Text order to Pizza Hut
In the States it is possible to text a pizza, which is great, but maybe not always the most practical way of ordering something, especially as sometimes the text messages do not arrive that quickly, however what this does show is that there are businesses out there which are happy to embrace the new technology [...]
January 11, 2008Mind-bending customer service staff
When you call a customer service centre regarding some sort of problem that you have had with their products or services, the initial response is to rant and rave, but clearly this is not going to get you anywhere at all.
So what do you do if you really want to get your way from the [...]
Microsoft goes for FAST
Microsoft is making a move on the search engine FAST (Fast search and Transfer) it is said that the figures being put around are something I the region of $1.2 billion in cash, the deal will make things in the enterprise search industry which has been dominated by FAST, but there are other players too, [...]
January 7, 2008Disney restaurant bans kids
Considering that Disney has been built up on the dreams of children, it would seem very strange for the company to ban kids from one of its restaurants, but as from this week anyone under the age of ten will not be allowed in the Victoria and Albert’s in the Grand Floridian Resort and spa, [...]
December 28, 2007Amazon has a good Christmas
Considering that there has been much talk about the slow lead up to the Christmas rush, but that must have just been one side of the story, for despite the talking down of sales, some businesses have actually thrived and it is the online retailers who have done very well for themselves.
Amazon has announced that [...]
Google hire people for feedback
Imagine a job where you search Google and look at the results all day long! Well there may just be an opportunity at Google for just a position like that one. Sounds interesting!
Google are in a funny position at the moment, they are still riding on their successes of a few years ago, and are [...]
Digg for sale
It has been the talk for some time that the social voting site Digg would be either sold or taken into a larger group, but there has never been any real substance behind all of these claims, but now it would seem that the owners of the site has put a price tag on Digg, [...]
December 12, 2007No kebabs means better air quality
China are so desperate to improve the air quality in Beijing for next years Olympics, that they have been around the city and decided to ban the street markets that sell food, in particular kebabs because they use wood to cook with this creates a problem of its own through the smoke given off.
There are [...]
“I feel lucky” costs millions
Poor old Google, every time that a Google users presses the “I Feel Lucky” button on the search engine its costs them money, according the one of the co founders Sergey Brin, costing them money however is not entirely true, what he means is that they don’t actually make any money, there is a slight [...]
November 21, 2007From babysitter to millionaire
Like most teenagers Vanessa Wauchope from Connecticut, USA, did a bit of babysitting for some extra cash, but after college when she moved to NYC, babysitting was far from her mind. But as things go she ended up needing some extra cash and decided to fall back onto what she knew best.
So at the age [...]
There’s no money in Wi-Fi
Municipal wireless projects are great for the areas but for companies like Earthlink they are not only a nightmare but unprofitable as well.
But it would that it is the companies fault, as they have been working on the wireless system in Philadelphia and with only a small percentage of the work done, they have realised [...]
Could Santa be green?
This is a bit of fun, which also has a serious message. The figure of Santa has been around for what would seem years and yet he turns a blind eye to what happens in the world, the disasters, the bad people and so on, so where does he stand on green issues?
The case for [...]
Business target Facebook users
From now on businesses will be on Facebook in a big way, and some major companies like, Coca Cola, Blockbuster, CBS, Sony and Verizon have already been looking into how they can take advantage of this new and exciting advertising opportunity.
Advertising on Facebook will take the form of custom pages, marketing messages across the network [...]
Patronising a bad business
You know how it is there this local store that is very convenient for those last minute items or when you really don’t fancy driving to the out of town superstore, but the people that run this little store are rude, sell stuff that is out of date and so on, every town must have [...]
October 31, 2007How to be successful
First of all you would need to first decide exactly what your definition of success is, money, happiness or something else!
But is this success a measure against other people too, say you were a runner, would you compare yourself to an Olympic runner or just against someone else in your age and ability class? It [...]
Post to be hit with more strikes
Once again it would appear that the postal delivery system is going to be disrupted by a series of strikes. But this time it is the managers who are flexing their defiant muscles; in fact they are probably the same managers who rolled up their sleeves when the ordinary workers went on strike. What message [...]
September 13, 2007Google docs and spreadsheet problems
If you are using Google’s doc and spreadsheets, you may wish to take a quick peek at the terms and conditions, because if they are worded as a lot of people think they are, then any published content could belong to Google or rather they have the right to re produce it for marketing purposes. [...]
September 7, 2007Free Zoho Business suite available
In competition with the office suite from Google and other applications, Zoho are to make their new version of the office suite available in either free or pro versions. Although both versions are to be free until the company is able to sort the features out on the pro version. It is anticipated that the [...]
September 5, 2007Busy tone means lost business
In a recent survey by the Birmingham based company Time Etc it has been found that small businesses and sole traders are losing millions of pounds worth of business simply because they are too busy to answer the phone.
Research has found that 70% per cent of customers calling a business and getting no answer or [...]
Business rate rise to fund public transport
According to a report by the Centre of Cities Think Tank, local authorities could easily raise around £10 billion for the use in public transport projects, one of which could be the London Cross Rail project, which would mean trains would not need to terminate in London.
By creating a supplementary business rate the larger cities [...]