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Business On the Move: Turn Your Car Into A Wi-fi Hotspot With Autonet Mobile
You work from home. You have no office. When on the move you are out of range.
I have been working with a marketing guru who works in an attic at home.
But when he moves, he needs to stay in touch. Now he can. This is great:
Holiday Insurance: Single Trip Or Annual Cover?
How often do you go on holiday? If you travel more than once a year, then you should think about taking an annual insurance policy.
This should reduce the cost per trip. But it may not cover going away for an entire year. There are usually a maximum number of days you can be away, typically 30 to 60 days.
Backpackers who want to experience the thrills of walking around looking like a turtle for months at a time while finding somewhere exotic to use mum and dad’s credit card may need a specific insurance policy.
It'll Never Happen to Me: When To Get Travel Insurance And How To Get It For Less
If you want to know what can happen to you when you’re overseas take a look at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) website. There are links offering advice on such foreign delicacies as: “avian and pandemic flu”, “terrorism” and “hurricanes”.
Anorak’s favourite alarmist section is called “It'll Never Happen to Me!”. It advises: “Things can go wrong on holiday. You could fall ill or have an accident; you could have money or luggage stolen; your visit might be cancelled or cut short through injury or illness; your family may need to fly out to be with you if there is a serious incident.”
Where To Get Your Car Serviced For Less
Drivers spent £10billion on servicing and repairing their vehicles last year.
The highest hourly rate for labour was in London (£89.78). The cheapest was in the Scottish Highlands (£60.01).
There is a north-south divide for the cost of servicing a car.
The 10 most-expensive vehicle-servicing areas are all in southern England, says the survey from Warranty Direct.
In contrast, the least-expensive service figure was found in Fife, Scotland - a mere £55.40 an hour.
The highest charge by an individual garage - at £183.30 an hour - was in the London area.
Good news for Scots, and for any Londoners who can tow their cars north...
via [The Midlothian]
The Precautionary Principle: Why You Need Motor Insurance & How To Find The Best Cover For You
Risk is what insurance seeks to temper. Everything we do in our lives carries a certain amount of risk, whether theoretical or actual.
Risk aversion is entwined with the ‘precautionary principle’ - if the consequences of an action are unknown, but are judged to be potentially harmful, then it is better to avoid that action.
But if no-one of us ever took a chance, would we as humans have achieved anything? Would you have allowed someone to put fluoride in your drinking water? Is it a good idea to sit inside a rocket aimed upwards to an unknown moon? Is it sensible to sit inside your car, a metal box containing electrics and a vat of highly flammable petrol that will be burnt when you stick a key into the ignition?
Own A Masserati Coupe And Escape London's Parking Laws
How big a carbon footprint does a clamper’s truck leave? More than a 4x4?
There are lots of trucks in London and one of them happened up a £80,000 Maserati Coupe owned by Bertrand Des Pallieres.
It is May, and the clampers hoist the car onto their flatbed truck and haul it off to the depot. There is now one less car on the road. One less pollutant. Only another 26million to go…
And the car sits in the pound for months. And now Mr Des Pallieres, who runs the £170million company SPQR Capital, tells us: “It took me some time to realise the car had gone. It must have been some time around late July.”
Sky's The Limit: The Cost Of Bottled Water On Airlines
Security at airports is tighter than Victoria Beckham’s smile.
Such is the way of things, passengers are no longer allowed to take water into the departure lounge. There is a cited threat from liquid explosives. So the airlines offer free water, right?
The Mirror takes a look and discovers that while Virgin Atlantic, American Airlines, British Airways and Alitalia make no charge for water, others are not so understanding.
You want water on Iberia? That’s £1 for a 330ml bottle. Same price on easyJet.
Money Round-Up: The Interest Rate Rip-Off, Reclaim Money On Utilities, Manage Student Credit, Cashback & Travel Style
Interest Rate Lag - You may have presumed that the recent hikes in interest rates would have automatically been passed on by banks to their savers. Well, according to the Telegraph’s Emma Simon, you should never presume anything when it comes to the banking establishment. She outs the institutions who have failed dismally in rewarding their savers, with Citibank the worst offender.
Reclaim money - We could all do with a little extra cash to help us cover the bills, the mortgage, the bank charges and that vital subscription to the Playboy channel, and the Motley Fool shows us how to (possibly) reclaim a tidy £200 from overpayments to our energy suppliers.
Student credit - As the new college year beckons, an army of fresh-faced freshers will be eagerly preparing for their new lives, stocking up on stationary and settling for dingy bedsits in the ghetto. However, a life of drink, drugs and the occasional lecture costs money. Luckily, the Guardian’s Laura Howard is on hand to offer some helpful advice on how students can keep their credit record squeaky clean.
Cashback - Alison Hunt back at the Motley Fool waxes lyrical over the benefits of cashback credit cards. What could be better than getting paid to spend? Although if you are, like me, rubbish with your money, than the benefits of a cashback credit card will pass you by.
Travel luggage - If your planning a late-Summer holiday, then Nicola Copping at the Times takes a look at the latest swanky luggage on the market, with some rather reasonably priced. After all, bags are the new shoes – or are shoes the new bags?
Insure Your Cross-Channel Trip Goes Smoothly With Our Tips On Motoring In France
Well, that’s that then. Our mini-summer, preceded by Biblical storms now looks to have been ended by yet more rain. At least the football’s back.
All this wetness is enough to make you hop in the car, jump on a ferry take a trip across the Channel, where the weather has been significantly more amenable. Kara Gammell at the Telegraph is luckily at hand to give us the lowdown on insuring your car in France.
Money Round-Up: Beating Facebook Fraud, Paying For Baby, Take The Bus & Manage Debt
Life Insurance - Death is as certain as yet another interest rate hike, yet when you do take your final leave from this polluted and war-torn planet, surely you’d want to leave your loved ones fond memories and a bit of cash, rather than hefty debts and years of future misery?
Yet, one in three of us is in danger of doing just that by not taking out life insurance. However, the Telegraph, thankfully is here to point us in the right direction.
Cost of children - Awww, don’t little babies look so cute with their button noses and their little teeny-weeny fingers? But turn them over and you’ll find a £180,000 price tag. The Indy’s Esther Shaw provides prospective parents with a cold shower’s-worth of financial facts on the cost of child-rearing.