Why Your Inbox May Seem a Little Less Crowded These Days
Posted on: Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 | Category: News category 1
Sometimes one industry’s bad news is cause to celebrate for … almost everybody else in the world.
Return Path, one of the world’s biggest email certification companies, says the number of emails getting through to inboxes worldwide dropped considerably in the second half of 2011. The decline in “deliverability rates”, from 81% to 76.5%, was the first such dip since Return Path began keeping track in 2004. Put another way, roughly 1 in 4 emails did not get through to you, me or anyone else from July through December 0f 2011
Google Drive cloud storage coming ‘soon’
Posted on: Monday, February 13th, 2012 | Category: News category 1
GOOGLE’S Drive, the search giant’s answer to Dropbox and Apple’s iCloud, is likely to launch soon.
The new product would offer users a large amount of web-based storage, which all connected devices could upload content to or access.
Services such as Dropbox and Box have been characterised as Silicon Valley’s hottest start-ups. They have capitalised on users’ desire to synchronise video, pictures and music across phones, cameras and other connected devices. Apple has also recently launched its iCloud service for its products.
for more; www.independent.ie/business/technology
and..Google Chrome: Taking the whole web, everywhere
Dublin ranks 26th in quality of city life survey
Posted on: Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | Category: News category 1
DUBLIN RANKS as the 26th best city in the world for quality of living in a list of 221 cities rated in a business survey. The capital remains in the same place as last year, down from 25th place in 2009.
In a related list, Dublin ranks as the 16th best city for personal safety, immediately ahead of Amsterdam. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1130/1224308333901.html?via=mr
ISO publishes Six Sigma performance-improvement
Posted on: Thursday, September 15th, 2011 | Category: News category 1
Six Sigma(1) a data-driven method for improving business and quality performance, has been published as a two-part ISO standard.
Six Sigma was originally developed by Motorola in 1986 to ameliorate manufacturing processes with the goal of 99.99966% (2) of products free of defects (i.e., 3.4 errors per million). Today, the methodology is applied in many sectors of activity by organizations large and small for all types of process and services to:
- Drive process improvement and make statistically based decisions
- Measure business results with a level of reliance
- Prepare for uncertainty
- Combine high returns and benefits in the short, medium and long-term
- Remove waste, defects and errors.
ISO 50001 energy management standard impacts the bottom line
Posted on: Friday, July 1st, 2011 | Category: News category 1
Substantial improvements in energy efficiency with positive financial impacts have been experienced both by a major company and by a small business taking part in a pilot programme to test the new ISO 50001 energy management standard.
These results were reported on 17 June 2011 at the launching by ISO of the new standard at the Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG), Switzerland.
ISO Secretary-General Rob Steele told the international audience of nearly 200 people attending the event: “Energy is no longer a technical issue, but a management issue with an impact on the bottom line and the time to address the issue is now.”
He cited the experience of two plants. One of them was a plant owned by a major company, Dow Chemicals. The plant reduced its use of energy by 17.9 % over two years. At the same time, ISO 50001 principles are also successfully implemented by small businesses as shown by the experience of the other plant, CCP, of Houston, Texas, employing 36 people. In two years, it achieved energy savings of 14.9 %, worth USD 250 000 a year with zero capital investment.