkstation, from US office furniture outfit Details, is here to help you fight the flab. This ingenious product combines a computer workstation with a treadmill, so you can walk while you work. According to James ...

14 July 2008 Whatever...

Forgot to buy a wedding gift? Please insert card

A Tel Aviv wedding hall has come up with a novel way of ensuring guests don't forget to leave the bride and groom a gift. Gan Oranim hall has installed an ATM style device that lets guests insert their credit cards and enter the amount they want to give the couple. The machine then prints out a deposit slip with the guest's name which can be inser...

11 July 2008 /retail Whatever...

Taking the office on holiday

There's no doubt that mobile phones, laptops, blackberries and the like have their good points but a recent survey highlights the price we pay for always being connected. Of 300 City workers questioned by IT security outfit Credant, a depressing 65% say they'll contact the office by phone, text or e-mail whilst on their summer holidays. Over a quar...

10 July 2008 /retail

Mugabe 0 - Boris 1

G&D really had no choice but to pull out of Zimbabwe. The German firm wasn't just under pressure from governments and the public, it was also in danger of losing big money contracts. The German firm supplies London's Oyster cards through a sub-contract with EDS. On hearing of the link between the firm and Mugabe's regime a couple of days ago,...

04 July 2008 /retail

Twitter to rule P2P payments?

I don't really get Twitter but maybe it's time to start paying attention because the microblogging site could soon be a major player in mobile person-to-person payments. Earlier this week Nate Westheimer, Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Rose Tech Ventures, posted a blog claiming the site, which doesn't make any real money yet, could become a billion ...

04 July 2008 /payments /retail Futuristic Banking