Broadband has been great for most businesses, but it hasn’t been good news for everyone: Royal Mail – The growth of email, online advertising and paperless billing has caused the volume of letters sent to fall… and fall… and fall. Slow-To-Adapt Retailers on the Traditional High Street - Online competition has eroded their pricing power and
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The credit crunch hit many retailers hard. But some are fighting back, by capitalising on six key trends that broadband has unleashed: E-commerce – A Segment of Retail That’s Growing The traditional high-street may be suffering, but there are bright spots. E-commerce is growing rapidly, as consumers embrace the convenience, value and choice offered by online
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Planning to work from home? Here’s how to make your work-from-home day incredibly productive: 1. Set An Objective For The Day To Complete Sizeable Tasks A, B and C. Don’t Let The Work Day End Till You’ve Completed Them Use the threat of a delayed ‘clocking off’ time to pressure yourself to focus on the
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Every day, millions of people waste an hour travelling on packed trains and congested roads, at great expense, to get to offices where they’ll do work that could just as easily have been done at home. Your company’s employees are likely to be among them. It doesn’t have to be like this. Almost any company
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ADSL2+ to be available to 80% of UK premises by December 2011 FTTC availability: 5 million premises passed now, 10 million by 2013, two thirds of premises by 2016 FTTC maximum downstream speed to double next year to ‘up to 80Mbps’. Potential for >100Mbps in future ADSL2+ to be available to 80% of UK premises
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On the day of the London marathon, as several thousand people were running 26.2 miles of London streets, I was paddling the same distance on the river Thames. I was taking part in the London Kayakathon, an annual event that aims to raise money for charity. This year we raised over £20,000, with my contribution
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Microsoft seems to think so. It’s just paid bankrupt Nortel Networks $7.5m to buy 666,624 IPv4 Addresses. That’s $11.25 each. Why would Microsoft pay $7.5m for IP addresses it could get for free? The world is running out of IPv4 addresses, and Microsoft has decided to stock up, so that it doesn’t run out of
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This year’s April Fools jokes were a bit of a disappointment. Thankfully, some great April Fools Day jokes from previous years are still available online. My favourite has to be the 2010 Virgin Media story: Ferrets key to bridging the digital divide between cities and rural areas I have nothing but admiration for the marketing
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hSo salesman Ian Fordham has just received an order worth £125k over three years from Electrosonic. The order is to provide a WAN to five offices in the UK together with Cloud Internet Access. Electrosonic is a worldwide audio-visual company with extensive experience in designing, project managing, engineering and supporting AV systems and products
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Epsom College has chosen hSo to provide a 100mbps Internet Access service. The deal was closed in less than three weeks from initial contact using hSo’s online quote tool www.mplsquote.co.uk to signature of the contract
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