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Web-conferencing and telepresence

Oliver Thompson, MD of training firm Transphorm, claims to have saved around £5,000 a year through using video-conferencing.

The new cybercriminals

From Twitter to cloud computing, internet innovation is presenting new opportunities to the devious, and they are exploiting them to the full. We outline the main dangers and find out what is being done about them.

Copenhagen: a power failure?

Expectations were high for the Copenhagen Summit, but very little was achieved. We ask the winners of last year’s Rosenblatt New Energy Awards what went wrong.

Industrial revolutions

UK engineering and technology companies have repeatedly proved their excellence across a range of industries, so imagine what they could achieve if they had the right kind of backing.

Could energy harvesting work?

The air around us is full of stray electromagnetic radiation, which scientists at the Nokia Research Centre are looking at ways to “harvest” to power phones.

Business applications of Web 2.0

It's now clear that social media is more than just a passing craze and that it has serious implications for business. We look at three organisations which lead the way in their use of Web 2.0 technologies.

The floating doorstep

We talk to the inventor of a product designed to boost Britain's flood defences about his struggle to find a backer.

Genius at work

For companies operating on the frontiers of technology, intellectual property is an essential defence. But it can also be a cash cow, an exit tool or even a weapon against competitors. GrowthBusiness investigates.

YouTube in the workplace

Banning YouTube and Facebook tends to be among the first entries on a company’s internet policy.

Plastic Logic to launch reader

Almost a decade after the company was set up, electronics innovator Plastic Logic is ready to launch its first product.

The IRIScan 2

Optical character recognition has come a long way since those early days of feeding typewritten pages into your desktop scanner. Now it’s gone portable.

Shareholder revolts on the up

Shareholder activism is on the march, provoked by bad corporate stewardship, the inevitable disappointments of business in a downturn, changes in the law and a new breed of opportunistic investor. GrowthBusiness investigates.

Next big thing: automated call-centres

Along with airport car parks and fake tan, call centres are one of the great ills of the modern world. A company based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Artingence, believes it has discovered the antidote.

Email overload

Email is an indispensable part of the modern office, but for those who hate to delete, storing millions of messages can become a headache. We look at how football club Tottenham Hotspur tackled the problem.

Exploding laptops

Hazel Blears made headlines when a laptop containing sensitive files was stolen from her constituency office. Here’s how she could have protected the data.

Punch above your weight

Jos White, who sold his company MessageLabs for $695 million, on why it's so important to act like a bigger business than you really are.

Meeting menaces: The Waffler

More tips from John Cleese, who reveals how to stop a waffler in full flow.

Reducing energy usage

Ian Cheshire, chairman of B&Q, explains how the store has saved 10,000 tonnes of carbon emissions.