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The True Cost Of Hiring An Employee? Much More Than Their Salary

Original post by Jason Hesse via Forbes Working out the true cost of hiring an employee in your business has, historically, been difficult to calculate. A salary is easy, of course, but it is all the non-wage costs which are often elusive. Can you estimate how much tax will the employee cost you? What about the […]

Major banks ready their own mobile payment apps

Original post by Martyn Williams via PCWorld Several major national and international banks are planning to launch their own mobile payments apps next year. The banks would be major competitors to handset makers Apple and Google because unlike others pushing mobile wallet technology, such as mobile phone carriers and retailers, they already have an intimate relationship with […]

Berlin Hackathon Begin

By JEREMY TAMMIK I arrived safe and sound for the Berlin hackathon. Topics for today, three on the Revit API and three not: Traffic jams and too many cars Intro to functional programming in JavaScript Aligning multiple elements Render to PDF Displaying transient graphics in a preview control Berlin hackathon beginning Traffic Jams and Too Many […]

The future of big cities, the area of discussion at the London Smart City event

On Thursday 16th October the London Smart City event took place at the amazing Digital Greenwich office based in the innovate area of Greenwich Peninsula in which the area of discussion was the future of big cities around the world in this area. Around 50 attendees from different companies and backgrounds with a common interest […]

Five free mobile apps every IT professional needs

Original post by Franklin Morris via PCWorld Apple CEO Tim Cook recently proclaimed that he did 80 percent of his work on an iPad. While most IT professionals aren’t quite that far along in terms of mobile adoption, it’s clear that the landscape of IT is shifting toward mobile, even for some frontline IT tasks. Much of […]