News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from May 2008
| Text but not as we know it Difficult as it may seem to believe right now, the era of the text message may be drawing to a close. | |
| New web shopping standard launched Computer magazine, Computeractive has launched Consumer Confidence Charter, a new standards mark for online traders signing up to a code of practice. | |
| Inverness to host event with master marketing director Marketing guru Gerald Michaluk is to deliver a talk on the role of the marketing director in Inverness next week at the invitation of The Chartered Institute of Marketing in Scotland (CIM). | |
| Rural broadband households overtake urban for the first time Rural areas of the UK are better connected to broadband than their urban neighbours, a new Ofcom report reveals. And the Highlands are among the best served in Scotland, with only Aberdeen achieving a higher take up rate. | |
| Outer Hebrides businesses boosted by online directory Comhairle nan Eilean Siar and Highlands and Islands Enterprise have developed what is hoped will be the most comprehensive online business directory of the Outer Hebrides. | |
| I got your number, I’m not gonna use it A useful thing I need to share is my discovery of a website called Who calls me? I stumbled across it by chance after missing 13 calls on my mobile from a number I didn’t recognise or appear to have in my Contacts. | |
| Ye old curiosity search engine Talking of curious things, keywords for Google Ads aren’t always what they seem. | |
| Setting off on the exploration of Linux Installing a new operating system is a major undertaking not to be taken lightly. In this final part of our series on Linux, we get ready to install Ubuntu. | |
| National Work for Home Day on Thursday This Thursday (May 15) is National Work from Home Day when up to five million people are expected to work from home across the UK. | |
| All about Linux – part two Having previously examined what Linux is and why we would want to try it out, the next step on our alt. Operating System odyssey is the installation. But which one? | |
| Companies and parents give flexible working the thumbs up Almost three quarters of small to medium-sized businesses are adopting flexible working practices, and support is strengthening for Government plans to extend flexible working to parents of older children. | |
| Youngsters to play star role in career planning It's called career planning - but not as we know it. A radical approach to the way secondary school pupils plan their future takes off this week in the Highlands and Islands. | |
| Home-shoring pilot could revolutionise contact centre industry Contact centre workers in the north of Scotland are set to work from their homes in a HIE-sponsored trial which could create new jobs and revolutionise the way call centres are run in the UK. | |