Weekly Newsletter - 17th September 2008
Why can’t we hold on to our
mobile phones?
You never really own a mobile phone; you just look
after it until the day you leave it in the back of a taxi.
The
evolution of the phone is about to cause some serious problems.
Once upon a time we got things repaired. Now if a button falls off we
replaced the whole television. Thirty years ago people treasured possessions and
if you lost your watch, for example, you’d be kicking yourself for weeks.
But the rise of fast fashion and disposable technology coupled with the
proportional shortening of attention spans has filled us with disdain for our
things. It is consumer communism: All property is…not worth picking up if you
drop it.
Phones are the symbol of this new age. In the 18 years before I left for
University we changed the family phone precisely once; but I upgrade my mobile
every 12 months – more often if I can get away with it......
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By Dan Matthews, Editor of LaunchLab.co.uk
The week's top news
Prepare
for October’s red tape downpour
A new wave of workplace legislation is
about to hit entrepreneurs and advisers are calling business owners to be
prepared..
Entrepreneurial
economy ‘worth £1tn’.
Entrepreneurs in the UK contribute more than £1tn
(one trillion pounds) to the UK economy annually, research by insurer Hiscox has
found..
Banks
lending to small businesses despite Crunch
Lending to small businesses
by the main high street banks has not slowed in the wake of the credit crunch,
in fact more is being dished out, according to the banks' umbrella ....
Best of the blog and
columnists
Terminate
BERR, back the Lib Dems
Do entrepreneurs vote Lib Dem? They ought to if
only to achieve one magnificent objective – the abolition of the Department for
Business. .
Nowadays,
everything’s for sale
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin group sells everything
but that which its name implies. How much longer, you wonder, when virginity (or
the removal of it) brings this much celebrity and grubby dollars?.
Why
football and business don’t mix
Football has always had a shaky
relationship with the businesses that drive it; no more so than in this season’s
Premier League....
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to protect your business ideas
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Box, tells us how he got the idea for his business and how to protect your
intellectual property rights.
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