A number of international science and technology-based companies are about to move to the Bristol & Bath Science Park – strengthening its role as the innovation hub for the region. Details of the new arrivals will be released today to coincide with an event to mark its first anniversary which will also hear from...
Chippenham-based communications systems provider Solar Communications has been named as one of the UK’s fastest-growing hi-tech businesses. The firm appears at number 50 in the Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 rankings for the first time. The firm has attracted five of its largest 20 customers within the past year and has enjoyed average...
Many organisations – and especially IT companies – cite the term Green IT, yet not many people understand what this means. Are there genuine benefits or is it simply the latest IT marketing spin to encourage firms to spend on IT consultants? Chippenham-based IT provider ITS has come up with four tips to dispel...
Digital revenue has shot up by 30% at Future, the Bath-based magazine and digital publishers, as consumers increasingly used their iPads and other tablets to read its products. The group said today it sold more than 1.7m copies of its titles through Apple’s Newsstand since its launch last October. However, the third-quarter rise in...
Earlier client deliveries, operating efficiencies and deferred costs helped SciSys, the specialist IT and software firm, finish its first half of 2012 finished more strongly than had been initially expected. The Chippenham-based group, which also has an operation in Bristol, also said it had maintained a solid order book during the period ending 30...
West business leaders need to understand how smartphones are changing the way individuals engage with their products and services – or they risk being left behind by the competition. The warning came from technology expert Richard Hull in an address to senior directors at a recent event staged by Executive Foundation, the leadership and...
Most medium-sized West technology companies have no plans to invest in new overseas markets over the next year, despite major opportunities in the so-called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) economies. New research from accountants and business advisers Grant Thornton shows domestic investment continues to be the number one priority for ICT businesses with...
Future Publishing’s technology websites achieved a new record of 1.2m unique users in 24 hours with its coverage of the new iPad. The Bath-based publisher’s TechRadar.com, T3.com and Gizmodo UK proved to be the most-trusted destinations for tech enthusiasts eager to find out everything about the new iPad’s technology. TechRadar.com employed teams working through...
Ray Smyth of Swindon-based The IPstore says, “Business Continuity is the result of properly planned, expertly executed IT… It is 100% proactive; the rest is just blind panic…” For an organisation using Information Technology (IT) as a routine part of its day-to-day work, the most modest of problems can cause real frustration, quickly impeding...
Information and Communications Technology (IT/ICT) is an essential asset to businesses – but all too often it fails to produce a measurable business advantage. Beginning in Swindon Business News next month, experienced IT professional and journalist Ray Smyth of Swindon-based The IPstore will offer regular insight and leadership through a new column – Business...
