News Archive

Ebusiness news archive from January 2006
eBay: how to sell 3

Perfecting your sales pitch is as important on eBay as anywhere else buyers and customers interact. Getting it right first time and being easy to do business with are crucial if your new sales channel on the auction web site is to be a success.
26 January 2006


Europe needs more fibre in broadband diet claim

Laying fibre optic cables between customers and their local exchange is the only way to achieve 100 per cent broadband coverage it has been claimed.
26 January 2006


eBay : how to sell 2

Before delving into the technicalities of setting up a seller’s account on eBay, let’s hear the first-hand findings of a new seller. Me!
23 January 2006


Vision on

Compatibility is always an issue when setting up a video conference over broadband, especially at short notice. Ideally, the technology required to ensure all the participants have acceptable sound and vision should be as unintrusive and straightforward as possible. Hassles configuring systems to use a common platform only get in the way of the real business at hand: the meeting.
22 January 2006


Analyse your bandwidth usage

Worried about being caught out by your broadband’s bandwidth allowance? A free software download may be the answer to your budget fears.
13 January 2006


Dual phone your existing handset

Obtaining the flexibility of voice over IP and regular landline calls from one handset need not involve splashing out on new phones after all.
13 January 2006


eBay: how to sell

After much build up of late, finally, we can unwrap the first of our series on eBay selling…
13 January 2006


New VoIP handset on the way

Thinking of ditching the geeky microphone headset for a VoIP handset? You may wish to hang off a little longer…
10 January 2006


Online tills working flat out

Christmas and the post 25th sales have helped make December the best so far for UK retail websites.
10 January 2006


100 per cent community access to broadband achieved

The commitment by the Scottish Executive to roll out broadband to every community by the end of 2005 has now been fulfilled they say.
10 January 2006


What’s in store in 2006

Another tradition round these parts to help fill that awkward New Year news slot is the “look forward to the year ahead” story.
03 January 2006


The 2005 rewound awards

A continuum of gradational culture change through time representing the unbroken development of a single culture. Or, as we prefer to have it, it’s a tradition of long-standing.
03 January 2006