News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from November 2005
| 20+ Mbps services could be theoretical The last few days have seen a number of internet service providers announce new broadband services of 20mbps or more. But is it all smoke and mirrors? | |
| Xmas rush is rewarding and challenging The Christmas spending spree is set to be both a busy and challenging one for online retailers this year. | |
| BT pledge a billion for 21st Century Scotland Scotland is not being left behind in BT’s network overhaul, with the announcement that the telecommunications company will be investing £1 billion over the next five years. | |
| Web stats latest target of Google Web statistics – the overview of a web site’s traffic flow – are usually one of two things – too ‘raw’ as to be meaningless, or not quite detailed enough to draw firm conclusions to improve site design and visitor conversion. | |
| Google web stats service applauded The launch of a free web site traffic report service by Google has been welcomed by the newly-appointed Scottish co-ordinator of the Web Analytics Association (WAA). | |
| Broadband on the up and up The growth in broadband connections in the UK is continuing to grow healthily while costs for the end user continue to fall and bandwidth speeds rise. | |
| In-box saver for blog subs When your email in-box is already bursting at the seams, the last thing you want to do is generate more messages by adding RSS/XML subscriptions. | |
| ISPs go after bandwidth
AOL has just become the latest broadband service provider to reveal a new access deal that includes a free router. But why are internet service providers now switching away from free modems that are cheaper for them to supply? | |
| Check mirrors and back up Less than a fifth of the UK’s small businesses bother to keep an off-site data back up even though the vast majority acknowledge they could not function if the worst were to happen. | |
| Saving your bandwidth allowance
With most bar the top end broadband access deals featuring some kind of monthly bandwidth allowance, monitoring data transfer is essential for many small to micro-sized businesses striving to keep costs down. | |
| Tasty broadband deals reign One of the advantages of being a late adopter is that by the time you get round to introducing the technology the bugs have been ironed out and competition among providers is fiercer. | |
| Fusion focus on The Rural Entrepreneur Fusion, the membership company for entrepreneurs and innovators, is holding its annual conference, The Rural Entrepreneur, in Aviemore Highland Resort later this month. | |
| Filling in the email blanks A fact of life in running a web site is the need for compromises, especially in debates involving function, design and web hosting limitations. | |