No retail growth predicted for 2010!.

Stephen Robertson, the director general of the British Retail Consortium, predicted no growth in consumer spending over 2010 and indicated the recent glut of positive updates from the festive season may represent a false dawn. Read Full Article

One thing that has hardly improved at all over the 25-year history of the mobile phone is the quality of voice calls. But now there's the possibility that we will soon see a radical improvement, one that make calls sound, in the words of one operator, "as if callers are actually in the same room". The technology that could provide that is called HD Voice. Read Full Article

• Introduction
• Feature Article - local services hugely important
• Consultant Availability
• This months offer
• Feedback from visitors

Welcome to another newsletter from PSS-Europe.

The New Year has started with a very active market and a lot of opportunities, including renewable energy engineers, MQ Websphere specialists and IT Fund Management project managers.

The telecom sector appears buoyant with opportunities opening up with a number of companies, interestingly mainly consultancies working for the big operators. For PSS-Europe it means an opportunity to consolidate current relationships as well as grow the business.

Meetings are scheduled in January with retail customers that will hopefully lead to project manager and business analyst opportunities becoming available. The outlook for retail does look difficult with no retail growth being predicted for 2010.

The aim is to continue building the business through the year. That said coming out of recession with growth at 0.1% that is going to be a challenge.

Calling local services "hugely important" to the future of the mobile user experience, Google product SVP Jonathan Rosenberg said Thursday the digital services giant anticipates location-based services will more deeply integrate with mobile advertising and commerce services in the "not too distant future."

If Google says so, it must be right, right? Read Full Article

Liz Drysdale - Project Manager
Available immediately

Liz is a multi-skilled, energetic and highly capable manager with a demonstrable record of delivering quality, technical and business change projects and programmes to time and budget. Accomplished in building and maintaining effective relationships to ensure successful delivery, Liz is a confident and able manager who enjoys high level responsibility. Liz is self-motivated with an excellent ‘can-do' attitude with the ability to work alone, as part of a team and as a man manager.

More information on Liz's career.

To book Liz's time
Tom - 07789 994994 or E-Mail Project Services

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Francesca Burfitt - Senior Business Analyst
Available from 01 Mar 2010

Francesca has over ten years of experience, gained in Corporate and Government sectors. She has strong business analysis and delivery management skills and is confident of working and conversing at all levels. She has full project lifecycle experience using standard industry tools and methodologies, including Enhanced Telecom Operations Map [eTOM], I.T Infrastructure Library (I.T.I.L.) and Prince 2 standards.

More information on Francesca's career.

To book Francesca's time
Tom - 07789 994994 or E-Mail Project Services

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Paul Searle - Senior Business Analyst
Available from 01 Mar 2010 (potentially)

A dynamic, creative and motivated business analyst with diverse experience primarily across mobile & fixed Telco environments and the utilities sector, with a strong focus on delivery and the ability to communicate articulately at all levels

More information on Paul's career.

To book Paul's time
Tom - 07789 994994 or E-Mail Project Services

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UK emerges from recession

Jan 26 2010

The UK economy grew by 0.1 per cent in the last quarter of 2009 officially ending the recession.

However, the GDP figures released by the Office for National Statistics were 0.3 per cent lower than widely anticipated.

Azad Zangana, european economist at investment bank Schroders, says: ‘Today's data indicates the start of an extremely fragile recovery, which has been highly reliant on support from fiscal and monetary policy. We estimate it will be at least three years before the UK returns to the level of output achieved in 2007.'

Absolute genius... can really see why bankers earn the big bucks.....