All that time spent carefully filing emails into ever-more complex folder structures is a waste. “Searchers” were able to find emails more quickly than “filers” in a study by IBM covering 354 email users. Â Filers took nearly a minute per email on average, with searchers only take a third of that time.
How to get 211 tonnes of gold to VenezuelaÂ
Most of the comments on this Slashdot article about fraud and crashes with Bitcoin are insightful. Some are funny too. Most telling for me is that one of the primary Bitcoin exchanges Mt Gox started life as “Magic The Gathering Online Exchange” – an exchange to trade collectable cards for a fantasy game. Should I…
Prediction: Â Bitcoins will be irrelevant by 2013 and will never emerge from a very small niche market. In fact, they are already irrelevant today. This is what happens when open source supporters, crypto experts and privacy nuts think an understanding of C++ and maths equates to knowledge of economics and monetary systems. Oh, and add…
BusinessLive (I’m sure they’re not alone this morning) has a story about the non-implementation of the new Companies Act on the scheduled 1 April 2011 date. Some key snippets: Manoko said that, while the new Companies Act was meant to be implemented tomorrow (Friday, April 1), he was “uncertain when it will go through”, based…
According to a Fin24 story this morning, the FSB is probing smaller unit trusts. The economics of a fund manager depends entirely on growing funds under management so that revenues (based on assets under management) grow to be larger than costs (significantly fixed and at most semi-variable). Details of performance fees and the second order…
Sharemax appears to be spiralling to its doom. Multiple stories today report that they are late on dividend payments to investors and may not be able to pay dividends in the forseeable future. Cash has run out. The overvalued, over-geared properties cannot support the income stream that was demanded from them. No surprises here then.…
Ok, so that is an unfair title. But you’ll understand what I mean: Zurich Financial Services has just been fined £2.3m for a data loss event incurred in 2008 in South Africa. Zurich joins HSBC, Nationwide and Norwich Union in the club of companies fined by the FSA now. In fairness, the fine wasn’t so…
