News Archive

Ebusiness news archive from January 2005
Address book nightmare

How can you find out someone’s email address without picking up the phone and calling them?
28 January 2005


WorldPay offer via Easily

Hosting company, Easily is currently offering customers the opportunity to set up web site credit card processing with WorldPay for half price.
21 January 2005


Optimising rural broadband project funded

How to maximise the benefits of broadband in rural areas like the Highlands and Islands is one of nine trans-national projects selected for funding by the EU Northern Periphery Programme.
21 January 2005


Beach re-cog mission

Speech recognition obviously hasn’t advanced in leaps and bounds since the topic was last covered here nine months or so ago.
21 January 2005


Given their blogging orders

Returning to familiar ground again for another update, a warning that blogging can be bad for your career prospects.
21 January 2005


Site map creation

“Easy to do business with” is a phrase we hear often. Its meaning normally relates to business practice and processes, but its remit should extend to our web sites as well.
14 January 2005


Broadband – phase two

In the beginning there was phase one: get broadband coverage in the Highlands and Islands as close to 100 per cent as possible. Now, with phase one largely complete by next July, phase two kicks in…
14 January 2005


You are here

As unsung heroes go, perhaps one of the least recognised and unappreciated elements of a web site is the site map. We take them so much for granted as part of the furniture that is often easy to forget just how important a role they play.
06 January 2005


Error reporting

On a cosmic scale they’re inconsequential, but don’t those ‘Send Microsoft an error report’ boxes only serve to irritate?
06 January 2005


Mobile broadband blurring

Alternative wireless broadband technology and 3G mobile phone broadband could soon be going head to head in the same space for market share, a new report claims.
06 January 2005


Happy New Year!

All the very best for 2005. Bliadhna Mhath Ur - From the e-business team
01 January 2005