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Scottish Highlands Adventure Travel Destination?

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Come to the Scottish Highlands for your next adventure holiday. This article (which I’m not sure I totally believe) says its a great area for exciting, activity holidays. And its true. Skiing in the winter, hill walking in winter – if you are truly nuts – and summer. Kite surfing, golfing, fishing, flying about on [...]

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Free Hosting for Highlands Software

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Scottish Highlands software developers can now host and distribute their work to the global market, for free. As Mashable explains in this article, Amazon will provide everything they need to get their software out there, provided of course it’s written to display in web pages. I can’t imagine anybody is writing software to run on [...]

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Forget the Cuts We Need a Smaller Public Sector

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Public sector organisation and provision of services is bad for business. Cutting back the burgeoning public sector in Scotland will be essential for reversing the country’s endemic economic decline. And the Highlands desperately needs a change, to allow private sector businesses to flourish. Until we get that about turn in direction, declines in living standards, [...]

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Amazon Web Services Offers Free Cloud Access

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Image via CrunchBase With FREE web hosting Scottish Highlands software providers can finally exploit the Internet, as Mashable explains with this summary of the recent Amazon Web Services announcement. The word gets flatter everyday with innovation like this and opportunities for Highlands based businesses expand exponentially as a result. We’re no longer constrained by geography, [...]

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Now We Can All Get Published, Wherever We Create

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Have you heard about Apple’s iBookstore?  Copyblogger gives us the inside track on how Scottish Highlands authors can get published in the new iBookstore. With the iBookstore there will be plenty of competition no doubt but this has to be the biggest opportunity ever for authors and other content creators living in the Highlands. Now [...]

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Public Sector Pain Is Everybody’s Gain

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More support for public sector reform in this brave article by the Caledonian Mercury. Watch out for the flying pickets guys. And the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts doesn’t exactly sound like a hot bed of radical, capitalist thinking does it. Between them they’ve given support to changes which should have been made [...]

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What a Mess Wantage

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The difference between the Highlands and the South of England is immeasurable. And it’s not just in the lifestyle. It’s mostly about the environment, which includes the lifestyle, I guess, and certainly influences it. Quality of life in the Highlands is one aspect where the grass is definitely not greener on the other side of [...]

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Avantrasara

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The Scottish Highlands will become a centre of excellence for Life Science industries, as is demonstrated by the P4 Digital Healthcare conference and the convergence of policy makers, healthcare providers and technology vendors. But there is already a small business based in the Highlands pioneering collaboration across Europe. Avantrasara works with research institutes, clinicians, major [...]

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Front Office Box

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The Scottish Highlands seems an unlikely base for global software as a service, especially one helping smaller businesses make the most of their opportunities and resources. That type of Internet business model, and Web 2.0 implementation is much more at home in Silicon Valley where markets, technologies, services and support are much more accessible. But [...]

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P4 Leads the Way for Digital Healthcare

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Highlands and Islands Enterprise – HIE – is leading the way for digital healthcare with its P4 Digital Healthcare conference in Inverness over two days starting September 30th. Here’s a summary of the programme from P4 Digital Healthcare Convention “Following its recent successful summit on the development and delivery of healthcare via distance technologies, where [...]

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