United Kingdom VAT Rate Change in OnlineOffice.

On Monday December 1st. 2008 the applicable VAT rate will change from 17.5 % to 15 % until December 31st. 2009.

As you would expect with our OnlineOffice this change is happening automatically in the Sales Module (Invoicing and Proposals), Accounting Module and in the Cashbook Module. No updates or new software to load, meaning less hassle for you.

However you may receive input invoices during December with are either 17.5 % or 15 % VAT. We have prepared for you a short guide on how to account for these different rates. As usual our 24 hour live support staff is standing by for any questions you may have or help you may need - making this transition as painless as possible.

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WinWeb’s OnlineOffice is Entrepreneurs Online Support Service

The Belfast Telegraph writes about entrepreneurs and small business owners needing services and support at an affordable cost. Small business is most venerable during times of recession and credit crunch, receiving affordable support is essential if these small businesses are to survive in this harsh economic environment.

In it’s article it focuses on WinWeb’s 24 hour per day, everyday live support for entrepreneurs and small business owners, as integral part of OnlineOffice. With this support, entrepreneurs can focus on developing revenues rather than becoming overwhelmed with administration.

Read more at: belfasttelegraph.co.uk

OnlineOffice - Small Business Tool In Recession

Stuart Jones, an accountant with firm 3CA and small business freelance journalist in the UK’s Lake District writes in the Westmorland Gazette, how business can get advice and help during these times of recession and credit crunch.

He advises his readers to use WinWeb’s OnlineOffice to take advantage of all the benefits that online technology has to offer small business today. Not only is it available anywhere at anytime, helps with data security and business continuity, but it saves money and time as well.

Read more at: thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk

WinWeb - winweb.com vs. WinWeb Security - winwebsecurity.com

Winweb Security (winwebsecurity.com) is not connected to either WinWeb International Limited, WinWeb Inc., or WinWeb (Australia) Pty. Ltd. , winweb.com or any other connected company or doamin name in any way or form.

We believe the activities of WinWeb Security not only to be malicious to many thousands of Microsoft Windows users, but also a breach of our trademark ‘WinWeb’. We are acting accordingly in this matter, through legal channels in the US.

WinWeb SecureTec is about online security for our online customers with respect to our server farm, their data with us and not about virus protecting external PCs. WinWeb provides software and business services online to start and run a small business.

We have been trying to help thousands of people - even non customers of ours - who contacted us with the ‘Winweb Security Problem’, by providing them with a shortcut to online information regarding this menace, for the obvious reason, to prevent further damage to our reputation, trademark and our business.

The use of Whois Tools allows to establish who registered winweb.com and who registered winwebsecurity.com

For legal reasons we can not make any further statements with respect to this matter. We will however continue to monitor this situation and help everyone who contacts us about this problem.

Virus/malware winweb.exe problem.

It has come to our attention that there seems to be a computer virus/malware program affecting many Microsoft Windows operating systems, called winweb.exe. Obviously this has nothing to do with WinWeb, but never the less people call and email us about it, understandably angry and upset. We do not install software since all of our software and business services for small business are online only, we also have no product that scans your computer for viruses.

This problem became apparent sometime on Friday and has been growing ever since. Most good antivirus products are up-to-date and can deal with this virus. Our support team has done some research and is issuing some free advise for this problem.

If you are affected by this, please press the ‘chat’ icon in the upper right hand corner of this page. Our 24/7 live support team will share with you what we know about this problem and how to fix it. They will also update everyone once we hear about successful removals and other updates.

The most important piece of advice is to keep your antivirus software up-to-date. Here are a couple of free antivirus/malware scanners:

• http://free.avg.com/
• http://housecall.trendmicro.com

If you had this virus and know of a sure way to fix it, please let us know so that we can update everybody else.

UPDATE: Please also see here for more information on how to delete the problem.

‘Business’09 - Win £10,000′ Competition And Unleash It! Challenge Goes Live.

