Category: Technology

How Peter King uses HootSuite to manage his Web design firm’s tweets.

A few months ago, I started to get overwhelmed by Twitter. My company does Web design, development, and marketing, so I was managing tweets not only for my business but also for my clients.

Microsoft, Google, and Cisco offer cloud e-mail services.

Web-based e-mail has been geared primarily toward personal use. Now, big players such as Microsoft, Cisco, and Google are trying to lure businesses away from on-site e-mail servers and into the cloud. We took the services for a test drive. Here’s how they stack up.

How does the new MinoHD Flip camcorder compares with the original?

The internet has dramatically changed the way we live our lives, allowing us to work, shop, gamble, watch TV and even date online. As a result Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have introduced fair usage policies and download limits designed to ensure all users experience a reasonable connection speed.

Unlike some other projects made by Google, the Buzz service received positive comments on its Twitter hashtag channel [#buzz] and who knows, maybe Google Buzz is something that will push the Google into right direction.

Data released from a leading broadband help and comparison website shows that 2009 was a strong year for O2 in online broadband sales, with BT, Virgin Media and PlusNet also making big impressions.

Following a huge change in outlook over the past 15 months half of UK SMEs are planning to move their computing into the cloud by 2011, but many are still failing to implement formal strategies to help safeguard their businesses, according to a report released this week.

Research by analysts at broadband.co.uk have shown that average broadband speeds grew by 22% during 2009.

Vodafone today announced that it will launch iPhone in the UK on January 14 and will be available for customers on a 24 month contract from as little as £30 a month.

With 65 percent of small businesses surveyed believe that Internet security is critical to their business, only 28 percent have formal Internet security policies. As organizations combat an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape and feel potential impacts to IT staffing reductions due to the economic environment, employees remain the strongest defense in protecting an organization’s information.

Mobile devices using the Android operating system remain a largely untapped resource for many businesses and yet have great potential to benefit and add real business value to the way staff work on the move. And with 3G networks offering high-performance internet connectivity, it makes sense for companies to consider using this technology and capitalise on the business-orientated tools, apps and resources it makes readily available.

BT has announced it is the first UK communications provider to offer unlimited fixed line calling packages for small businesses. The high value BT Business One Plan Inclusive packages offer unlimited calling minutes to UK landlines, UK mobiles, international destinations and 0845 and 0870 numbers for a fixed fee of £15 per month. This fee is further reduced to £12.50 per month if customers take the unlimited package on a VoIP line and on the face of it represents significant savings for small business.

A far off reality only a few years ago, today cloud computing really has become mainstream.
However, many small businesses are still unclear what cloud computing is and, more importantly, how it can benefit their business. Indeed, they are not alone, a recent survey of European IT Heads by Portio Research found that 56% were not familiar with cloud computing.

The online auction site eBay has settled a lawsuit with the founders of Skype, ending uncertainty over the future of the internet phone company.