News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from April 2007
| Free invention advice from HIE A new web site to match inventors to venture capital investors has been picking up publicity since its launch. But the subscription service may not be the best option for would-be innovators when HIE’s local enterprise companies are offering the same type of service for free. | |
| Robots take the manual labour out of spider training Manually submitting XML site maps to search engines is now outdated thanks to an internet-wide agreement reached by search engines. | |
| Destination web portal for Speyside launched Tourist operators in Moray and Speyside are looking forward to a business boost following the launch of greaterspeyside.com, a portal web site to promote the area. | |
| First virtual conference proves to be a winner The first virtual conference to be staged live over the internet by the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) website Learningworks has been hailed a success. | |
| Free trials of UK keyword research tool Search engine optimisation company, Wordtracker has launched a UK dedicated keyword research database and is currently offering free trials. | |
| Webcast to banish business blues Business in the doldrums? Lost your entrepreneurial spark? If you are reading this, the cure is right under your nose. | |
| Slackers go shopping and stuff Shopping web sites are cited as the major cause of internet slacking while at work, according to research carried out by the YouGov polling organisation | |
| Google challenges PayPal in the UK Hard on the heels of the launch of PayPal’s Website Payments Pro service earlier this month, Google wades into the fray by rolling out Google Checkout in the UK. | |
| Thunderbird 2 ready for action Version 2 of open source email client, Mozilla Thunderbird is to become available for download later this month. | |
| Dust thou clean too little? With the same level of acknowledgement to the seasons that’s paid by TV repeats and foreign soap operas, we are going to talk about spring cleaning. Specifically, an area that’s little considered most of the time in office environments – the computer. | |
| PayPal widen their reach in web payment PayPal UK has launched a new low cost web payment product aimed at small and micro-sized businesses seeking an affordable method of securely accepting credit card payments online. | |
| Making a point about updates How much weight and relevance does your web site traffic place on your content? And how do visitors know if what they are seeing is still up to date and accurate? | |