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This series of events is a unique opportunity for you to gain insight into how new technologies can help boost your productivity as well as save you money; not only this, it is also a great way to network with colleagues over breakfast.

Use the HSBC web tool to check how secure your IT is.

Brits are embracing mobile shopping faster than their European counterparts, according to data produced by eBay.

A new network has been set up to bring more innovation to market in the field of advanced materials for challenging environments, writes South East Business Innovation & Growth.

Fuel and energy prices are rising all the time, impacting everyone's bottom line; here's a review of some cost-saving options including details of the latest new technology and best practice ideas, writes Business Link South East.

Mobile apps have become a major business in the last few years with the five billionth app downloaded from the app store on 7 June 2010, writes the Institute of Directors (IoD).

SEEDA has approved £1.5m of Collaborative R&D funding for this year in support of the aims of the International Space Innovation Centre at Harwell.

The contrast could not be starker - while David Cameron uses the metaphor of 'rebooting the economy' to get UK businesses to innovate, compete and export the country back to fiscal health, Apple has reached ever higher pinnacles of global commercial success, unveiling its revolutionary iPad and iPhone4 in the space of less than a month and has outstripped the mighty Microsoft in market value.

A unique opportunity has arisen for the Yarmouth Telephone Exchange area on the Isle of Wight (including Ningwood, Wellow, Thorley, Westhill, and Yarmouth) to receive high speed broadband enabling residents and businesses the ability to access speeds of up to 24Mbs.

According to recent statistics, malicious security attacks on businesses have risen markedly in the past year, writes Business Link South East.

Directgov mobile has launched a new door-to-door journey planner, in collaboration with Transport Direct.

The UK is set to benefit from a new generation of wireless services and improved mobile broadband coverage under new Government plans to revolutionise the country's digital infrastructure.

The European Research Council (ERC) has now funded over 1,000 innovative ideas and a further 661 million euros is still available for early-career researchers.

Navigate IT & Telecoms, previously Navigate Solutions LLP and Island Telecom, has launched a new brand identity and website.

With Cowes Week fast approaching, Cowes publisher The Knowledge Zone (TKZ) is preparing for a hectic week delivering news, reports, and video coverage of the world-famous regatta.

Cowes Week Limited has announced that Aastra is to be the official VoIP handset supplier for the sailing regatta from 31 July to 7 August.

The Technology Strategy Board drives innovation through the organisation and sponsorship of various competition programmes.

e-skills UK, the Sector Skills Council for Business and Information Technology, has teamed up with Get Safe Online and Business Crime Reduction Centre to help make small businesses more aware of the importance of IT security.

The Reality project, involving the construction of a biomass-fired CHP (Combined Heat and Power) plant at Stag Lane, Newport, is promoted by Real Ventures Ltd, a company established specifically for the purpose.

At the heart of the project is the Reality Energy Centre, a biomass CHP (Combined Heat and Power) plant which, when built and fully commissioned in 2013, will generate a significant output - 49 megawatts of electricity - through a connection to the local grid.

A major renewable energy project has been unveiled by an Island-based company who plan to create a £130 million, state-of-the-art, biomass-fired Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit on the Medina riverside.

Some new ideas are born out of necessity and others simply appear because the creation of other products and services enable them to happen, writes the Solent Innovation and Growth Team.

The race to get every UK citizen online by 2012 has begun and UK Digital Champion, Martha Lane Fox, has launched the Race Online 'Networked Nation' manifesto at Number 10 Downing Street.

The value of online sales by small businesses in the UK is estimated to be worth around £50 billion per year, and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) would like to hear from small firms about their online trading experiences and the barriers they face when trading on the internet.

Owning and running an electric car isn't such a long way down the road, following new European funding secured by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA).

Pioneering 'green tech' company HypoTech Ltd, has appointed Etetra Ltd to market its revolutionary natural cleansing and sanitisation products on a worldwide platform.

Intellect is the leading trade association for the technology sector which comprises the information and communications technologies (ICT), electronics manufacturing and design, and consumer electronics (CE) sectors, including defence and space-related IT.

Ofcom has drawn up a draft code of practice relating to the Digital Economy Act and is asking for your feedback.

The fledgling UK Space Agency is co-sponsoring the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) this year, writes Solent Innovation and Growth.