No-one can argue that the patent system in the US is out of control. What started as a brilliant way of protecting intellectual property has now become a way of stifling innovation and a way for big businesses with very deep pockets to put an end to new competition by involving them in expensive and…
Many of you will know that the founder of this blog Stefan Töpfer, founded and is steadily building, Winweb, a cloud computing firm. I have known Stefan for a while now after I interviewed him for a book, Rare Business (you can buy a copy here) that I wrote in 2010. Since then I have…
My skype is down and now I hear it is down everywhere. The problems are fairly strange – on some of my computers, iPad and iPhone it works OK, on my main computer the software client does not connect. Their website Skype.com is down too? As you can see the Skype boys & girls are…
When you look at products like WinWeb’s Online Office Suite you realize that it provides you with far more than just small business cloud computing software or Software as a Service (SaaS), it is actually a complete small business IT “Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS). “ IaaS – Infrastructure as a ServiceDelivers time-savings, security and…
Much is being said about so called APIs, software bridges, mashable technology an other little innocent sounding descriptions like – “our software plays nicely with this software”! IMO – truth is – there is nothing “nice” about it! Let’s back up a little, what does it all mean? What it means is this, the software…
One of the main benefits we always stress about OnlineOffice and on-demand software in general is how environmentally friendly it is. There was an excellent article recently at Software Advice where they conducted some tests to see if a SaaS solution would really have much effect on the amount of energy consumed. They used a…
While WinWeb itself is the biggest victim of the ‘winweb security’ malware, it has responded to over 10,000 partly angry and abusive enquiries and sent out information on how to uninstall the malware each time. Google ‘winweb’ and you can see why WinWeb.com is still victimized for the criminal and illegal use of it’s trademark.…
WinWeb is offering a Best Price Guarantee for it’s OnlineOffice product, currently in version five. Including modules for accounting software, 10GB of online data storage, web hosting including a web builder application, invoicing software, online shop, online payment, over 100 free business ideas inside the home & small business academy, an online calendar and address…
Yesterday the whole of the UK came to an almost complete standstill, London certainly did, due to the ‘adverse weather conditions’, snow to you and me. While I was sitting in my home office, with a hot cup of tea, I could not tell that anything was wrong, or that people in my business ‘eco-system’…
Ever seen these silly TV ads Apple and Microsoft are running currently? The ones where normal looking people proclaim to be PCs or Macs? What really worries me is that Microsoft displays a lack of small business and home business understanding on a massive scale. Are they really saying small business should care? For 1…
