By Robert Steadman on October 14, 2011
Hot water and central heating costs are unavoidable and becoming increasingly expensive but they can easily be managed keeping the size of your bills to the bare minimum. There are many ways to achieve lower fuel bills ranging from changing your fuel supplier to the installation of cavity wall and loft insulation. But, [...]
Posted in Cost Management, Critical Infrastructure, Environmental Issues, Equipment & Operational Resources, Ideas and Innovation, Intellectual Property, Mining, Energy and Utilities, Natural Resources, Product Launches, Product Research and Development, Technology, The Work Place, UK, Utilities, Waste Management | Tagged diesel, electricity, electricity bills, gas, lower fuel bills, save money, utility bills |
By John Walker on September 30, 2011
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the re-launch of its Free Software Directory at directory.fsf.org. The Directory lists over 6,500 programs that are free for any computer user to download, run, and share. It was first launched nearly a decade ago, but the new version brings a [...]
Posted in Arts, Sports and Recreation, Business Software, Business Support Services, Charities, Computer Services, Cost Management, E-commerce, Education, Equipment & Operational Resources, Fashion, Trends and Memes, IT and Telecommunications Services, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Internet Services, Media and Creative Services, North America, Not-For-Profit Sector, Political and Economic Philosophies, Procurement, Product Launches, Production, Professional and Business Services, Publishing, Reporting, Technology, Worldwide | Tagged data-mining, Free Software Directory, Free Software Foundation, FSF, GNU/Linux, John Sullivan, MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki, Yaron Koren |
By John Walker on August 24, 2011
What makes business rock?
Bill Roedy, the man behind MTV, gives a preview of his new business memoirs documenting how he built a single channel into the largest media network in the world.
Its global audience is the envy of the world’s media corporations, with a network which included 200 channels and 200 digital properties in 175 [...]
Posted in Arts and entertainment, Brands, Expansion, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Franchising Out, Ideas and Innovation, Market Research, Music Production and Publishing, People and Players, Product Launches, Project Management, Reputation, Sales, Mergers & Acquisitions, Startups, Television and Radio Broadcasting, Worldwide | Tagged Bill Roedy, biographies, book, MTV, What Makes Business Rock: Building the World’s Largest Global Networks |
By John Walker on August 19, 2011
As an alternative loyalty scheme to rival supermarkets signs up more than 500 businesses in just six months, a local business owner under the scheme, Heather Copley talks about her experience running a small business in today’s climate.
A shopping loyalty scheme set up to get people out of supermarkets and into farm shops is gathering [...]
Posted in Advertising and Marketing Services, Agriculture, Farming and Farming Support Services, Contact Management, Customer Retention, Customer Reward Programmes, Deals and Agreements, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Food, Drink and Tobacco Retail, Food, Drink and Tobacco Wholesale, Goodwill, Ideas and Innovation, Marketing, Marketing Facilities, Outsourcing, Product Launches, Sales, Startups, UK, West Yorkshire | Tagged audio podcast, Farm shop, Farmer Copleys Farm Shop, Heather Copley, Ice scheme, loyalty points, loyalty scheme, start-up advice, take on the big boys |
By John Walker on January 19, 2011
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, today announced the launch of its cloud infrastructure to provide customers with a European based infrastructure for their cloud-based data footprint.
“Our US-based Rackspace cloud has already been hugely successful, with over 100,000 customers globally now taking advantage of our hosted cloud [...]
Posted in Business Software, Critical Infrastructure, E-commerce, Europe, Expansion, Fashion, Trends and Memes, IT and Telecommunications Services, Ideas and Innovation, Information Security, Information Technology, Procurement, Product Launches, Technology, UK | Tagged Cloud Computing, Rackspace |
By John Walker on November 23, 2010
The UK general insurance industry standards and IT body Polaris U.K. Ltd have launched a new website for their customers.
Polaris Managing Director Martin McLachlan commented, “Over time we have built up a number of discrete and different looking websites for our customers, covering Polaris and ProductWriter, standards and imarket. Based on feedback from insurers and [...]
Posted in Business Software, Equipment & Operational Resources, Financial Services, IT and Telecommunications Services, Insurance, Market Research, Procurement, Product Launches, Product Research and Development, Technology, UK | Tagged imarket, Polaris U.K. Ltd, ProductWriter |
By John Walker on October 19, 2010
Advanced Computer Software Group plc (Advanced) has announced the launch of www.csr10.com, a ‘one stop shop’ resource about the Comprehensive Spending Review.
The Comprehensive Spending Review 2010, which will be announced on 20 October 2010, will deliver significant public sector budget cuts, forcing Government departments and public sector organisations to make spending cuts of up to [...]
Posted in Economic Cycles, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Notable Dates, Politics & Legislation, Procurement, Product Launches, Public Sector, Public Spending and State Aid, Taxation, UK | Tagged Advanced Computer Software Group plc, Cloud Computing, Comprehensive Spending Review, Cost Cutting, cuts, finance, government reviews, trends |
By Robert Steadman on April 2, 2010
Form and function have seamlessly merged in the development and introduction of an utterly new and unique Barwares device, the Ice Jacket.
Designed to conveniently and attractively encase a manufacturer’s bottle of spirits in ice for service and presentation, the Ice Jacket — developed and introduced by The Ice Jacket accommodates a wide range of manufacturers’ [...]
Posted in Accommodation, Bars, Catering, Fashion, Trends and Memes, Ideas and Innovation, Party Planning, Product Launches, Worldwide |
By John Walker on March 9, 2010
Barclays has become the first bank in Europe to launch commercial contactless debit cards to its business customers. From March, all Barclays Business customers receiving new or re-issued cards will find that they come with contactless technology as standard. This enables them to pay for low value transactions by holding the card over a reader, [...]
Posted in Debit and Credit Card Merchant Services, Financial Services, Ideas and Innovation, Product Launches, Sales, Technology |
By John Walker on December 3, 2009
Processors could become smart enough to let PCs use “vision” to interact with people.
Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or “single-chip cloud computer,” that rethinks many of the approaches used in today’s designs for laptops, PCs and servers. This futuristic chip boasts about 10 to 20 times the processing engines inside [...]
Posted in Business Software, E-commerce, Financial Services, IT and Telecommunications Services, Ideas and Innovation, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Product Launches, Product Research and Development, Production Facilities, Technology, Worldwide | Tagged Cloud Computing, concept chip, Hadoop, Many-Core Supercomputer Processors, MapReduce, Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC), Tera-Scale Computing, warehouse scale computing, WSC |
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