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The Startups forum is a popular resource for more than 100,000 new and aspiring business owners in the UK. Posts range from recommendations for web designers to venomous rants when HMRC’s website cracks under the pressure of deadline filing day. Tax doesn’t have to be taxing eh? Someone should pass the message on to whoever designed the HMRC site.

I digress. My point was about the Startups forum a...

By admin2 05/08/08 16:33

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Not quite dead yet

Steve Adams dismisses claims that the fax has no place in modern business

By admin2 16/06/08 15:48

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Pearly kings

Startups was lucky enough to attend the launch of the brand new BlackBerry Pearl 8110 the other day, and it's hard to be sure whether it’s because we were press or because a waiter managed to unceremoniously dump a tray of strawberry bellinis over half the team, but either way, we are now the proud owners of shiny new BlackBerrys.

Dear reader, after years in mobile limbo, I'm living the dream: I ca...

By admin2 06/03/08 10:08

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Running a business outside the office

Julie White, founder of Truly Madly Baby, on staying connected without being deskbound

By admin2 21/02/08 10:41

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The future of the mobile phone

Ray Anderson, founder of mobile web company Bango, shares his predictions on how we’ll be using our phones in 2008

Recent comment by Martinstevens - "Using your mobile for stuff like that is still a real pain most of the time. Until it's as easy as using an actual computer, you won't get much take-up" [read]

By admin2 24/01/08 09:57

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The language barrier

Kerry Ritz, managing director of Vonage UK, on avoiding confusion while taking advantage of the global market technology has created

By admin2 07/01/08 09:49

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Modern communications, old fashioned etiquette

Kerry Ritz, managing director of Vonage UK, on maintaining politeness while using new technology

By admin2 17/12/07 14:37

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Play big, stay local

Kerry Ritz, managing director of Vonage UK, on the cunning use of communications technology helping small fish compete in a global pond

Recent comment by glenhopkinson - "This global, act local. Yes, always make out you are bigger than you are; indeed thinking that way is almost self fulfilling. I always remember a graph that Microsoft used to use that showed the Windo..." [read]

By admin2 28/11/07 12:02

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Startups roadtests the iPhone

It’s been less than a week since Apple launched its eagerly awaited iPhone in the UK. Queues formed outside Apple and O2 stores on Friday evening as consumers and business owners alike clambered for the chance to get their hands on what has been dubbed by some techno geeks as ‘The Jesus phone’, for its supposed divine combination of touch screen, wi-fi online capabilities, fully-fledged video ipod...

Recent comment by Jono00 - "I agree it is an amazing phone but I contacted O2 to sign up as a business customer and they don't offer the iPhone on a business contract????

Seems very weird to me that they don't even offer it, n..." [read]

By admin2 14/11/07 15:48

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Sustainable technology

The sustainable technology sector is currently one of the most exciting places to be. However, bringing new technology to the market is time consuming, frequently capital-intensive and surrounded by regulatory hurdles.

The routes to market are still not well established and public policy responses are largely unpredictable as politicians react to increasing environmental pressures. This can lead t...

By admin2 12/10/07 11:58

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