News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from March 2007
| A greener search engine Search engines are not the most eco-friendly of things. Run on servers that eat electricity and produce vast quantities of waste heat, search engines have never claimed to be environmentally kind. Until now. | |
| Online coupon first Coming under the heading of “Why has no one done this before” is a new service that enables web site visitors to print out secure bar-coded coupons and vouchers to drive in-store sales. | |
| Mobile tariffs confusing Small businesses are spending more than they need to on mobile communications because the tariffs are too complicated. | |
| Quick navigation snippet Occasionally circumstances arise where we need to update our sites quickly but can’t afford the time to overhaul the site template to accommodate new pages or a new section within the main navigation. As a quick fix, why not try out the following code snippet to add a temporary quick navigation box? | |
| The burning question Backing up business-critical data onto CD may not be the fail safe course of action we would like to hope. For how long does a burnt CD last? | |
| Tourism and technology winners inspired by US visit The leaders of three award-winning projects promoting the use of technology in tourism and heritage have returned to Scotland inspired and ready for the task ahead from a visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). | |
| Toolbar building is easy. Communities are the challenge As suspected, getting people to download your browser toolbar is the difficult bit – building one is no problem. And here’s how. | |
| Transmission impossible I really didn’t want to have to write this. My wee pals at tvlicensing.co.uk have stuffed up. Again. | |
| Feel it in your sticky fingers George Bush and Tony Blair have a 99 per cent chance of falling in love and having a successful relationship. Homer Simpson and Marge Bouvier, meanwhile, receive a 68 per cent rating and are advised to talk things through when the going gets tough. These are just two of the startlingly accurate facts thrown up by Dr Love at lovecalculator.com. | |
| Advanced business search site launched A new local business search site aimed at the small to medium-sized enterprise market has just launched. | |