Smart Working – Ernst & Young
A fantastic documentary on the application of Smart or Advanced Working at two leading UK companies, Nationwide Building Society and Ernst & Young. Featuring Simon Palmer, Tax Partner at Ernst & Young – and Tim Plummer, Head of Business services at Nationwide Building Society.
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The eOffice Business Boost Campaign – Kickstarting your 2010
eOffice is launching the Business Boost Campaign to get you back on your feet with an upbeat and positive start to the year.
Find strength in numbers within ourstartup and SME community while we help you organise your infrastructure. You can choose from part-time or full-time office space, virtual offices and a range of meeting and conference rooms at half price or up to 3 months free of charge.
The package is supplemented by unique networking events aimed at helping you foster new opportunities in a new year.
We are running a series of co-working days to give you a chance to experience a trendy, comfortable, open plan working environment where you can:
- Concentrate on work (away from home or the noise of a coffee shop)
- Gain opportunities to network
- Spark ideas
- Gain new connections
- Do business
- And experience being part of the atmosphere of an office for the day!
Come and join us on one of our trial days below to get a full taste of the centre yourself and find your ideal package. Places are limited to 26 and each delegate will be allocated their own spacious desk for the day, with internet connection – so book now to avoid disappointment.
Apple goes green?
Macworld has spotted a new page over on Apple’s website highlighting their dedication to making their products as environmentally healthy as possible. We’ve seen this pitch from Apple within the past few years — they’ve recently slimmed down their packaging and started using recyclable materials in making their computers. It’s pretty interesting to see them making such a push on this issue, but then again it not only helps them sell computers (assuming they don’t have to raise prices too high due to the new policies), but of course helps the culture and the Earth at large in terms of making sure our environmental footprints are as small as possible. The new site includes information about the impact of Apple’s products both during manufacture and during usage, as well as reports on product performance, as well as a blog on what they’re doing lately. They also have a link to their recycling program so that when you’re done with whatever Apple products you’re using, you can make sure that those recyclable products are actually recycled.
Swift Consult Interiors
Swift.consult, the software producer, plans and implements intelligent services and projects in their entirety. Key focus is the software architecture and the development and integration of solutions based on commercial systems and open-source products. At the same time, swift-consult provides support when standard systems are being evaluated and integrated.
Honestech FOTOBOX USB device solution
Are you the resident office drone who is summoned to come up with multimedia presentations and slideshows at the last minute due to your mad skills with a computer? Then you might find the FOTOBOX USB device solution from Honestech to be your cup of tea – after all, it will help you create multimedia slideshows from photos, videos, music and narration – all this without the need for a computer software to function as an the editor of choice. This is made possible as the FOTOBOX comes with a USB 2.0 interface alongside an integrated memory card reader, embedded PC software within FLASH memory that will run on a computer without prior software installation. All photos captured by digital cameras are fair game for slideshows, as long as the memory card is inserted into the card reader slot. FOTOBOX is forward-compatible, playing nice with the yet-to-be-released Windows 7, and will retail for $79.99 as it is released next month.
Read the press release here.
Dalki Theme Park and Shop, Korea, by Slade Architecture
The Dalki Theme Park and Shop is 12,000 square feet of retail and entertainment space in Heyri, South Korea. Created in 2000 by Slade Architecture in collaboration with Ga.A Architects and Mass Studies.
Let’s Visit Tokyo – Shinagawa Train Station & Shinagawa Business Center
Shinagawa Train Station is like Tokyo Central Station one of the most famous place for many tourist visiting Japan or Japanese people. The 2nd train Station in Tokyo area to take the Japanese Shinkansen to Visit Kyoto, Osaka and so on, Shinagawa Train Station is a pretty busy place all week long.
It is also interesting to notice that Shinagawa Train station divide Shinagawa in half, with one side several very famous Hotels for both Japanese and foreign tourist, like the Prince Hotels (there are several) and at the other side of the station you have a huge business complexes where companies like Mitsubishi, Sony, Canon, Kokuyo, NTT, have their own office and building. And this is today this side of Shinagawa that we will visit, an interesting place where buildings meet trees.
Let’s Visit Tokyo Video 12 Shinagawa Station & Business Area, HDTV
source: AkihabaraNews
Philips LightFrame LCD Eases Eye Strain Thru Light Therapy
Philips designed the LightFrame 220XW9 widescreen LCD display in similar fashion to their line of Ambilight technology televisions with a peripheral lighting system which eases eye strain and perhaps the blues, using a cool halo of blue light similar to full spectrum lights used to treat seasonal disorder…
Unlike the Ambilight televisions, the 22″ Philips LightFrame 220XW9FW doesn’t change various colours to match those being displayed, but they’ve brought on an actual medical practitioner to vouch for the system’s utility against eye fatigue:
Dr. A. Johnson’s study concluded: “…a significant proportion of people performing computer tasks prefer working with Philips LightFrame compared to working without it. The common reason given for their preferences is that LightFrame helps them concentrate and makes them feel less tired and more rested.”
The 22-inch Philips 220XW9 widescreen LCD monitor is available in a piano white finish, features Philips SmartImage (system which changes contrast, colour saturation, response time and sharpness dynamically in relation to image), 2ms response time, and dynamic contrast ratio of 12,000:1.
Microsoft extends XP downgrade availability to 2011 – will XP live forever?
Microsoft has AGAIN made the decision to extend the availability of its Windows XP downgrade option. Reason this time? “Licensing issues with Windows 7 could cause some serious headaches for businesses that are still using XP”. Microsoft has also announced that XP downgrade option will be available for 18 months after the official release of Windows 7.
