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Investing in a new database

Simon Seward, MD of Touchdown Brand Affinity Marketing, explains the sacrifices that had to be made to invest in vital new IT equipment...

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Domain names evolve

Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS), says he expects it to be superseded as new technology emerges that is designed to unite telephone numbers and email addresses to find you wherever you are.

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SMS Technology: Watch phone

It sounds like a gadget you’d find on Captain Kirk’s Christmas list, but due to go on sale soon is a wristwatch that can also be used to make calls and send texts – it won’t beam you up, though...

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Christian Nelleman: What I wish I’d known when I started

Serial entrepreneur and high-flyer Christian Nelleman founded XLN Telecom in 2002 to offer an alternative telecoms service for small businesses. The company’s growth was phenomenal, advancing 800 per cent in the first year and has continued in the same vein...

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Simon Tate: What I wish I’d known when I started

Simon Tate took control of family pharmaceutical business Wallace Manufacturing Chemists at the age of 22. Seven years later, as managing director of spin-off Kew Health and Beauty, he’s providing bespoke luxury health, beauty, cosmetic and personal care solutions and the company reports year-on-year growth in excess of 85 per cent...

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David Williams: Reaching for the stars

Over the next two years, David Williams, who is founder and chief executive of Avanti Communications at just 37 years old, has €110 million (£66.2 million) to spend on launching a 2.5-ton satellite the size of a Land Rover Discovery.

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The Dalai Lama’s Book of Wisdom

The book: The Dalai Lama’s Book of Wisdom, by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Reviewed by: Dr Anthony Lovat, founder and managing director, O-Pro Mouthguards...

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Geoff Foster: Concerns about the UK economy

We ask Geoff Foster, market reporter at the Daily Mail, what currently concerns him about the UK economy...

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The Dalai Lama’s Book of Wisdom

The book: The Dalai Lama’s Book of Wisdom, by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Reviewed by: Dr Anthony Lovat, founder and managing director, O-Pro Mouthguards...

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Geoff Foster: Concerns about the UK economy

We ask Geoff Foster, market reporter at the Daily Mail, what currently concerns him about the UK economy...

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Good month for language entrepreneur

An entrepreneur who started his language venture from his bedroom has silenced the competition by scooping a cash prize..

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Techwatch – When viruses attack!

Computers used by businesses are attacked every 15 minutes by some form of malicious internet software...

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Mike Tobin: What I wish I’d known when I started

Charismatic Mike Tobin is CEO of data centre provider TelecityRedbus, as well as a member of the Magic Circle and one-time Father Christmas to a children’s ward. He joined Redbus Interhouse in 2002, grew turnover to more than £50 million and has now completed a reverse takeover with TeleCity Group. In 2005, the London Chamber of Commerce and Business awarded the company ‘Business Turnaround of the Year’...

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Peter Earl: My name is Earl

Every now and then I climb mountains’ is the kind of self-effacing comment you can expect from renaissance man Peter Earl, Harvard Kennedy scholar, UN adviser, pal of Bolivia’s Evo Morales, author of a textbook on cross-border takeovers, and now bringing power to emerging regions.

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Boosting confidence in outsourcing your customer service function to call centres in Africa

CCI Kenya discusses why outsourcing key of your business processes to call centres in Africa may be beneficial