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Business card bliss

Every mover and shaker knows that you don't make a business a success by sitting behind your desk thinking about strategy.

Technology

Unified communications

If you liked VoIP, you'll like this.

Technology

Exploding laptops

Hazel Blears made headlines when a laptop containing sensitive files was stolen from her constituency office. Here's how she could have protected the data.

Human Resources

Virtual PAs: the lowdown

An engaged tone doesn’t create the best first impression. Mike Smithson, founder of web development company The Property Jungle, uses a virtual PA service to field incoming calls.

Technology

VoIP via your mobile

Technology moves quickly and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is no longer tied to the desktop PC. It's now possible to make VoIP calls on a handheld device such as a mobile, which saves lugging a laptop around as well as cutting the cost of international calls.

Technology

Technology tailored to fit

‘Life On Demand’ is a term that epitomises the way our personal and business lives are heading. Today, companies make millions giving people the products and services to do any number of things on demand.

Technology

How PDAs can change your life

Simon Powell, founder and director of lock-maker Servocell, is a self-crowned 'King Geek'. He owned one of the prototype PDAs, the Psion organiser, back in the primeval days of 1995.

News

Plastic Logic secures $100 million

Plastic Logic, which develops plastic electronics for flexible displays and sensors, has raised $100 million (£51.7 million) in one of the largest financings in the history of European venture capital.

Technology

Business cards go electronic

The days of scrabbling through a pile of business cards to find one contact could be numbered, with the launch of a software program that sends electronic business cards direct to visitors’ mobile phones.

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£4m for Eleksen

A host of venture capital backers - led by MTI Partners, 3i and Hotbed - have invested an additional £4 million in Pinewood Studios-based Eleksen, a smart fabric developer whose products can be used to control mobile phones, MP3 players and other electronic devices.

Growth Planning

Pasporte targets growth

Gary Woodward, co-founder of Panacea, a traditional IT solutions business, was seeking a fresh challenge and launched Pasporte in 2000, one of the first application service providers.

News

UTEK takes AIM

Floridian technology transfer business UTEK Corporation, which acquires new university technologies and develops them into practical applications, is poised for an AIM launch on Monday 11 April.