News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from December 2005
| Merry Christmas Best wishes for the festive season from us all. Have a restful and peaceful holiday. And to get us in the Christmas mood… | |
| Setting up shop on eBay Once we get the festive season out of the way, we are due to embark on a how to guide to setting up your stall on eBay. | |
| All I want for Christmas The number one Christmas pressie this year isn’t an Xbox, PSP or even an iPod – it’s broadband. | |
| Alternative Office update OpenOffice, the open source alternative to the MS Office suite, has had a major overhaul. | |
| Broadband hard buy – epilogue Sometimes you start things, only to wish you hadn’t. Well, this story of one broadband customer’s attempts to get onto the high-speed information highway seems to have more legs than a centipede. But, finally, the end is in sight. | |
| Online shoppers take it to the wire Online shoppers are testing the mettle of web retailers by hitting sites hard with a rush of last minute orders. | |
| Xmas e-business competition Business technology web site, ZD Net is currently running a “12 days of Christmas” competition with some rather attractive high tech prizes on offer. | |
| Is Sky missing a trick? This is what many people in rural areas may be asking themselves with the pre-launch unveiling of Sky TV’s broadband service. | |
| BT excited over new generation products BT are whipping themselves into a lather with the announcement of their next generation broadband services. | |
| Broadband – the hard buy/contd. How difficult can it be to get a broadband service provider to sell you a connection? | |
| Selling on eBay Want to hear something really creepy? | |
| Youth Challenge to showcase ICT talent If University Challenge is a showcase of future politicians and household names, then the next generation of e-business entrepreneurs can be spotted soon in the ICT Youth Challenge 2006. | |
| One to watch out for A friend whose local exchange was broadband-enabled in the past month was on the phone to me “spitting nails”. | |
| Isles get Connected Communities The first retail orders for Hebrides.net, the broadband service provider launched by Connected Communities, are now being taken from Western Isles consumers and businesses. | |
| Invention thinking event Do you have an inventive streak? Do you dream of inventing the next ‘killer’ application or must have device? | |