News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from July 2007
| Click on the dotted line BT is offering a limited free trial of their new web-based electronic signature service aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. | |
| Book-keeping auto-magically, says new web service A UK accounting software company is claiming a first – a web-based service for e-commerce vendors that automatically enters sales details into the books. | |
| Holiday email nightmares With thoughts of holidays in many minds at this time of year, a recurring factor is what lurks in your in-box on the first day back at work. Take two weeks off and you could easily spend an entire morning sifting through well over a thousand messages. It’s almost enough to make you think twice about leaving in the first place. | |
| The meaning of life What is a web site? And what is it for? | |
| Firefox increasingly spotted in Europe Firefox, the leading alternative to Internet Explorer, is now the browser of choice for one in three Europeans. | |
| Broadband - the state of the nation The UK broadband market is entering a new phase of competition, with prices set to fall, sweeteners on offer to capture new customers and broadband usage soaring. | |
| Wiki minute, what's that? As web site owners we like to think that we are on top of our web presence. We know our own site inside out and feel we are familiar with the vast majority of places elsewhere on the net that we are listed. But occasionally we can be taken off-guard and stumble across a new in-bound link completely by chance… | |
| Beware of horses ahead As we know from the Classics, getting rid of Trojan Horses can be a real pain. Today, finding one on your desktop can be equally as awkward. Fortunately, for us, the virtual strain of Trojan Horse virus isn’t anything like as deadly as the surprise package of Greek legend. | |
| Transforming e-business Over the last week or two Getting into e-business has changed. We’ve now joined forces with Broadband for business to become 'Business Transformation'. The merger also sees Business Transformation hooking up with another new HIE network site, HIE Business, our business advice and resource centre. | |
| End not the means is interesting This may to many ears sound like heresy. Technology is boring. | |
| Global broadband lines continue to grow The number of individual broadband lines in the world is now nearing 300 million, with 17.4 million extra lines coming online in the first quarter of 2007 alone. | |
| North wholesaler has its ear to the ground One of Wick's longest-established businesses has proved it has its ear to the ground by introducing a ground-breaking, high-tech computerised system that automatically guides staff to the right area of its warehouse. | |
| Highland youngsters design a trip to the future Five pupils from Buckie High School made it their business to succeed when they gave a winning presentation to judges in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Youth Challenge on Friday. | |