Posted by David Tebbutt on 28th July 2008.
I spend far too much time poring over information provided by government departments, quangos and assorted institutions in the search for understanding and, maybe, even wisdom. But, too often, I hear the sound of axes grinding and I discover that I’m looking in the wrong places for a balanced view.
I won’t bore you with the [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 21st July 2008.
Do people in your company need to collaborate fairly intimately with others who are geographically distant in order to get their work done more quickly? By ‘intimately’ I mean a mix of voice and screen sharing among a smallish group of people.
And would you like to do this at a low fixed cost and with [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 14th July 2008.
Toby Moores is a businessman whose stock in trade is ideas. His company generates them by the thousand, filters out those most likely to succeed and then has a stab at commercialising them. The business, called SleepyDog, has had a few major ‘hits’, most notably in the field of mobile telephony security and later with [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 10th December 2007.
Earlier this year, I interviewed Felix Dennis about climate change and sustainability for Sustainable Solutions magazine. Dennis is probably best known for creating Maxim although he has heaps of other titles to his credit, including PC Pro and The Week. He also owns masses of farmland which he’s gradually converting to broadleaf forest which he [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 14th October 2007.
Recent research conducted for the Information Commissioner’s Office reveals that 78 percent of small businesses are “unaware that they are required to keep customer information accurate and up to date”.
Frankly, their ignorance is not surprising, when you consider how much documentation they have had to to plough through to understand what the Data Protection Act [...]
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