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%, […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]