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Tech to tackle India's poverty

News More than 22,000 jobs have been created in villages, from BPO employees earning $150-a-month to entrepreneurs starting book binding or tailoring businesses. Villagers in India are turning to technology to lift them out of the deprivation that keeps...

Tags: csr, india, outsourcing

[23 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum

Comment But that kind of frustration aside, these home computers launched the careers of many UK tech entrepreneurs - and are still warmly remembered by many others, whether they ended up with careers in IT or not.

Tags: sinclair, commodore, spectrum

[22 Apr 2008]

Marketing Services Firm Develops Clear Access to Remote LOB Applications

whitepaper National Marketing Resources is a 450-employee firm based in Kearney, Missouri, that provides sales and consulting services for entrepreneurs and small businesses in real estate investment and e-commerce.

Tags: gateways - hubs

[02 Apr 2008]

The Online Shadow Economy: A Billion Dollar Market For Malware Authors

whitepaper Learn about the entrepreneurs of Internet crime and how to keep your business and employees safe.document.write('') In an online black market worth more than $105 billion, malware authors can produce new, unique threats targeting businesses and...

Tags: anti-hacking

[02 Apr 2008]

Marketing Services Firm Introduces Sleek SOA With Server Upgrade

whitepaper National Marketing Resources, a 450-employee firm based in Kearney, Missouri, provides sales and consulting services for entrepreneurs and small businesses in real estate investment and e-commerce. NMR needed a reliable, security-enhanced, and...

Tags: tcp - ip, connections, links, windows server

[23 Mar 2008]

Web Retailer Improves Service, Streamlines Management With Platform Upgrade

whitepaper Quixtar stays at the leading edge of technology so that it can provide outstanding service to its network of entrepreneurs. The company is upgrading to Windows Server 2008 Standard to take advantage of new technologies in Internet Information...

Tags: application servers, directory, delivery, maintenance

[29 Feb 2008]

Unmasking the Online Bad Guys

whitepaper Download this free whitepaper to learn about the entrepreneurs of internet crime and how to keep your business and employees safe. Malware authors can produce new, unique threats targeting businesses and employees every 45 seconds.

Tags: monitoring systems, crime, authors, threats

[28 Feb 2008]

Video: Top tips for communication success

Video Author and communications coach Carmine Gallo reveals the seven simple secrets of motivation as practised by the world's most inspiring business leaders, entrepreneurs and educators. Watch this video for some top tips for improving your...

Tags: management, success, improving, leaders

[15 Feb 2008]

A Secure Network Foundation by Hi-Link and Cisco Makes the Metric for Supporting Business Expansion

whitepaper In 1963, three Czechoslovakian entrepreneurs decided to bring metric and British industrial components to U.S.industry, forming Metric & Multistandards Components Corporation (MMCC). MMCC's growth and need for increased bandwidth required bringing...

Tags: switching

[10 Jan 2008]

Hillary Clinton talks tech

News And students, entrepreneurs and consumers have been empowered by the wealth of information and opportunities afforded by an open internet. Iraq, immigration, taxes and health care probably have been the four most pressing topics of the 2008 US...

Tags: clinton, internet, facebook, hillary

[03 Jan 2008]

Post Office COO moves on

News It will be about how I can bring a wealth of operations experience to entrepreneurs who want to operationalise their businesses and significantly improve their value to the market. The Post Office director of operations Ric Francis is leaving the...

Tags: post office, safeway, career, coo

[05 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 19.10.07

Round-Up Five years ago web entrepreneurs in his position would have sold the company and formed a VC firm with the resulting millions. When a 23-year-old college drop-out with a novelty website is voted the most influential person in technology it can mean...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[19 Oct 2007]

Open Source for the Enterprise: Support Models for Open Source

whitepaper Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have noticed that the number of people who can benefit from open source is far larger than the number of people who have the skills to do so. While this paper argues that the best way to take advantage of open...

Tags: business management, skills, open source, source

[17 Oct 2007]

Tech pros up in arms over tax change

News But, according to James Bennet, technology director at accountancy firm Ernst & Young, the move will hit entrepreneurs and people who invest in their own companies much harder. Large investment companies will find ways around paying the full 18 per...

Tags: tax, chancellor, start-up

[15 Oct 2007]

Premal Shah

AS Profile Kiva is a not-for-profit organisation that uses the web to connect potential moneylenders with entrepreneurs in the developing world who need funding for their businesses. Premal Shah, president of Kiva.org, is another new face on the Agenda...

[12 Oct 2007]

Vinod Khosla

AS Profile Khosla is also now passing on his years of wisdom to tech entrepreneurs and so looks set to remain an influential presence in years to come. Indian-born Khosla is another big figure in the venture capital world and has been picked out by the Agenda...

[12 Oct 2007]

Social networking goes mainstream

AS Analysis Kiva uses social networking as a simple, inexpensive way of building relationships between individuals with money to lend and entrepreneurs in the developing world in need of a cash injection. Natasha Lomas looks at how that trend plays out in the...

[12 Oct 2007]

Microsoft Office Live Seminar: Josh Linkner Presents, "Boosting Sales With Incentives"

whitepaper Presenter will speak to entrepreneurs and small business owners to discuss new options for SMBs to increase web presence and results via Caffeine, an interactive promotions tool designed specifically for SMBs.

Tags: sales - marketing, relationships, smbs, promotions

[05 Oct 2007]

Photos of the month - September 2007

Photo Cambridge University held an innovation day in September giving entrepreneurs and start-ups the opportunity to showcase their ideas. Apple launched an updated range of iPods this month with CEO Steve Jobs beamed live to the BBC's Television Centre...

Tags: hp, ipod, apple, iphone

[27 Sep 2007]

Photos: Cambridge innovation day abuzz with fresh tech

Photo Held at Cambridge's Churchill College, the annual open day gives entrepreneurs and start-ups the chance to demonstrate their innovative ideas. The event was hosted by the St John's Innovation Centre, which provides support to businesses ranging...

Tags: university, chip and pin, innovation

[07 Sep 2007]

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