Smartphone technology 'popular among entrepreneurial small firms'
Date posted: 07 Sep 2010
A number of entrepreneurial small firms are keen to adopt smartphone technology, new research suggests.
Published by Tim Hill.
Smartphone technology is proving useful to many entrepreneurial small firms in the UK, the findings of new research suggest.
Such devices are being adopted by as many as 65 per cent of smaller-scale companies who are aiming to expand their operations in the near future, figures from Barclays, ACCA and the Open University Business School have revealed.
The organisations' Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain has also found that internet and email services are currently being accessed by 48 per cent of small firms with the help of smartphones.
Some laptop applications can now be accessed via smartphones, according to the Barclays Business managing director Steve Cooper.
He stated: "Businesses can log on, make payments, send through an invoice, do their word-processing and catch up on emails while standing at a patisserie in Lille."
Entrepreneurs have also learned this month that the Forum of Private Business is set to offer online guidance to small firms at 11 regional events.
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