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This Thursday (May 15) is National Work from Home Day when up to five million people are expected to work from home across the UK.

Having previously examined what Linux is and why we would want to try it out, the next step on our alt. Operating System odyssey is the installation. But which one?

Almost three quarters of small to medium-sized businesses are adopting flexible working practices, and support is strengthening for Government plans to extend flexible working to parents of older children.

It's called career planning - but not as we know it. A radical approach to the way secondary school pupils plan their future takes off this week in the Highlands and Islands.

Contact centre workers in the north of Scotland are set to work from their homes in a HIE-sponsored trial which could create new jobs and revolutionise the way call centres are run in the UK.

Once upon a time having a penguin on your desktop and using the word, Linux, instantly marked you down as a techno geek. But not any longer! For today’s breed of Linux user is someone like you and me.

Falling into the category of stuff we already knew comes the news that the UK is a nation of broadband ‘speed freaks’.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) is holding a free workshop in Inverness to give business people the skills they need to transform their businesses and succeed.

“This laptop will self destruct in ten seconds!”

PDFs (Portable Document Format) are secure and easy to distribute digital documents that are ideal for the web or as email attachments. Fortunately, creating them for use on the web needn’t require any special skills or expensive software, putting the era of the PDF easily within the grasp of small to micro-sized companies.

Are we giving customers what they actually want, or what they say or think they want?

Creating professional digital publications such as e-books and e-zines from a PDF is now within the reach of even the smallest of companies.