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Global Opportunities for Scottish Businesses

There’s a global microbrand based in the Scottish Highlands, 50 miles from the nearest cinema, with no external investment and no employees. Last month it reached potential customers in 77 countries, and served users in China, Australia, India, Europe, South America and across the USA. It’s a global microbrand – Front Office Box.

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Google Goes After Twitter

So Google’s in trouble, seemingly everywhere but like the swan swimming upstream it rolls serenely on, even when working like crazy under the surface.
Today we see Google execs threatened with prison for publishing illegal content. The company catching the EU’s ire, previously reserved for Microsoft. An enormous fuss made about privacy and Buzz. [...]

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What Would You Expect from a Cell Phone Co

Our Front Office Box software has an uptime of 99.97% measured since January 2007.
When Google Mail goes off line for an hour there’s complete mayhem and their engineers have to post apologies like crazy explaining they got the load balancing wrong.
But nobody ever loses data.
So how come these cowboys managed this disaster?  My guess is [...]

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Pre Announcing the new Front Office Box Social CRM | frontofficebox

It’s here, well, on the staging server at least, and working just great.
Before we release there are some page layout issues we need to sort out, and we need to do a thorough test (it’s already been tested several times but another run before deploy can’t hurt).  That little lot is maybe a weeks work, [...]

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Is Scotland Missing the On-line Revolution

Rhetorical question I’m afraid, because I know the answer – Yes it is.
My real question is why?  I have my own theory which we’ll get to later, but maybe you, the one person in the country who reads this will have a clearer picture.
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Free Office Software on the Business Internet | Front Office Box

There’s not a lot of point in having all this connection to the Internet if we’re going to use desk top software for personal productivity. Luckily we don’t have to use Microsoft Office, Exchange and Sharepoint. We can save ourselves large chunks of money in licenses and support costs simply by using Google [...]

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Business Tools You Can Use For Free on the Internet | Front Office Box

Should you be using Business Internet Tools? Yes – here’s why.

Cheaper, Safer, Simpler than local software, and most often free.
New technologies provide new capabilities.
Building an Internet presence.
Find, and be found.

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Microsoft Windows is Dying, and I’m not Crying

Bad News for Microsoft again courtesy of The Next Web
“Microsoft revenues for the last quarter fell sharply, with the company blaming poor global PC and server demand.
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Get Your Business Listed on Bing

Now you can get your business listed in the Bing directory – goto https://ssl.bing.com/listings/ListingCenter.aspx
and post your entry.
You’ll see it’s all about “local” probably following the Google Local Search initiative.
I haven’t listed our businesses for three reasons:

None of them are local
I can’t stand the thought of using Microsoft software even when it is Windows Live
It wouldn’t [...]

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