News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from November 2007
| BT leases sub-sea cable to bring new network to Northern Isles BT has reached agreement with Faroese Telecom (FT) to share part of a new fibre optic submarine cable being laid between the Faroe Islands, Orkney and Shetland and the Scottish mainland. | |
| Steganos launches free desktop encryption software With ideal timing on its part given CDs-in-the-post-Gate, security firm Steganos has launched a free version of its leading encryption product Steganos Safe. | |
| Remote working: the upside In a previous update we discussed some of the unseen pitfalls of working home alone over the net. Now it’s time for a look at the flip side of the remote working coin – the advantages. | |
| Orkney residents encouraged to register for broadband With exchanges due to be upgraded to receive Broadband in seven more Orkney communities, a project is underway in the islands to identify solutions for those who remain out of reach. | |
| Remote working: an insight Broadband – the era of high-speed internet connections – has in a great many ways been an equaliser for the Highlands and Islands. A digital Colt .45, if you like, that has overcome in many spheres of life the difficulties and disadvantages of geography and distance. | |
| Skypephone launched in a blaze of obscurity With all the hoo-haa surrounding the launch of Apple’s iPhone in the UK, a rival development arguably more significant received comparatively little attention. What passed most of us by was the launch of the 3 Skypephone. | |
| Working the net for business Business networking web sites are mushrooming all over the place it seems as enterprise finally attempts to catch up with the MySpace and Bebo generation. But are these Facebooks for business sites just a short-lived gimmick? Or could they be a genuine, new channel to drum up business? | |
| Clocking your broadband speed for free Broadband connection speeds are a major concern of Business Transformation’s users, according to the site stats, so a new web site that measures latency (time delay) will certainly be of interest. | |
| Virtual business audience urged to 'go ballistic' More than 200 people from across the Highlands and Islands took part in a business conference broadcast live today (November 8) over the Internet. | |
| Angels to meet innovators for mutual benefit An opportunity for entrepreneurs to share ideas with potential investors, is being organised in Inverness by the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) together with Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). | |
| Entrepreneur helps Highlands and Islands businesses go ballistic Over 100 businesses will virtually connect to an hour-long lunchtime Learningworks conference on Thursday, November 8, to find out how they can dramatically grow their business. | |
Greenspace Research Ltd. | Stornoway company develops Google plug-in Greenspace Research Ltd., a Stornoway-based spinout company from Scotland’s UHI Millennium Institute, and Green Building Studio, Inc. are offering previews of a new green building energy analysis plug-in for Google SketchUp at this week's Greenbuild 2007 conference in Chicago. |
| Meaning what you think you said Saying what we mean is vital to communication. As web site owners, getting our marketing message across clearly is the difference between success and failure in converting site visitors into paying customers. | |
| Resolve me or the mouse gets it, say online shoppers With the Christmas shopping season now upon us there comes unsettling news that nearly nine out of ten online customers experience problems with their transaction. | |