Transform your business

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 2008, I salute you!

Here’s a thing, what travels at 2,000 miles per second but normally takes up to three minutes to arrive?

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.

Technological advances are impinging on every sphere of life – and none more so than in the business world.

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.

“In the summertime when the weather is high…I’ll be outside with a laptop on Wi-Fi.”

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.

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.

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 could be less than a year away if broadband comparison site Top 10 Broadband is to be believed.

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.

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.

Secondary school pupils and the business community across the Highlands and Islands are being invited to take part in an online virtual conference.

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.

Sendcashhome.com has launched a pioneering cash transfer service for the Polish community.

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.

Difficult as it may seem to believe right now, the era of the text message may be drawing to a close.

Computer magazine, Computeractive has launched Consumer Confidence Charter, a new standards mark for online traders signing up to a code of practice.

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).