Internet & Online Business

These days it seems there’s an app for everything. We have apps for productivity, apps for information, GPS apps that help us get to places, or to prove to everyone we’re not a Billy no mates by checking in at the pub, music apps, social media apps.

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In these days of political correctness, it doesn’t seem polite to call anyone a prat. So I’ll start by calling myself one. I’ve made many mistakes in business, and although I may have done better overall than the average, there are still many open goals that I’ve missed and wrong turnings that I’ve taken.

Money spent online using mobile devices will double with the advent of 4G connectivity, according to research which could boost the British retail sector by an estimated £1.8billion in a year, a new study suggests.

The ‘Chameleon’ Botnet, which was created at Imperial College London, is responsible for stealing millions from online advertisers in the UK and US

Online information storage firm Evernote has asked all users to reset their passwords, following a security breach by hackers.

Chris Barling (chairman of ecommerce software specialist, SellerDeck) has over thirteen years experience in helping SMEs to sell on the internet, and he has become a walking, talking encyclopaedia of ecommerce and here, in an extract of his new book The Insiders Guide to Ecommerce he gives advice on being mobile ready.

David Craddock, Chief Executive of High Performance Computing (HPC) Wales explains how supercomputing technology can transform the competitiveness of SMEs in a wide range of sectors.

Social media can offer lots of clues into your competitors’ strategies. The trouble is capturing all that data. A new app promises to do it for you.

Behind countries such as Angola, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, Britain has rightly been lamented for being in the slow lane when it comes to 4G mobile services. However that is all set to change as Everything Everywhere’s new brand for 4G mobile services –“EE” – has announced plans for their rollout.

Leigh Bradford, UK sales manager at KEMP Technologies, explains what server load balancing is and why SMEs need to take it seriously

A recent Ofcom report has found that two fifths of UK adults now own and use a smartphone to access the internet. Tim Wedge, Design Director, bss digital investigates.

The first step to running a small business is to own your domain name, explains Sally Tomkotowicz from Names.co.uk

Duedil, the world’s largest database of free company financials, is rebuilding their website to improve users’ access to data from all over the web. A string of features launched recently include a Google Chrome extension, new financial ratios widget and faster data imports.

Whilst it is important to show a human element to your Twitter followers there are some tweets that can kill your social media goodwill with customers, 140 characters at a time.

UK start-up company Ensygnia confirmed today that, following an 18-month process, it had been granted its first technology patent by the UK Patent Office which could consign (forgotten) IDs and passwords to the past.

A series of initiatives for British businesses has been launched by Facebook today, including a flagship advertising credits programme to help small businesses reach potential new customers.

Last May, the EU Privacy and Communications Directive came into force which stated that all non-essential cookies used on websites must be clearly identified to the website’s users and that the website users must consent to the cookies being used (on an opt in basis). The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) gave UK website owners a year’s grace in order to become compliant with the new law and that period expired on 26 May 2012.

Although the number of retailers going into administration has fallen since 2008, there is still a steady stream of established names disappearing from the high street. But is there life in the domain names past death? Alex Wares, managing director at search marketing agency Mediarun explains

Some companies are sitting on the sidelines, sticking to their outdated traditional marketing strategies, other companies are quickly gobbling up all the best generic domain names related to their products, services, and locations. Here we explain the power of keyword domains and the role they can play in strategic marketing.

LinkedIn has expanded its mobile offering with the announcement of the LinkedIn application for the iPad as well as the availability of its iPhone and Android applications.

The latest salvo in the battle to launch a digital wallet has been unveiled – with a mini, stick-on credit card.

LogMeIn’s popular free screen sharing and online meeting service, join.me, has just added free internet VoIP conferencing to make quick, ad-hoc collaboration even easier from virtually anywhere in the world.

E-commerce businesses focus time and money on providing customers with efficient and flexible delivery options. However, many companies neglect to extend this attention to the return of unwanted goods. Paul Galpin, Managing Director of P2P Mailing, looks at the importance of assessing and managing this vital process.

One in three organisations has suffered one or more Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in the last 12 months claims new research