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Reach anyone, anywhere, any time

Brace yourselves folks, Unified Communications is coming your way. Major software and hardware suppliers are teaming up to make sure that people can reach each other more or less instantly, regardless of what device they’re using or where they are physically.
Effective communication between people means that work can be accelerated and collaboration facilitated. Taking the [...]

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Who does China’s pollution belong to?

Last week the free Metro newspaper carried a front-page chart of carbon emissions by country. It looked like a chance to take a pop at the Chinese and the Americans who top the league of polluters by pumping out around four times as much CO2 as their nearest ‘competitor’ in these dismal stakes, Russia.
It occurred [...]

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Handle the infoglut

How do you keep up with what’s going on in the world? Apart from reading and listening to SmallBizPod’s offerings, that is. A regular newspaper, The Economist, Real Business, Radio 4, tv news? Lots of different sources compete for your attention and there are only so many hours in the day.
One answer might be to [...]

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Are Home Workers Out Of Their Tree?

By 2012 5.5 million people in the UK will be working from home, according to the latest research from the Future Laboratory, commissioned by Microsoft.   
A big number for sure, but only a relatively small proportion of the 91% interviewed who said they’d rather escape the office to work from home, or perhaps outdoors.
Outdoors working is [...]

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FreeAgent Central reduces the bean-counting burden

Perhaps it’s a sign of my misspent youth (I used to write ledger and payroll software) but accounting software bores me witless. I am more than happy to leave SAP and Sage coverage to others.
Last week, AccManPro’s Dennis Howlett and Twinfield’s David Terrar persuaded me to turf up at the announcement of what I thought [...]

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SmallBizPod #45 - venture funding for female entrepreneurs

SmallBizPod #45 - venture funding for female entrepreneurs

Gita Patel, founder of Stargate Capital and creator of the Trapezia Fund, talks about venture capital funding and female entrepreneurship.

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SmallBizPod #69 - Clive Birnie, MBOs and jumping through windows

SmallBizPod #69 - Clive Birnie, MBOs and jumping through windows

Interview with Clive Birnie of Somerset manufacturing company Severn Delta, on management buy-outs, leadership, jumping through windows, finance and business blogging.

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SmallBizPod #74 - digital startups on Digital Mission to NYC

SmallBizPod #74 - digital startups on Digital Mission to NYC

Interviews with some of the UK's most exciting digital start-ups at a meet up before they flew out to New York on the first Digital Mission of 2008.

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SmallBizPod #44 - eBay entrepreneur, clicks & mortar

SmallBizPod #44 - eBay entrepreneur, clicks & mortar

Philip Molloy, UK chief executive of ISold It, talks about Ebay, clicks and mortar, how to role out a franchise and his own entrepreneurial journey. [Please note ISold It has gone bust]

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  • David Tebbutt: Cheers Simon. That one’s been popular with BrainStorm users for years. It’s pretty relaxed...
  • Simon JOnes: I’m using FreeMind, which is Java-based,cross-platform and free. It really helps when trying to...
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  • Alex Bellinger: Thanks Martyn, the cashflow issue hadn’t occurred to me and exactly why your insight here is so...
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  • Alex Bellinger: Hi Martyn Indirectly, I guess, assuming it helps to stimulate spending. Alex P.S. Forgot to say, many...
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  • Ed: Good old Dan The ex-eBay employee is always a good read (no, seriously, he is), and always ready to plug his...
  • Sherry Borzo: Thanks for the silver lining news and ha, ha, on the blowing bit. Nothing like tooting the horn for...

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