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CategoriesArchivesOtis, our sponsored guide dogFebruary 26, 2010 – 4:33 pm
Otis, a black Labrador, is now puppy-walking. He’s learning to walk properly on his lead and basic commands. He’s also visiting different environments with his puppy walker so that he learns to feel confident in all situations. One for the plane-spotters .February 24, 2010 – 9:07 am The US Airforce “Boneyard” holds over 4,000 retired planes of all types & ages. You can now tour it via Google maps. How tweeting can put your home at risk.February 22, 2010 – 9:14 am Telling the world you’re on holiday via Twitter & Facebook is great – as long as you remember that bad guys read Facebook, too. A new website PleaseRobMe.com is warning social media users that posting their whereabouts can, in fact, advertise their home to burglars- at the same time as highlighting empty homes. A Smart use for Smart phones : take Chip & Pin paymentsFebruary 17, 2010 – 11:17 am Mobile businesses will soon have a new, smart way to take payments. Barclaycard has unveiled a system that turns smart phones into chip and PIN card payment terminals. The system will be piloted during the second half of this year and launched before Christmas. read more » It’s new, good for business, and boring : The Bank of CambridgeFebruary 2, 2010 – 12:18 pm A group of Cambridge businessmen are setting up their own bank, and emphasising it will be ‘boring’. They are raising £50 million to provide good old-fashioned commercial banking – loans to small businesses. read more » “Businesses of the future won’t have a web department or online strategy. It will just be the strategy of the business.” Dan Cobley, Director, Google UKJanuary 20, 2010 – 9:32 am Partly he’s wrong. His google-centric world view means he overstates the case. Some businesses will never move online. We’ll never buy our petrol on the web. Web Shoppers Get Protection : But What About The Shop Keepers ?January 8, 2010 – 8:33 pm Recently 1,219 web sites were closed down by Nominet, the body that runs .co.uk domains, on the instructions of the Metropolitan police. The Met were investigating the sites because the goods they sold were counterfeit or just plain non-existent. That’s great : web criminals should be caught, and web shoppers should be protected. But web shopkeepers need a little more protection from the law. The Google Phone : Why Did Google Bother ?January 6, 2010 – 9:08 am Google aren’t short of money. The world isn’t short of mobile phones. So why have they put time and effort into creating the Nexus One ? The media classify the Nexus One as an iPhone killer. There’s two problems with that. First, it lacks the killer app to make users drop the iPhone. There isn’t one really cool, useful thing we can do with the Nexus One but can’t do with the iPhone. Second, the iPhone is not a major player in the market. It has 17% market share. Even if Google takes most of this it leaves them as a bit-part player behind Nokia at 49%. The real reason is revealed by looking at Google’s big product announcement of last year, the Chrome browser. Taking payments without cheques is easy : use your phone.December 17, 2009 – 8:38 am UK banks plan to phase out cheques by 2018. This just reflects the reality that cheques are phasing themselves out : usage is down to 3.8 million per day from 10.9 million a day in 1990. It will leave some small businesses, especially those who travel to clients homes, looking for an easy way to be paid. Necessity is the mother of invention, and one invention that could meet the need is Square. read more » Is Social Media A Fad ? And does it matter for business ?December 10, 2009 – 5:33 pm If Facebook were a country it would be the 4th biggest in the world, just behind the US. Social media has arrived, and is not going to go away again. But is it as important for business as it is for our social lives read more » |
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You may remember that we are sponsoring a guide dog Otis, through his training with the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.