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3G iPhone - the business perspective
News Business customers who wish to buy in store, such as SMEs, will only be able to buy two devices each (consumers are rationed to one). A radical strategy shift from Apple - moving to a multiple-operators model - would be needed before the phone... [10 Jul 2008]
Bridging the Finance Gap: A Consultation on Improving Access to Growth Capital for Small Businesses
White Paper The Government is working to create a fertile environment for business start-up and growth, and to address specific market failures that prevent small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from realising their full growth potential. [03 Jul 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News The analyst also claimed that SMEs are more likely to take advantage of this kind of scheme than large enterprises. Gordon Lovell-Read Siemens UK Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk last week, Gartner analyst Brian Gammage said that... [30 Jun 2008]
Microsoft launches into virtualisation
News Many SMEs will welcome the increased flexibility that Hyper-V will bring but Lock said he believes it unlikely that large companies will use the product for all their virtualisation requirements. However, recent research around attitudes to server... [27 Jun 2008]
Admit to security breaches, companies told
News Over the past year ENISA has also compiled a study on a European Information Sharing and Alert System to inform the public and SMEs about online threats, vulnerabilities and attacks, as well as putting together a report on the risks of social... [27 May 2008]
Credit crunch failing to hold tech back
News More than half (53 per cent) of SMEs surveyed by tech trade body Intellect, forecast double-digit growth this year. Confidence seems to be high in the UK tech industry that it can avoid the pitfalls of the credit crunch during 2008. [02 May 2008]
O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal
News The Business Broadband offering is targeted at SMEs and, as with O2's Home Broadband service, comes with free 24/7 UK-based support. Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service and extended the coverage of its home broadband... [01 May 2008]
BT embraces NetSuite's on-demand software
News Both sets of software are aimed at boosting client relationships which, according to BT Business research, 43 per cent of UK SMEs feel is the most critical factor for success. The tie-up focuses on SMEs and will, according to BT, allow them to keep... [22 Apr 2008]
SMEs not exploiting web potential
News David Wei, CEO of Alibaba.com, the global online marketplace for SMEs, said UK small businesses are hampered by opting for the perceived safety of existing relationships and channels. Wei told silicon.com said: "I think UK SMEs are used to a very... [25 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment I was doing desktop and comms network support for SMEs and the tight so-and-so so's seemed to think that £70 per hour was far too expensive. With most e-crime targeting UK business coming from servers in foreign countries, how does the UK police... [20 Mar 2008]
Police chief: Cyber crime is everywhere
News Soca has also launched its getsafeonline.org campaign to advise SMEs on how to secure their data and systems. Lemon said that with computers widely used by criminals it was essential for each of the UK's 43 police forces to be able to tackle e-crime. [19 Mar 2008]
Businesses may be forced to pay for e-crime police
News Influence of big business over the unit concerned the FSB, which represents SMEs, with a spokeswoman saying larger companies may be rewarded with more say over its running in return for bigger contributions. [17 Mar 2008]
Budget 2008: Tech companies fight for contract windfall
News The technology industry has pledged to fight for a share of a public sector contract windfall the Chancellor of the Exchequer promised to SMEs in his 2008 Budget. Thirty per cent of public contracts would be awarded to SMEs within the next five years. [12 Mar 2008]
Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation
Comment The company recently launched a range of business ADSL2+ broadband packages for SMEs under the Pipex Business brand, following its acquisition of Pipex's broadband and phone divisions last year. Research conducted by the Cranfield School of... [21 Feb 2008]
BT wi-fi phones fail to light a fuse with consumers
News It is still being actively marketed to SMEs and large businesses, both in the UK and abroad, but we have scaled back on our [consumer] marketing," the spokesperson said. BT does not have its own cellular network - it resells a Vodafone service... [07 Feb 2008]
