I was interested today to see the press release four days ago from Microsoft about their recent acquisition of Skype, the market leading VoIP provider system. Initially I was surprised that I’d missed this in amongst the Rugby World Cup stuff, painting my lounge and track news from Formula 1 and the tragic death of the IndyCar driver,… Read the rest of this entry »
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Severn Valley Business Group Expo – Don’t Miss Out
By Simon on September 21st, 2011SVBG Expo – 14th October 2011 Only just over 22 days left before the big event and bookings on the website for breakfast are filling up. If you want to make breakfast then you need to book now so you don’t miss out on what is going to be a very interesting start to the… Read the rest of this entry »
SVBG Business Expo, Friday 14th October 2011
By Simon on September 13th, 2011Haven’t you signed up for the SVBG Business Expo, Friday 14th October 2011 yet? Places are starting to fill, so don’t delay! This year the format is a little different to last year, we have a breakfast from 8:00 am until 10:00 am with a guest speaker followed by the Business Expo itself from 10:00… Read the rest of this entry »
Thousands of gb.com domains go down
By Simon on August 1st, 2011Over the weekend, thousands of businesses using the gb.com domain name came in to work this morning to find there websites have been down since Saturday afternoon. gb.com domains are not fully recognised Top Level Domains (TLDs) in the same way that standard .com or .co.uk domains are. In essence a company called CentralNIC… Read the rest of this entry »
Websites go live with 'all new' Amazon Payments
By Simon on March 30th, 2011Today Amazon have launched a new payment service for eCommerce websites. As part of that launch Amazon had selected two websites in the UK to have the new service integrated into their checkout pages; two websites were selected and both of these sites were on e64′s eSPOSURE platform. Over the past month we have been… Read the rest of this entry »
Solo Card Deactivation
By Rachel on March 25th, 2011On 31 March 2011, card issuers will stop accepting Solo card transactions. The change comes as a result of MasterCard’s Maestro Alignment Migration programme, which is migrating domestic Maestro users onto the international Maestro platform. Getting ready for the change Sage Pay will manage all of the back-end system requirements and changes to our generic… Read the rest of this entry »
Is this the end of SagePay's Technical Issues
By Simon on March 10th, 2011For those of us who have again had website issues at the hands of SagePay miss-managing their own system updates, I think will share with me how repetitive they are getting with their apologies. It seems to me that each time SagePay do some work on their systems they mess it up causing issues with… Read the rest of this entry »
Networking Exhibition for West Midlands Businesses
By Simon on March 9th, 2011Tuesday 17th May 2011 From 10am until 1pm at The Ramada Hotel, Habberley Road, Bewdley, Worcestershire, DY12 1LA Bewdley Development Trust and IJM Media would like to invite you to promote your business to companies from across the region and network with like-minded professionals – free of charge! Due to the success of our… Read the rest of this entry »
Google PPC Advertising (Adwords) & Quality Score
By Rachel on July 2nd, 2010What is Quality Score? Quality Score is a variable used in PPC advertising (I am referring specifically Google for this post although Yahoo! Call it quality index, and MSN also use this but it was first introduced by Google). It is an algorithm used for ranking the relevancy of landing pages to their corresponding text… Read the rest of this entry »
Is your virtual life protected?
By Simon on June 20th, 2010I was at a meeting of the Severn Valley Business Group the other day and one the members, Chris Milne, gave an excellent presentation on the topic of what happens to your online life when your real one is over. It’s something that I personally had never considered, and according to Chris I’m not alone… Read the rest of this entry »
