News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from June 2007
| The remote view from the street What Google does at local level in the States is inevitably rolled out later in the UK and elsewhere. That being so, you might want to consider a facelift for your frontage if Google Maps new “street view” is anything to go by. | |
| Relevant links count for more A fundamental part of web promotion is the trading of reciprocal links to and from sites in order to increase site traffic. Concentrating on links that will do us the most favours from a search engine perspective ensures that the extra site visitors generated are real sales leads, not merely consumers of bandwidth. | |
| Internet on the move still too expensive There is strong latent demand for mobile phone broadband services, but the majority of users are discouraged from using the web on their handset due to the cost. | |
| Public opts for HIE information online Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) announced this week it has decided to discontinue the practice of holding part of its board meetings in public. | |
| Here’s me as a cartoon Past experience has shown that online destinations intended for consumers quickly become ports of call for business too. Think YouTube, blogs and social networking sites such as bebo.com and MySpace.com | |
| Spiders in the bath No one knows for sure what attracts spiders into bathtubs. Perhaps if we did, there might be worldwide web lessons for us to learn. | |
| Picking up on VoIP Voice over IP is a term we have been hearing a lot about in the past two years or so. But how many of us have a proper handle on what Voice over Internet Protocol actually is and how it can save companies money? | |
| North woman cottons on to internet trading A north businesswoman has cottoned on to a new internet business opportunity following the birth of her first grandchild. | |
| Tree cheers for the virtual fax For various reasons – including the need to have business customers sign bits of paper – the fax machine hasn’t been killed off yet. Despite this need to deal with dauds of dead deciduous, small businesses appear to be railing more than ever against the expense involved. | |
| Study finds not all search engine results are the same Contrary to popular perception, search engine results are not largely identical. In fact, first page results from the major players in web search are dramatically different and overlap by as little as one per cent. | |
| Digital photography competition winners announced Last night, (Thursday 7 June) at a reception at Castle Wynd, Inverness, it was announced that Robbie Graham from South Queensferry won the Highland Exposure photography competition and he was presented with the grand prize | |
| Boss your site with software The web site owner nowadays can update almost all sites even if they have little or no technical knowledge. Find out how... | |
| Highland Exposure on show Entries for the prestigious digital photography competition, Highland Exposure go on show from today (Thursday) in Inverness. | |
| Mac in a pack Apple Macintosh fans in the west Highlands may be interested to know that the next meeting of the Oban Mac Users Group takes place next Wednesday (June 13). | |
| Learn coding and site updates for free Did you know it's possible to edit and create web pages with nothing more sophisticated than Notepad? | |
| IT headaches a real pain for small business Over a third of small businesses in Scotland are experiencing IT problems every day with serious consequences for productivity and profit. | |