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Mind your mobile manners
Mobile phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants) are fast becoming the bane of British businesses, with almost two-thirds of workers complaining of poor mobile habits amongst their co-workers, or so latest research from polling organisation YouGov suggests.
Bridging the digital divide
The oft-mentioned ‘digital divide’ is apparently still growing, with the Department of Trade and Industry’s new ‘e-commerce Impact Study’ uncovering that 23 per cent of retailers had not even thought of using e-commerce.
Keep a Big Brotherly eye on staff emails
In the electronic age in which we live, much office gossip and banter that once took place by the water cooler is now flying about over email, a fact that could cause expensive problems for small business owners employment experts have warned.
Women guilty of dodgy downloads
Women are twice as bad as men when it comes to transferring personal files to their work computers. And it seems the summer season is when this phenomenon climaxes, with bragging workers eager to upload their holiday snaps.
Search engines vital for websites
Most small businesses' websites are missing out on customers because they are not registered on search engines like Google and Yahoo, according to research.
Planning for data disaster
Recent events have put the issue of business continuity and disaster recovery at the forefront of many business-owners' minds.
Time running out to enter awards
Small businesses making good use of the internet and information technology have less than a month to stake their claim for the cash prize of £50,000 that will go to the winner of the E-Commerce Awards.
Protect yourself against unwanted emails
Whether it is special offers on Viagra, cheap software, pharmaceuticals or pornography, unsolicited emails or spam is a perennial problem for businesses, accounting for around 80 per cent of email traffic in some cases.
Personal emails cost business dear
Over a third of employees spend in excess of an hour a day emailing friends and relatives during working hours, according to latest research from internet security group Clearswift.
Small firms come of age in e-commerce use
UK small businesses are making better and more sophisticated use of information and communications technology (ICT) than ever before, according to the organisers of the annual E-Commerce Awards.
Improve your IT skills
E-skills UK, the organisation responsible for IT skills development, has developed a scheme entitled Passport, a web-based, self-assessment tool to enable businesses to better analyse the IT skills of their employees and allocate training budgets accordingly.
Small firms open to IT security threat
More than half of small businesses are risking lost and disrupted business by not protecting their data from computer theft, viruses, hackers and systems failure.
Is your website being found?
With thousands of search engines, portals, directories and destination sites, where do you start? This is where pay-per-click advertising comes into play.
Is your website legal?
A recent report from the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) says that hundreds of businesses may face legal action because their websites are not accessible to disabled customers.
Are you an e-commerce award winner?
If you have used the internet or other information and communications technologies (ICT) to transform your business, then you could win thousands of pounds in cash prizes, with the official launch of this year’s E-Commerce Awards.