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Avoid the spam spiders to save company costs

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:01:10 GMT

You may have noticed a reduction in the number of junk emails in your inbox recently.

Is banking becoming a social thing?

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:06:15 GMT

We have seen how the internet has changed a whole range of business sectors — travel, property and media to name just a few.

E-tailers fight for bite of £13.1bn ‘online spend’ pud

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:03:35 GMT

With less than six weeks to go until Christmas, e-marketing companies are battling for column inches with their online Christmas spending predictions.

Why you do not have to do things by the book

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:23:06 GMT

You don’t have to be a fan of literature to admire the sheer commercial genius of the recently announced online venture by the publishing giant Harper Collins.

Darren Lemon: Newspapers have to get on board with online business

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:43:22 GMT

Unless you were in America recently, you probably missed a magazine cover that was hailed by its producers as the future of publishing.

It’s game on (line) as US presidential race hots up

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:33:15 GMT

Fans of the computer game Burnout Paradise (http://criteriongames.com) recently thought they were the victims of an internet spoof when they played it online.

Taxing times on the road to e-government

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:25:55 GMT

Anyone who pays tax under the self-assessment system will have noticed a major change in deadlines this year — and it’s all to do with the drive towards e-government.

Signed, sealed, delivered — but at what cost?

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:52:55 GMT

Online retailers are facing something of a Catch 22 situation because of increased transport costs.

Communication can be the key to business success

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:04:06 GMT

Let me begin by introducing myself as the new author of this column; my name is Darren Lemon and I am the general manager of eircom NI.

How to bag a bargain and sell for profit

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:08:59 GMT

Small-scale property developers have been doing it for years: buy a run-down house, do it up, and sell it at a decent profit. But it seems that in America, where most internet trends begin, they’re doing the same with websites.

Firms turn over a new leaf

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:28:09 GMT

We have seen the internet transform industries such as travel, retailing and property sales. Next up: the book business.

Benefits of being sociable

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:19:43 GMT

Most of us think of the web as a place where we can extend our bricks-and-mortar business. Independent News & Media, the owner of the newspaper you are reading, has demonstrated how a core media business can diversify into other spheres of commerce – see www.nicarfinder.co.uk for just one example.

Firms must play internet name game

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:08:04 GMT

Well, the decision by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (www.icann.org), to relax the rules on top-level domains means that the number of suffixes in web addresses (such as .com, .biz, .net or .info) will rise from 21 to perhaps thousands or even millions. Nobody yet knows.