Category: Technology

Kevin Moreau, General Manager, Acronis UK & Ireland looks at the thing you can be sure of with computers is that, eventually, they will break down. When you’re busy running a company, ensuring that your systems are backed up is often the last thing on your mind. But with financial figures, competitor information and customer data all resting on your PCs, it’s not surprising that, according to a recent survey from YouGov, 40 per cent of SMBs would suffer severe impairment to business operations in the case of a system failure.

HSBC Commercial Banking has become the first financial institution in the UK and Europe to offer Business Internet Banking optimised for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch mobile digital devices.

Some of the UK’s wealthiest residents and most high-profile celebrities are being left out of the broadband revolution due to poor network availability in exclusive postcodes in the Home Counties, according to Top 10 Broadband.

Travellers are now set to get even better value and greater clarity on costs when accessing the internet around the world from their mobile phones or laptops from Vodafone UK.

BT Business has launched a new web-based accounting application, to replace the complex software blighting smaller firms, forcing their employees to work longer hours.

The launch of Xero, a new online tool designed for firms and their advisors, is supported by new research by BT Business which finds that almost 50 per cent of smaller business staff work extra hours to clear their current workloads, with 41 per cent admitting that they actually waste work time because of poor technology and systems.

In a previous post, we mentioned one way to manage your online brand was to set up a personal Web site. To do that, you need to register a domain name and pick a Web hosting service. The sheer number of hosting companies, however, can make selecting one more difficult. Here is a checklist of questions to bear in mind.

So you need to build a website and instead of paying a web design company you want to A critical part of this process involves deciding how you want your Web site to look. We talked to Sean Brown, interaction design director who oversees the layout of the company’s men.style.com and style.com Web sites, to offer some design dos and don’ts.

In a previous post Azadeh Ensha offered up 10 ways to design a good Web site. Unfortunately, even the best-designed site won’t serve its purpose unless it is scoring page views. Below are some ways to help maximize your site’s traffic.

The fiercely addictive BlackBerry – aka the “CrackBerry” – has become the mobile of choice for those wanting to access email on the go, and has been priced at a level that has put off all but the most dedicated.

BT have announced a new relationship with Starbucks Coffee Company to provide Wi-Fi across more than 650 Starbucks coffeehouses in the UK and Ireland. The first stores will have the service installed this week and the roll out will be completed by the end of the summer 2009.

BT today announced a high value business bundle offering broadband and calls to UK landlines, international destinations and mobile numbers for just £30 a month.

Mr Site Takeaway Website has exclusively partnered with web-based accounting application, KashFlow, to offer its 60,000 customers a 90-day free trial of the award-winning accounting software.

Users of KashFlow will also be able to purchase Mr Site Takeaway Website Standard and Pro versions at a special discounted price to celebrate the new alliance.

Whilst we are sure that President Obama doesn’t have to worry about the cost of using his now famous BlackBerry during his current european tour many business owners heading abroad for Easter do. With this in mind Ofcom has produced a video to help travellers keep their mobile phone costs down while travelling.

The video says that while wireless broadband dongles and smart phones are popular to use, downloading data can be very expensive when abroad.

Cloud computing (also sometimes known as Software as a Service or SaaS) has been widely heralded as a development that will fundamentally change the way businesses and individuals use technology. Historically, the software that enterprises depend on to do business (for example databases or word processors) has always taken the form of applications that users install on individual computers, paying a licence fee for their use. Cloud computing, however, turns this model on its head by making these applications available through the browsers we use to surf the Internet either for free, or for a monthly charge.

Leading UK web-based accounting software company, KashFlow, is now offering its software free of charge to small business owners that have already purchased a competitors product. The company say they’ll then build a bonfire with the boxes and CDs that they receive.