LOM Group Offers New Online Trading Platform

The LOM Group has launched OPUS, an online trading service which offers equities trading to its clients worldwide.  This new service is a result of nearly two years of working with clients and internal and external software designers, and enables LOM Group’s international client base to view their accounts in real-time and trade equities from around [...]

Upcoming: E-Business Development Seminar

Are you starting a new Bermuda business or organisation and want to establish a strong web presence, but you feel intimidated by all the technical jargon? Do you have an existing site and simply want to increase traffic and turn visitors into customers? The Bermuda Economic Development Corporation [BEDC], formerly the Bermuda Small Business Development [...]

Logic Expands Global Reach With New London PoP

Logic Communications Ltd, a subsidiary of the KeyTech group of companies, announced an extension to its global network connectivity by opening new Points-of-Presence [PoP] in London, United Kingdom and the provision of a new resilient, low latency communications route from Bermuda to Europe. The new interconnection points give Logic two major entry points into Europe [...]

Digicel Group Purchases Haiti’s Voila

Bermuda-incorporated telecommunications giant Digicel Group, which operates in the Caribbean, Central America and Pacific, has acquired Haitian mobile operator, Voila, from its parent company, US-based Trilogy International Partners, for an undisclosed sum. The transaction closed on Friday, March 30, 2012. The two companies will continue to be run separately. The Voila business is attractive to [...]

Project Icarus: How MIT ‘Saved’ Bermuda

At 12:26 p.m. on June 19, 1968 the asteroid Icarus, which is nearly a mile in diameter, will crash into the mid-Atlantic, just east of Bermuda. Its impact — the equivalent of a 500,000-megaton bomb blast — will splash out some 1,000 cubic miles of sea water and form a crater 15 miles across in [...]

Brookfield California Wind Farm Operational

Bermuda-based Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners L.P. announced today [Mar.20] that its 102 megawatt [MW] wind farm in Tehachapi, California, has achieved commercial operation. Brookfield Renewable and its institutional partners increased their 50% interest in the project to 100% in January 2012, and now own 274 MW of operating wind generating capacity in the Tehachapi region, [...]

Anonymous Threatens To Shut Down Internet

Hacker group Anonymous has declared they are shutting the Internet down tomorrow [Mar. 31] to protest the US Stop Online Piracy Act [SOPA], Wall Street and “irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun.” Anonymous’s threatened Saturday attack is not planning to [...]

New iPad Available In Bermuda

The new iPad is available in Bermuda, with Computer City making the latest model of Apple’s tablet available today [Mar.29] starting from $882. In order to get the product on its shelves quickly, Computer City purchased the models overseas at retail cost and imported them to Bermuda themselves. The Company said once they are able [...]

Bermuda Seeks Telecom Authority CEO

Government is advertising internationally for the first Chief Executive Officer of a new Regulatory Authority to oversee a programme of reform and modernisation in the telecommunications field. An advertisement placed in “The Economist” magazine today [Mar. 28] says Bermuda is seeking “an outstanding candidate … to lead the creation of the new Authority and implement [...]

Dr. Martin: War & Peace In The Nuclear Age

Bermuda-based futurist, philanthropist and humanitarian Dr. James Martin has addressed an Oxford University audience on the horrors of nuclear Armageddon, paraphrasing former Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev’s observation that the survivors of such a conflict would envy the dead. Speaking to the Trinity College Scientific Society on March 16, Dr. Martin — a one-time consultant to the US [...]

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