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The Idle Self-employed

...s news. How about contractors, freelancers, and the swelling ranks of the self-employed? They don’t work full-time, 9 to 5. They get... Read more

14 May, 2012

The networked self-employed

...shift in the structure of the workplace. There's about 3 million self-employed in the UK, and this is set to rise to 6... Read more

16 June, 2011

HMRC promotes mobile apps for record-keeping

Small businesses and the self-employed are notoriously poor at keeping the copious records needed for tax... Read more

16 April, 2012
Ten reasons why people get out of IT

Ten reasons why people get out of IT

...to make sure you eventually get your just rewards. Photo credit: Being Self Employed See more photo galleries on ZDNet UK Read more

16 April, 2011 by Jack Wallen
Ten traits you need to succeed in IT

Ten traits you need to succeed in IT

...7. A good sense of PRWhether or not you're self-employed, to some extent you still have to be your own marketing... Read more

30 June, 2011 by Jack Wallen
IT burn-out? Ten career options to consider

IT burn-out? Ten career options to consider

...would have a modicum of control over your own fate — perhaps being self-employed — and you wouldn't have to deal with downed networks, failover... Read more

5 June, 2011 by Jack Wallen
Small Business Tracker Deluxe 1.9.5.2

Small Business Tracker Deluxe 1.9.5.2

Small Business Tracker Deluxe is a productivity suite that allows self-employed professionals, or small businesses, to keep track of their time, expenses... Read more

2 May, 2012
EzeAccounts 3.07

EzeAccounts 3.07

EzeAccounts is a UK accounting software package designed for self employed individuals and small businesses. Unlike all of the other accounts packages... Read more

20 April, 2012
iCash 7.4.6

iCash 7.4.6

...serve several small accounting needs for either private users, or clubs, associations, self-employed, small businesses or simply to be used at home, making keeping... Read more

17 April, 2012
OroTimesheet 7.17

OroTimesheet 7.17

...your needs, whether you work for a big organization or are a self-employed worker. Main modules include those for employees, groups, projects, activities, customers... Read more

10 April, 2012
Solar Accounts UK Accounting Software 3.5.2

Solar Accounts UK Accounting Software 3.5.2

Solar Accounts is a basic accounting software program designed for self-employed individuals and small businesses in the UK. Unlike other accounting software... Read more

5 April, 2012
Ghosts of Christmas past: Helpdesk horrors

Ghosts of Christmas past: Helpdesk horrors

...no one wants, but it seems to be a common theme among self-employed support specialists. How do you avoid this nightmare? Rather than turn... Read more

24 December, 2011 by Jack Wallen

One Dashboard to rule them all

...have confessed previously to Breakfast Networking, the breakfast of choice for the self-employed. And 10 minutes with Chris Brown from Aspect Plus changed my... Read more

5 July, 2011

'Unrealistic' IT deadlines threaten universal credit plan

...elements of universal credit policy are still not decided — for example, how self-employed people will be handled and how support for childcare will be... Read more

20 June, 2011 by Staff
TimePanic for Windows and Pocket PC 2.8 build 615

TimePanic for Windows and Pocket PC 2.8 build 615

TimePanic is a mobile time tracking solution for the self-employed, for small businesses, or just for anyone who works on a... Read more

19 June, 2011

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

10 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

12 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

15 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

15 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

16 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

18 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

19 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

20 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

21 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

22 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

23 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

1 day ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

1 day ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

2 days ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry