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It was with great sadness that I heard the news this morning reporting Steve Jobs’ passing. Regardless of whether you are an Apple devotee or not, it is undeniable that Steve Jobs’ vision, creativity and innovation has had a dramatic impact on our personal and business lives. His inventions were always way ahead of the…
read moreWith the party conference season in full swing, the news has been full of conflicting views about how to get the UK’s faltering economy back on track. As a business owner you know the pain of the times we are living in, so you may be pleased to hear that one organisation has decided to tell…
read moreRules and regulations. They’re not everyone’s taste and in business there is a widely held view that there is far too much bureaucracy and red tape which simply holds SMEs back. But sometimes you need to see what happens when there aren’t any rules, to know just how important they are. Let me explain… India…
read moreAnother sign of the times perhaps as, Techmesh, the IT and telecommunications business-to-business member network, has merged with the Leeds, York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce. Techmesh was originally set up and launched in 2010 by Connect Yorkshire on the back of Yorkshire Forward’s initiative to set up an IT and telecoms B2B member…
read moreFacebook’s f8 developers conference takes place today and there are plenty of rumours flying around about what the social network has up its sleeve. In just over a year, Facebook has gone from 350 million users to more than 750 million, so, although to most of us, a developers conference is about as interesting as watching paint…
read moreHowever advanced technology gets, a phone call is often the most effective way to communicate. This is perfectly illustrated by the couple from London who became trapped in a remote ravine in the Amazon jungle. The pair, aged in their 60s, became trapped after their motor home left the road 200 miles from the nearest…
read moreToday is the the day that the US Senate is voting on a bill to save America’s economy by increasing its debt limit by $2.4trillion. Now as someone who works for a telecoms business, I like long numbers but in this case I had to write trillion as I didn’t want to type out all…
read moreThe price you pay for living in the beautiful British countryside is a lack of decent broadband speed or mobile phone services. So advisory group, The Communications Consumer Panel, has come up with a possible solution and is urging Ofcom upgrade rural coverage with the proceeds of the upcoming 4G mobile auction.
read moreSo, Robbie Williams is at it again. Where would we be without his media-friendly, attention seeking outbursts? Whether you love him or loathe him, Robbie knows how to get people talking about him, and here I am writing a blog about him for 08 Direct…so, “what’s all this got to do with non-geographic numbers?”, I…
read moreAs a new start-up which helps business people to connect and also promotes the benefits of good business practice, Bloom in Business was keen to present an ultra-professional image but without the high start-up costs usually associated with advanced call management services. They also needed to replace individual mobile numbers with a single number that improved their efficiency and gave them a national presence.
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