July 22, 2008

Bloggers facing lawsuits

Blogging started around 2004, but then it was mainly a way of ordinary non technically minded people who wanted a piece of the web for themselves to express what they were feeling at that time.
But now blogging has taken on many different forms, these range from pro-bloggers to people who like to just leave the [...]

July 14, 2008

The perils of eating out

It is interesting to hear the other side of the story when it comes to eating out. Many of us occasionally have a meal in restaurant but sometimes this does not work out so fine and yet you simply cannot understand why.
Well a waiter spills the beans on what makes the restaurant world tick and [...]

March 3, 2008

Email abuse can damage your wealth

It seems that if you are in the habit of accessing your emails or taking a quick peep at what happening on your favourite social networking site while at work, then you could find yourself getting into deep trouble with your employers.
As in a recent survey of over 300 companies of all sizes in [...]

February 15, 2008

Niche market could be the key to success

Being a small business has its advantages no matter what your business does, whether it provides a service or supplies a product the basics are the same, in order to become a very successful small business you will need to explore your niche in that particular market sector and exploit it.
By doing this a small [...]

February 11, 2008

Ten business mistakes

Running your own business is a dream that many people hold dear to their hearts, so it is a terrible thing that when the opportunity comes along within a couple of years the whole thing be a failure and costing the owner a lot of money, how could something like this be avoided?
The main thing [...]

February 7, 2008

Office romances improve work

This could be the thing that all bosses have be looking for ever since a business started to employ people, and here hundreds of years later is the answer. People who have a romantic fling at work turn out to be better workers in the long term.
According to Serenella Salomoni, She said: “We discovered that [...]

January 25, 2008

Woman deletes company data

When a woman from Florida saw what she thought was her own job being advertised, especially as the phone number was the same as her bosses, Marie Cooley assumed that she was going to be fired so in order to get a bit of revenge in first she decided to visit the office on a [...]

December 14, 2007

BT caps business broadband

Some BT broadband users are finding that they are being capped for their use, despite having an unlimited usage.
But apparently it seems this does apply, as some users are seeing their connection speeds falling from 800 kbps to 50-100 kbps, but after contacting the service dept, who simply say that there must be a fault [...]

December 12, 2007

No kebabs means better air quality

China are so desperate to improve the air quality in Beijing for next years Olympics, that they have been around the city and decided to ban the street markets that sell food, in particular kebabs because they use wood to cook with this creates a problem of its own through the smoke given off.
There are [...]

December 11, 2007

The £10 million tip

Owners of a Chinese restaurant who were left a £10 million in the will of one their customers have a legal battle to keep the money.
Golda Bechal befriended Kin Sing Man and his wife over a period of more than ten years, after the deaths of her son and husband. They went on holidays and [...]

November 19, 2007

Business security issues by Microsoft

Concerned business owners can get the heads up on what is going on the field of computer security by hooking up with the Microsoft executives while they discuss latest Security Intelligence Report (SIR).
There are additional subjects that may interest business too, including the latest trends in software vulnerabilities, malicious software (malware), spyware, and how these [...]

November 14, 2007

AT & T offer security tools to business

Once again AT & T are in the news for all the bad reasons, this time it is to do with the fact that they are offering businesses the same services that they have been offering the security services and large corporations, which is being able to monitor employees, customers and other operations from totally [...]

November 8, 2007

Before you write a business plan

If you are planning on writing a business plan, there may be some things that you need to do before putting pen to paper:
Understand what a business plan is; don’t just write down your idea. There is help out there on the net where sample can be found.
Legal, sort out any legalities in order for [...]

November 6, 2007

Patronising a bad business

You know how it is there this local store that is very convenient for those last minute items or when you really don’t fancy driving to the out of town superstore, but the people that run this little store are rude, sell stuff that is out of date and so on, every town must have [...]