Archive for August 2020
How Pension Schemes Can Build-In Effective Cyber Security Measures
Cyber risk is now a major threat to pension schemes as criminals target online services in search of personal data and assets. Managing this risk by building-in cyber resilience and operating internal controls are the ways in which trustees and scheme managers can keep the cybercriminals locked out and maintain the right levels of security…
Read MoreTrump Terminates TikTok
The Trump administration’s next high-profile target in its Chinese trade-war is the hugely popular video-sharing mobile app TikTok, which has been slapped with a 45-day ban in the U.S. from 20 September 2020. Executive Orders Chinese apps TikTok (from parent ByteDance) and WeChat (from parent Tencent) have received Executive Orders forbidding “any transaction by any person,…
Read MoreNo More Laptops From Toshiba
Tokyo-based Toshiba Corporation has announced that it has now transferred the remaining 19.9 per cent of its outstanding shares in its PC business (re-branded as Dynabook Inc.) to Sharp Corporation. Helped By Foxconn Back in June 2018, Japan’s Sharp Corp announced that it was buying Toshiba Corp’s personal computer business for $36 million. The purchase made…
Read MoreStarling: an Example of Challenger Bank Boosted During Pandemic
A statement to investors from Anne Boden, CEO of Starling, gives an example of how and why starter banks and Fintech have seen a rise in popularity over the period of the pandemic. Starling Starling is a London-based, digital, mobile-only challenger bank that was designed and formed in 2014 by Anne Boden, a banker with…
Read MoreRemote Working and Office 365
Remote working during the pandemic has made businesses look more closely at what IT tools are best for the job. Here is a look at what Microsoft’s Office 365 has to offer. Remote Working ONS figures show that 53 per cent of those in the information and communication industries, for example, had the opportunity to…
Read MoreTech Tip – Translate Text On The Fly
If you are using Word in Windows 10 and you would like a really fast and easy way to translate text into another language and include it in your document, here’s how. – Highlight the text in your Word document that you would like to translate. – Right-mouse click and select ‘Translate’. – Select the…
Read MoreFeatured Article – Try Using Microsoft ‘Surveys’ Function
With surveys, quizzes and polls providing some valuable insights that can be used for marketing and content creation, we look at and compare the survey solutions that Microsoft and others offer. Surveys, Quizzes and Polls Surveys, quizzes and polls can have a variety of value-adding uses for businesses. For example: – To gather opinions on…
Read MoreApple Wants Rent Cuts With UK Landlords
It has been reported that due to the effects of the pandemic on the UK high street, even tech giant Apple is trying to negotiate a 50 per cent rent cut with its retail landlords. Reports The reports, which appeared in the UK’s Sunday Times, allege that Apple has asked the landlords of its 38…
Read MoreThe Start of Google and Facebook Paying For News Content?
At a time when smaller news outlets have been forced to close and big tech companies dominate distribution, the Australian Government may make the likes of Google and Facebook pay for their news content. What’s The Problem? The pandemic has made the media landscape in Australia a very bleak one with the closing of newspapers,…
Read MoreAI, Data Protection & The ICO
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published guidelines to help clarify how data protection principles apply to AI projects. The Document The guidance document (now a pdf available online on the ICO website) was produced by an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and is aimed at those…
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