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Follow this guide and work out exactly how much you need to save for a comfortable retirement. By  Neil Faulkner How much money do you need to leave work forever? (Image: Fotolia) I'm going to give you one method for estimating how much you, personally, need to be putting aside for a comfortable retirement. You'll need to set aside a fair bit of time to do this, so bookmark this page for later if necessary. Step 1 - calculate your outgoings Many costs, such as raising children and paying the mortgage, should be long paid for when you go into retirement. Other costs, such as greater heating and water bills, and buying more newspapers, might go up. Some retired people need a fraction of what they needed when they were younger and others, particularly if they decide to travel a lot, need more. Use  this quick budgeting tool  to help you estimate what your outgoings will be when you're retired. Just enter all the amounts in toda...

By  Felicity Hannah 2012 is the year of the tourist. It’s all coming to Britain this summer;  we've  got the Olympics, the Jubilee celebrations and even World Pride. As a Brit, it makes my heart swell with patriotic fervour. As a taxpayer, I’ll admit I’m a bit worried. The Olympics alone is costing over £9.3 billion, which is hardly small change in the current financial climate. This summer: London 2012 Olympics (l), Diamond Jubilee (c) and World Pride (r). In fact, a recent report from Parliament’s spending watchdog warned that the overall cost is likely to be around £11 billion, although the Government disputes that figure. British benefits It’s not all bad, of course. Most of that money has been spent with UK-based businesses , which has means considerable economic benefits for struggling smaller firms. According to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, British companies have won almost £6 billion of contracts for building and suppl...

Motorola Mobility smartphones face US import ban Crony trading ltd Uk services RELATED QUOTES Symbol Price Change MSFT 29.27 -0.45 A US commission sided with  Microsoft  (NasdaqGS: MSFT - news) by moving to ban the import of Android-powered Motorola (NYSE: MOT - news) smartphones based on patent infringement complaints by the software colossus. The ruling issued by the  International Trade Commission  ( ITC (Berlin: IQ9B.BE - news) on Friday will take effect in late July if  President Barack Obama  does not overrule it. "The Commission has issued a limited exclusion order directed to the infringing products of Motorola and has terminated the investigation," the ITC said in a written decision. The ITC ruling put pressure on  Motorola Mobility  to cut a licensing deal with Microsoft instead of risk product shipping delays that could stem from removing the pate...

Sony Vaio T13 Ultrabook and other great new gadgets Sony Vaio T13 Ultrabook The Ultrabook market is already becoming a crowded place, but this is Sony's first crack at it. Sony's Vaio T13 is 17.8mm thick, weighs approximately 1.6kg and has a claimed battery life of up to nine hours. Inside is an Intel Core i3 processor, 4GB RAM and a 320GB hard drive, with the latter supported by a 32GB solid-state drive that is not used for file storage but instead improves the performance of the hard drive. Add to that a 13-inch screen with a 1366x768 resolution and you get a smart-looking laptop that could shake up the lower-end Ultrabook competition. Availability: TBA Price: TBA Samsung Galaxy S3 The king is dead! Long live the king! Samsung's Galaxy S2 was the phone that established Samsung as a serious threat to Apple's smartphone dominance. But it's been out a while now and has lately been overtaken by new releases from the likes of HTC. No longer. Sams...