The pirates of Downing St
As the government presses the internet services providers to act hard and fats against those ordinary people who like to share files over internet, it turns out that the Prime Minister’s office in Downing St have a little piracy matter of their own to deal with.
It seems that the website of the Prime Minister has [...]
Business can learn from sport
There is some things that business people can learn from sports people, as they both have similar goals and need the same qualities but that is where the similarities end. Therefore, there are some things that sports and business people have in common.
However, are there any tips that the business world could learn from the [...]
The plan to save Battersea power station
A £4 billion plan to save Battersea power station before it falls down has been unveiled, but I order to save the power stations which is one of the most easily recognisable sights on the London skyline the sight is going to have to change dramatically.
The project will include an underground link, three thousand homes, [...]
IBM actually encourages employees to social network
Social networks and business are not very compatible, at least when companies find out that their staff are spending too much work time on their own social networking site. But some companies have seen the light and social networking could soon become cool at work again.
IBM have been experimenting with social networking and encouraging their [...]
Could search be finished?
For some people search is probably already finished, ever since the introduction of social networking it would seem that many people who just lurked around the internet searching for something interesting, would have used a search engine to find what they were looking for.
But ever since the likes of FaceBook, MySpace and Second Life took [...]
Space tourism by 2010
Another space plane has been announced which could start operating within two years, with the first flights in the Lynx craft taking a single passenger up into space for thirty seven miles sometime during 2010.
The cost for this fantastic voyage will be something in the region of £50,000; the trip will be very similar to [...]
Microsoft is about to get heavy with Yahoo
When Microsoft begin saying that they mean business, it is normally an advance warning that you are going to be crushed. So when an offer of nearly $45 billion is turned down, it can go one of two ways.
They walk away from the deal and let the company struggle until they are taken over [...]
A real challenge to Office
It would seem that for the first time in around ten years Microsoft’s Office Suite could have a real challenger for supremacy of the desktop. The challenge is coming from Open Office who has been in the ball park for some years, but never really in the game.
When Open Office version 2.4 emerged, it was [...]
The McCartney’s get down to business
The business of divorce is one that can cost millions of pounds for celebrities, the recent court appearance of the McCartney’s has shown us all that it makes no difference who is right or wrong the bottom line is all that matters and this case had a large bottom line.
The media had stood guard outside [...]
AOL to buy BeBo
America’s favourite internet service provider AOL is looking to buy the social networking site, Bebo for a figure of $850 million. This will give AOL access to the forty million or so members of the site. But Bebo is one of the largest social networking sites in the UK and will offer a buyer a [...]
March 12, 2008Google’s and Doubleclick get Euro approval
The merger between Google and the online advertising business Double Click has been given the all clear by the European regulators, stating that there would be no harmful effects on consumers. Originally the proposed merger had been opposed by Google’s rivals Microsoft and Yahoo, as they were concerned about the advertising.
However it was decided that [...]
The business of junk mail
Virtually everyone connected to the internet receives a little bit of junk mail, this is different to spam as these messages are sent to you because you have at some stage subscribed to the company’s list, this authorises them to send you adverts and offers.
Sometimes when you have had enough of them all you need [...]
Haggling good for business and life
Being in business doe not mean that you need to pay the first price for everything, indeed being in business means that people expect you to be hard to deal with; it is all part of the game. Of course it is embarrassing to start with, but this is money and the less you spend [...]
January 24, 2008Do Google and FaceBook have too much data?
It is a frustrating fact that whenever a person wants to sign up for an account with almost any social networking site or even an email account these days, that the information required by the service varies from the simple username and password to your entire life story. But should you decide to leave the [...]
January 22, 2008Text order to Pizza Hut
In the States it is possible to text a pizza, which is great, but maybe not always the most practical way of ordering something, especially as sometimes the text messages do not arrive that quickly, however what this does show is that there are businesses out there which are happy to embrace the new technology [...]
January 11, 2008Mind-bending customer service staff
When you call a customer service centre regarding some sort of problem that you have had with their products or services, the initial response is to rant and rave, but clearly this is not going to get you anywhere at all.
So what do you do if you really want to get your way from the [...]
Microsoft goes for FAST
Microsoft is making a move on the search engine FAST (Fast search and Transfer) it is said that the figures being put around are something I the region of $1.2 billion in cash, the deal will make things in the enterprise search industry which has been dominated by FAST, but there are other players too, [...]
January 7, 2008Disney restaurant bans kids
Considering that Disney has been built up on the dreams of children, it would seem very strange for the company to ban kids from one of its restaurants, but as from this week anyone under the age of ten will not be allowed in the Victoria and Albert’s in the Grand Floridian Resort and spa, [...]
December 28, 2007Amazon has a good Christmas
Considering that there has been much talk about the slow lead up to the Christmas rush, but that must have just been one side of the story, for despite the talking down of sales, some businesses have actually thrived and it is the online retailers who have done very well for themselves.
Amazon has announced that [...]
Google hire people for feedback
Imagine a job where you search Google and look at the results all day long! Well there may just be an opportunity at Google for just a position like that one. Sounds interesting!
Google are in a funny position at the moment, they are still riding on their successes of a few years ago, and are [...]