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Wi-Fi is drawing power from the mobile phone mast

Informa last year forecast there will be 5.8m Wi-Fi hostpots worldwide by 2015. Photograph: DG Jones From Norwich to New York, hotspots are pulsing on every street. A messy urban patchwork of Wi-Fi signals is being gradually woven into a blanket of coverage which may soon be equal to the signals pumped out by mobile [...]

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Jobs market improving, says recruiter

Jobs will soon be boosted by employers in the mood to expand their businesses, Manpower suggests. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP The UK job scene is improving after a bleak midwinter, according to one of the country’s largest recruitment agencies. Manpower found that employers were in the mood to take on more staff across most sectors as [...]

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Former treasurer at a collapsed bank: ‘Right and wrong became blurry’ | Joris Luyendijk

Why aren’t there more whistleblowers in finance? A former treasury manager at a major bank was prepared to meet for a chat. He is medium build in his late 40s, with a quick laugh. He orders a black coffee. The Joris Luyendijk banking blog Anthropologist and journalist Joris Luyendijk ventures into the world of finance [...]

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Incomes likely to dip again

Wealthier families have seen a larger proportion of their real income drop, according to research. Photograph: itanistock / Alamy/Alamy UK consumers face another year of falling disposable incomes as higher fuel and commodity prices push up inflation. The Centre for Economics and Business Research warned on Monday that family incomes face a further squeeze, with [...]

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Putin’s win is a hollow victory for a Russian free press

Khadzhimurad Kamalov, founder of the Dagestan weekly newspaper Chernovik, was killed outside his office in 2011. During Putin’s 12 years of power many journalists have died. Photograph: Str/AFP/Getty Images So, at least four more Putin years … and how many more dead journalists? Let’s look back on the president-and-then-PM’s first 12 years of power (using [...]

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Greek crisis: for the Chelsea set of Athens, it’s still a life of luxury brands

Designer outlets in Kifissia: the labels are what you expect to see in London, Paris or Manhattan. Photograph: Terry Harris/Alamy Greece may be facing years of austerity – even after securing the biggest sovereign debt restructuring in history last week — but take a 20-minute cab ride north of central Athens to the suburb of [...]

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Rail privatisation has failed – and the NHS is hurtling down the same track | Olly Huitson

British rail fares are now the most expensive in the world. Photograph: PA With the NHS “reforms” in full swing, the failures of rail privatisation provide important lessons. Britain has the most expensive train fares in the world. On the back of the McNulty review, the government is now set to push them even higher. [...]

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