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INEA presented a new data feed that enables estate agents to add high levels of functionality to their websites at very low cost. The Independent Network of Estate Agents yesterday launched an XML data feed that supplies a WordPress plug in with all the details of the properties the agent Continue Reading

Posted on April 17, 2011 At the last election I was fairly ambivalent as to which party I supported, which is unusual for me.  But I was pretty certain that I did not want the Conservatives to win! I was sure that the Osborne form of sado-masochistic economic policy in Continue Reading

There is a quite useful new feature in Window 7 called Libraries.  In essence it is a search service Lets assume there are customer folders on the network that you go to regularly, you can set up a new Library for ‘Customers’ and then link to the various customer folders Continue Reading

First time buyers should be made a protected species they are so rare. The Banks have tightened mortgage lending so much that the average loan to value ratio is now below 60%, completely stalling the property market. Last year only 194,600 first time buyers managed to get a loan, which Continue Reading

I have always wondered why businesses are so keen on mobile Apps.  They spend significant sums of money developing a bit of software that will only run on a single phone platform – iPhone, Android,  Symbian etc. and then each application has to be fine tuned for individual phone or Continue Reading

I have been an Outlook user for many years and have got used to its idiosyncracies. As it has improved over that time I have even got to like it and certainly beome dependant on it as my most used app. But I have only just discovered ‘search folders’. Search folders Continue Reading

One of the main lessons that economists claim we have learnt from the 1930 crash and the subsequent depression that lasted most of the decade (and arguably contributed to the war that followed), was that the beggar thy neighbour policy of competitive currency devaluations was a major cause and should never Continue Reading

I was recently sent the results of a survey by T-Mobile (see bottom of the post) which says that most people will turn to their spouse for advise rather than any professional advisor. Personally I think this is an entirely rational response. When I see Bank advertising that one should Continue Reading

British banks have lendings of £7bn which is about 5 times the British GDP; and that is far worse than the ratio that precipitated the banking crisis that is devastating the Irish economy. The risk is that at some time in the next few months or years there will be another British Continue Reading

A study by Boston Consulting Group has calculated that the Internet economy was worth in excess of £100bn in 2009. They furthermore calculate that the sector is a net exporter for the UK and is stimulating double digit growth rates amongst participants.