News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from December 2004
| Ringing in 2005 With 2004 on its last legs and a New Year waiting in the wings, now is a good time to start planning your web strategy for 2005. | |
| Season’s greetings On behalf of the e-business team, hearty best wishes for the festive season are extended to all our site visitors. Have a safe and fun holiday. We’re back with more e-businessnext week. | |
| The best of 2004 As has been our tradition for the past few years, it’s that time again - the awards ceremony. | |
| UK hooked on web shopping A record £4 billion is set to be spent online in the UK this Christmas as 18 million Britons abandon the high street in favour of the web store. | |
| Country level searching As the web grows ever larger and search engines respond by becoming ever more sophisticated, using country specific keywords will play an increasing role in web marketing. | |
| Yahoo! me too The war of the search engines continues with Yahoo! announcing the imminent arrival of the Yahoo! Desktop Search. | |
| Let’s get ready to tumble Broadband prices – already in unmetered dial up territory – look set to drop further in 2005. | |
| Schools first Schools and NHS facilities in the Western Isles will be the first users to receive high speed wireless broadband services. | |
| Blognote As a footnote to our recent series on blogging comes the chance to download a selection of new instructional QuickTime movies on the subject of blogging. | |
| Light shed on Christmas hampers Two reliable web sites, The Register and UK Broadband Users Group, are reporting that Christmas lights could seriously affect your broadband connection. | |
| Local Google bypasses Britain Google has discreetly launched local searches in several European countries. Unfortunately, the UK isn’t one of them. | |
| MSN Search Opinion seems to be divided over MSN Search and whether it’s a contender against Google. | |
| BB network building underway in the Isles Two million pounds’ worth of hardware has now arrived in Stornoway as work gets underway in building a Western Isles-wide fixed wireless broadband network. | |