George Soros: rocketing oil price is a bubble

Speculators are largely responsible for driving crude prices to their peaks in recent weeks and the record oil price now looks like a bubble, George Soros has warned. The billionaire investor’s comments came only days after the oil price soared to a record high of $135 a barrel amid speculation that crude could soon be [...]

Alistair Darling’s peace offer in attempt to halt the tax exodus

Alistair Darling will this week offer an olive branch to multinationals in an attempt to head off a threatened corporate exodus from Britain. He will try to defuse a row over the taxation of foreign profits by insisting Treasury reforms are not intended as a revenue-raising measure. Darling will also indicate that the government is [...]

The Entrepreneur and the Virtual Assistant

Fast becoming a symbiotic relationship, the Entrepreneur and the Virtual Assistant is an awesome combination. At Equilibrium, we are acutely aware of this and demand the highest quality and diligence from ourselves when assisting our customers. Many Entrepreneurs have effectively used the administrative services at that Virtual Assistants provide at Equilibrium to enhance the progress [...]

The Future: People Networks

Dave Morgan’s eloquent article on the changes in the online world encapsulates much of what small business worry about on a daily basis asking the questions “will this approach work?” In his article, Morgan traces the evolution of online advertising where you can glean the potential for your specific business requirements. He states that “we’ve [...]

The importance of being on Google Search

Gord Hotchkiss in his article at ‘outofmygord’ discusses his ‘Wedding Night Advice to Yahoo and Microsoft’. He comments that “now that there seems to be some sort of union in Yahoo’s future, blessed or otherwise, I felt the urge to pass along some advice to whoever the happy couple might be. For, in all this [...]

Android Phones Waiting In The Wings

Georgina Prodhan and John Bowker writing for Reuters state that “British chip designer ARM will demonstrate a prototype of Google Inc’s Android mobile phone platform in action next week at the world’s biggest wireless fair, a source close to the company said. It was not immediately clear on Thursday what the working model that ARM [...]

Spread your Risk through Multi-Sourcing

Glenn Warren at Accountancy Age writes that outsourcing to not one but several suppliers can spread risk and offer greater choice. These are some things that we have been aware of for sometime at Equilibrium and we understand the importance of a good and effective service that would enable companies and individuals business venture greater [...]

So What Is a Virtual Assistant?

At Equilibrium, we are very keen to have clear and visible working systems and service delivery for our clients. Let’s begin with the question; So what is a Virtual Assistant? To put it simply, Virtual Assistants (VA’s) are individuals or groups of people who are experts and are highly skilled, providing the necessary administration or secretarial [...]

7 Ways to Get Green and Save Money

7 Ways to Get Green and Save Money is an excellent set of seven suggestions by Robert Mitchell at Computerworld that will help and enable any struggling business or individual in doing their bit to reduce their carbon print. Of course these suggestions are primarily for businesses in U.S, but can also be applied to [...]

The 8 Most Dangerous Consumer Technologies

Companies can’t depend wholly on policy to maintain the level of security they need as reported by Computerworld; their comprehensive look at eight areas of possible problems is commandable and a warning to any working within these programmes. Areas covered are: Instant messaging; Web mail; Portable storage devices; PDAs and smart phones; Camera phones; Skype [...]