Although unemployment levels have remained high due to the ongoing economic downturn, people with specific skills are still in high demand. For smaller businesses, attracting talent has always been difficult, particularly if candidates have to be drawn from the local … Continued
Have you ever spent the train journey into work staring aimlessly into space? Reading newspapers or pulp novels maybe? Or simply worrying about that urgent document you need to get as soon as you arrive in office? There is a … Continued
A survey reported in Forbes magazine has confirmed that Cloud services are a massive hit with small businesses. According to the published results, 53% of Amazon Web Service (AWS) users classify as SMEs. Cloud computing, particularly Amazon’s high availability AWS … Continued
Hosted desktops allow you to create a standardised computer system for all of your staff which can be accessed over the Internet. This means your staff can be productive anyplace, anytime, as long as they have an Internet connection. Whilst … Continued
With all the industry hype surrounding Cloud computing, many businesses wonder what it is that they need to get on board – but there is a good chance that your business is already part of the Cloud revolution. Does your … Continued
The UK’s domain name administrator, Nominet, has finally shelved plans for the shorter .uk web address format. Under the plans, businesses would have been able to buy condensed website addresses, becoming mysite.uk instead of the current mysite.co.uk format. The decision … Continued
Note taking app provider Evernote has recently emailed its entire user base to advise them of a successful hacking attempt. Because the criminals managed to gain access to user login details (and much more), Evernote has reset the password of … Continued
Yahoo has recently contacted all of their staff to announce a ban on “flexible” working with immediate effect. The idea is intended to improve team collaboration by having everyone working together in local offices. However, Yahoo’s decision runs contrary to … Continued
Launched last month, Mega has attracted over 3 million users to its new free Cloud-based file hosting service. For many small businesses, the offer of 50GB of free online file storage will be attractive, as will the relatively cheap paid-for … Continued
According to a recent survey by O2, 77% of employers encourage staff to work flexibly (including offsite). However, only 19% of employees corroborate this statistic, suggesting that flexible working provisions are not well advertised to staff. The O2 survey comes … Continued
