News Archive
Ebusiness news archive from August 2005
| Free mobile number for businesses A new SMS text messaging service is offering all UK businesses a free inbound mobile telephone number and keyword to help firms get closer to customers with opt-in marketing. | |
| UK domains bigger than ever There are now more than 4.29 million registered domains in the UK – a massive leap of almost half a million since last New Year. | |
| Oz search engine scopes UK The leading Antipodean search engine, One Local Search has firmly set its sights on becoming the predominant local search engine in Europe. | |
| Fat pipe telly floated by Isles First, there was community radio. Now, thanks to broadband, the first steps are being taken towards community television in the Western Isles. | |
| Dot EU warning UK companies have been advised against using unaccredited registrars to pre-register the forthcoming .eu domain names. | |
| More cool tricks Every so often, we stop to admire the view and consider some of the things we take for granted. Like those smart web page tricks that we often wish we had on our site but never quite get round to doing anything about… | |
| Virgin joins 2Mb party Virgin.net has become the latest broadband provider to launch a 2Mb service and help make the new faster speed more like the norm. | |
| Traffic conversions The purpose of a web site for small to micro-sized businesses is the generation of business, be it indirectly via a brochure-type site or as a fully fledged e-commerce presence that allows customers to order and pay online. | |
| Handy code snippets Want to add a clock to your web page? Or inform site visitors when a page was last updated? Find out more… | |
| Which? pronounce on best broadband ISP Consumer watchdog, Which? has stuck out its neck and crowned Metronet as the UK’s best broadband service provider. | |