News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from June 2008
| Highland techno pupils win a trip to Boston An ingenious gadget to help clothes shoppers pick the perfect fit has clinched a trip of a lifetime to America for a team of young entrepreneurs from Nairn. | |
| Courting success with badminton bullets Technological advances are impinging on every sphere of life – and none more so than in the business world. | |
| £3.3 million contract to wipe out broadband blackspots A £3.3 million contract has been awarded by the Scottish Government to roll out broadband communications to the remaining remote communities still relying on dial up. | |
| How to work outdoors with a laptop “In the summertime when the weather is high…I’ll be outside with a laptop on Wi-Fi.” | |
| Shedding light on keeping safe this holiday season Right now is one of the most dangerous times of year for the small to micro-sized business. With the holiday season almost upon us there is a tendency to take our eye off the ball and start to wind down in readiness to enter full-blown holiday mode. | |
| ICT experts support region's young entrepreneurs Pupils at six Highland secondary schools are preparing for a week of 'hothousing' from next Monday (June 23), when they go to Fairburn Activity Centre to fine-tune their business plans for the final of the ICT Youth Challenge. | |
| BT searches for inspirational entrepreneurs A business grant of £20,000 is up for grabs as BT Business searches for the UK’s 20 most inspiring entrepreneurs in its Essence of the Entrepreneur 2008 competition. | |
| ‘Free’ mobile broadband in 2009 predicted Free mobile broadband could be less than a year away if broadband comparison site Top 10 Broadband is to be believed. | |
| Broadband decision for Barra provision Northbay on Barra is to be provided with broadband access through an extension of the Connected Communities (ConCom) network which is already providing 930 households with the service across the Outer Hebrides. | |
| Building an entrepreneurial culture in the Highlands and Islands Fusion, the organisation which encourages entrepreneurship in the Highlands and Islands, today held a business debate following presentations by keynote speakers at Eden Court Theatre Inverness. | |
| Virtual conference to help rural businesses go global Secondary school pupils and the business community across the Highlands and Islands are being invited to take part in an online virtual conference. | |
| Selling your business on the web Using the internet to sell goods and services between businesses has long been one of the goals of e-business. And today, finally, it’s fair to say that the b2b (business to business) sales channel is well established. | |
| Free money transfer service launched for UK’s Polish community Sendcashhome.com has launched a pioneering cash transfer service for the Polish community. | |
| Laptop maker to ship Linux in an instant As a tailpiece to our recent series on Linux comes the news that Asus laptops will ship this summer with a pre-installed ‘instant-on’ version of the open source operating system. | |