Category: Business

  • My best PDA/phone ever! (it's a HTC Touch Cruise)

    For the last few years I’ve had a phone that made people gawk in awe… In awe of why on earth I dragged it around mostly, not because it was a thing of beauty. It was an O2 XDA Exec, or HTC Universal. The universal ran Windows Mobile 5, had a huge touch screen (640…

  • Margins and markups What everyone in business needs to know.

    Quick answer in words (requested from the comments) Margin = The comparison between your selling price (100%) and your profit Markup = The comparison between your cost price (100%) and your profit Every time we get a new member of staff I have to teach them how to work out margins and mark ups. This…

  • VoIP at home with a Linksys SPA3102, trails, tribulations but it's working now

    So far my experiments with sipgate VoIP have been good. The next step has been to buy an adapter that will convert our home phone into a VoIP phone. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, the sipgate softphone is fine for me when I’m using my laptop but it doesn’t have the same convenience…