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Another VAT increase

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

Look out for the next VAT increase due at the start of next year: VAT will be charged at the new rate of 20% on all invoices issued on or after 4 January 2011

.COM .NET Domain Names to Increase in price

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

VeriSign recently announced price increases for .COM and .NET domains that will go into effect later this year.
Expect your .com and ,net domains to be 5% to 10% more expensive towards the end of this year.

VAT goes back up to 17.5%

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Just a quick reminder that any payments received by us before the end of December will be charged at the lower VAT rate of 15%. From 1st of January 2010 all invoices will be charged at 17.5%

Is Google the new Evil Empire?

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Back in the 70s IBM was considered to be the large megacorporation that used its monopoly power in the computer market to get its own way and maximise its profits at the expense of smaller players in the market.

Then along came Microsoft – the new player in the market – they revolutionised the pc and made it accessible to everyone with their windows software. Everyone loved Microsoft!

On the back of the success of Windows, Microsoft grew large and powerful and profitable. Soon Microsoft took over as the ‘Bad Guy’. Everyone used Windows and hated Microsoft.

At the start of the 21st century Google took over the internet search market and everyone loved Google, who’s motto is “Don’t be evil”. Google became the search engine used to find information on the web. The English language gained a new verb – ‘to google’.

On the back of the success of it’s search engine Google is now growing large, rich and powerful. History seems to be repeating itself and slowly questions are starting to be asked about Google abusing its dominant position on the internet. The latest example of this apparent abuse is the release of Google’s SideWiki where anyone can post anything on any page on the web, and only Google and not the website owner has any control over what appears on his website.

For more about SideWiki please follow the links below:

Google’s own page about Sidewiki at www.google.com/sidewiki – Contribute and Publish helpful information to any web page.

Paul Myers of talkbiz.com well argued and well written article about the potential downside of Sidewiki from the point of view of website owners.

A reluctant defense of googles sidewiki from Simon Abramovitch


Find out what people are saying about your webpage on googles side wiki

0870 Phone numbers

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

If you are still using your 0870 phone numbers contact your current supplier urgently as most suppliers will start charging for each incoming calls.

For further information please see:

Ofcom 0870 info page