Posts Tagged ‘companies’

Outsourcing your IT

Remember the days when having an IT problem meant phoning the IT department and waiting for someone to come round? Fans of the show The IT Crowd will related to those days. However, it’s easy to see that those days have long gone. Thanks to the pervasiveness of networks nowadays,...

Saving your data

Have you ever stopped to consider the impact on your business if you lost your data? Well, to most companies it could be a pretty devastating loss. All your email, all your data, all your intellectual property, all of this could be wiped out if you don’t have a backup...

Experts in our own niche

Have you ever noticed that the more expert we become at something, the more specialised our language and thought process become? I suppose that’s what becoming an expert is all about, the ability to tokenise experience in order to access it much more efficiently. You don’t tend to realise this...

Some more poker goodness

So, a couple of days ago I posted about Poker Stars, one of the largest poker websites in the world that has a base right here in the Isle of Man. I’ve been reading up about them, just to find out a bit what’s going on and there’s some interesting...

The Black Art of Data Recovery

I came across a great post today that brought back so many memories. It’s a blog post on a data recovery blog that goes into detail about what the Master Boot Record on a hard disk looks like. It took me back to the days of messing around with Norton...

FON raises $9.5 million

Just read that FON has raised more money to help it grow. Here’s the press release: Great news! We’ve raised another $9.5 million to grow the movement! We’ve got lots of great plans for the money. We’re going to Launch FON in Russia, launch the Fonera 2.0 (the fonera that...

Elements of Sustainable Companies

I came across this great list of attributes that are critical to the success of a start-up. Check these out: Clarity of Purpose – Summarize the company’s business on the back of a business card. Interesting test of how clear your objectives and targets are. Large Markets – Address existing...

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