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Google has unveiled a new look for its homepage in what is being described as one of the firms ‘biggest changes to date of its homepage’. The revamp, which has been rolled out to a few selected users, has been designed to showcase all of Google’s other products to users – without having taking up too much of the homepage.
Google Wallet — the system that lets you pay for goods and services by tapping your phone on a reader — could well arrive in the UK before this summer’s Olympics.
‘Companies everywhere are recognising that video has become the factor that can provide an edge over the competition’ – the wise words of James Leal-Valias, creative director at iStockphoto, writing for Business Matters a few weeks ago under the title ‘Design for Small Business: Integrating Online into Your Marketing Mix’.
The meting hosted and sponsored by Sunday Times Top Ten Tech Track company, Telemetry, produced by Hillgrove PR with the support of Start-Up Britain, was: “Is the Cloud a boon or bust for UK business?”. The welcome to this key UK event, being held during Global Entrepreneurship Week, was delivered with a clear vista of London […]
News that Adobe has ended support of its widespread Mobile Flash technology, which allows the viewing of around a quarter of small business websites from mobile and tablet devices in the UK, could cost SMEs a total of £500 million as their websites become obsolete to a significant percentage of web users.
At least there was an upside to the BlackBerry service outage – apparently drivers in some parts of the Middle East fond of using their phones while driving were, for the three days of the service outage, able to concentrate on the road instead of the content of a smart phone message, resulting in a dramatic reduction in traffic accidents. A recent survey suggests the same might be the case in the UK.
Research In Motion, the company behind BlackBerry, have announced that a selection of premium apps worth a total value of more than US $100 will be offered free of charge to subscribers as an expression of appreciation for their patience during the service problems which affected all UK users for three days last week.
Students at West Hatch High School, Chigwell Essex, have designed a mobile phone App for the London 2012 Olympics.
Recently, I have shifted the focus of this blog series away from my personal perspective on cloud computing in order to give some of our customers the chance to present their views on the technology.
David Rowan, editor of Wired UK has called for a boycott of hotel Wi-Fi against ‘rip-off’ service charges. In yesterday’s seminar at ABTA’s Travel Convention, Rowan called on hotels to abolish dated internet fee structures and offer basic internet as standard, charging only for higher connection speeds.
Salesforce.com has announced the launch of www.thefutureofsmallbusiness.co.uk, a new community, which focuses its research, insight and discussion on how small businesses can utilise social, mobile and open cloud computing technologies to become a social enterprise.
For more than two decades the Virgin brand has been associated with going through clouds, but today Virgin Media Business announced a new venture which is set to create their own and shake up the IT cloud market for business.
It may be wrong and it’s certainly illegal but one in two Wi-Fi users in the UK still access someone else’s wireless Internet network without permission, according to a new survey.
New research has revealed that nearly 80 per cent of large organisations are considering a ‘Bring Your Own Device’ policy as with the explosion of the iPhone and other smart devices, many cost-conscious organisations have thought “why not just let employees bring their own phones to work?”
Skype has announced the release of its Skype for iPad app giving users the ability to make and/or receive free Skype-to-Skype video calls from their iPad over WiFi or 3G.
