Oct 10
If you’re a techie, especially one with a love of iPhones then developing applications (usually referred to as apps) for the Apple iPhone, iTouch and iPad and other iPhone OS powered devices might be the perfect tech based business idea for you.
What investment is required to start developing iPhone apps?
In order to develop and sell apps for Apples iPhone OS you will need a bare minimum of:
- an Apple computer for development;
- an iPhone(or IPod Touch)/iPad or both depending on your target platform.
- A subscription to the Apple developer programme.
All of which can be obtained for around £1,400. Yo
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Oct 08
Watching an exchange on Twitter earlier this week made me think about the distinction between businesses at the bottom of the market and equivalent businesses in the same industry at the top of the market. Some say that the income of a small business owner is the average of the people that he or she spends most time with. Read more…
Oct 08
Small businesses are recognising the benefits of newer technology despite slight extra cost, research suggests.
Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology is becoming more popular among small businesses which has now been recognised that it will not break the bank.
Small firms had been misled to believe that VoIP services are at a higher cost compares with traditional communication systems.
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Oct 04
Some local government councils in the UK have “deliberately” limited the accessibility of data they are obliged to publish under the Freedom of Information Act, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said at the Conservative Party conference yesterday.
“I’m sorry to say that some councils spend time and money deliberately making data unusable to anyone else,” he said.
He pledged to make all information released through the FOI Act “machine readable”, so that independent websites or applications can retrieve it automatically.
“All data released through FOI must be in a reusable and machine readable format, available to everyone and able to be exploited for social and commercial purposes,” Maude said.
In
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Oct 02
PROVIDENCE – Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, will be the keynote speaker at the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council’s annual dinner on Monday, Oct. 4.
The annual dinner will begin at 5:00 p.m. and speakers will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the R.I. Convention Center; a student town hall will be held beforehand at 3:00 p.m.
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., will offer introductory remarks and Gov. Donald L. Carcieri, R.I. Senate President M. Teresa Paiva-Weed and R.I. House of Representatives Speaker Gordon Fox will also speak at the event.
Sep 30
Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest IT company, has appointed the former chief executive of German software vendor SAP as its new CEO.
Leo Apotheke stepped down from SAP in February 2010, shortly after the company announced an 8% drop in revenues for 2009. Until that point, he had served with the company for 20 years.
“Leo is a strategic thinker with a passion for technology, wide-reaching global experience and proven operational discipline – exactly what we were looking for in a CEO,” said HP board member Robert Ryan in a statement announcing his appointment. “After
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