Yesterday, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bill Gates is calling on us all to be creative with capitalism - in other words, find ways to divert some of your profits or efforts to the poor.
At the same time, Microsoft announced a 79% leap in net profit for October to December 2007 of [...]

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Has anyone seen the advert where the mother peers out to see her child playing in the next room?
She does a very rapid double-take, and in the blink of an eye the kid is covered in chocolate, crayons and there are toys everywhere?
My desk is like that. I peer at the window to watch the [...]

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***UPDATED*** (see below for winner)
I gave one of these away on Friday, but a few entries came in after the deadline. So I bought an extra one when I went to pick it up. It’s a 4GB USB pen drive. Actual size is just longer than a match.
Phil Lawton of Sutton Kersh (Exchange Street East, [...]

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(Update below)
Open to small businesses in Merseyside, UK, who replied to our email survey.
Being January, I’m seeing how our target for the year shapes up against the competition.
Our target is to fix 95% of all IT support calls we receive from our small business clients on Merseyside within 4 hours.
I asked if their current IT [...]

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Kill Two Birds With One Stone - Get Yourself Mobile Internet Which Can Double Up To Get Your Office Online Too
In the third part of our series on the importance of broadband, and more precisely what you do if it fails, we continue to look at the options.
Part II advocated an old-style dial up account. [...]

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