London/New York/Brisbane, November 17th., 2008. Today Winweb launches it’s long anticipated ‘Business’09 - Win £10,000‘ campaign for small business and pre-entrepreneurs. The launch coincides with Global Entrepreneurship Week and Enterprise Week 2008. The finalists and winners will be announced during the same events next year.

WinWeb makes it’s own 15th anniversary celebration into a ’start and run your own small business celebration’, honoring individuals and small business owners, who have the courage to turn their dreams into reality.

WinWeb and It’s Supporters & Sponsors have set themselves a Unleash It! Challenge until Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009, to be instrumental and inspire at least 1000 new business startups.

‘We are recognizing the fact that small business makes up to 95 % of all businesses worldwide, generates over 50 % of GDP, a staggering 60 % of all innovations and have a long lasting positive impact on local communities world wide’, says Stefan Töpfer, CEO of WinWeb.

The questions asked in the competition will provide an inside to entrepreneurs thinking prior to and after launching a small business. These findings will be published in a separate report later next year. Especially in these times of economic downturn it is essential to understand the motivation of ‘would be small business owners’, to foster an environment in which small business can flourish.

Encouraging small business owners and budding entrepreneurs with the inside that starting a small business often does not need money, but primarily time, is another way by which the campaign hopes to help in the creation of new small businesses.

WinWeb enlists the help of a high caliber panel chaired by Professor Ian Angell of the London School of Economics(LSE) along with media and small business professionals from Europe, the United States and Australia. WinWeb encourages media and new media, especially bloggers, to support the campaign and to help make it a success and reach WinWeb’s goal of starting a minimum of a 1000 small business during the next twelve months. The independent panel will report in on the final number of small business startups during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009.

‘If our joint efforts would bring about the creation of only 1000 new small businesses worldwide, and I believe we can start many more, then this campaign will have been a great success for all involved, so we ask for as much support as possible. I would love to see this campaign to go viral, to maximize the benefits to society as a whole. This is our Unleash It! Challenge during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008′, says Stefan Töpfer. Details, on how to get involved, can be found on the campaign website under ‘Support Us.’

Regular updates of the Business’09 Campaign will be available at the two official campaign blogs, the WinWeb Blog and The Small Business Blog and other supporting media and blogs.

About WinWeb and Media Info

WinWeb was founded in 1994 by Stefan Töpfer and has become the leading provider of on-demand online software (SaaS) and real business services to the 1 to 10 people SOHO and Micro Business Market. Based on WinWeb’s OnlineOffice, the Small Business Infrastructure has provided hundreds of thousands entrepreneurs with an micro business eco-system. This enables the micro business owner to access professional services on a time-shared basis for ad-hoc, projects, short-term or long-term demand, enhancing the businesses competitiveness and productivity, while keeping cost down and variable. This greatly enhances long-term survival of micro businesses.

Media Contact: Mr. Simon Robinsons of Farm Street Communications, London, U.K.

Telephone: +44 (0) 207 436 9844

LaunchLab on how to have your ‘Head in the Cloud.’

Dan Matthews of LaunchLab.co.uk is contemplating how he and his readers can get their ‘head in the cloud.’ Rather than ranting about tie etiquette, Barack Obama and other highly topical subjects, he has decided to rant a little about cloud computing. He describes how small business can benefit from the technology.

He makes reference to WinWeb and our OnlineOffice, which of cause is ‘cloud computing’. With ten years experience in this technology we are the fore-runners of the ‘cloud computing’ industry. Anyway, we think it’s a great rant, Dan.

Read the full story at: launchlab.co.uk

‘You Can’t Help But Win With WinWeb’ Writes Daily Express.

Alison Coleman of the Daily Express writes in their franchise section about WinWeb’s OnlineOffice 5 and remarks that you ‘can’t help but win with WinWeb.’

She makes the valid statement that most small businesses lack the financial resources to get good business support. Followed by a great piece of writing about how OnlineOffice is the right tool at the right price for micro and small businesses, which includes franchisees. The Daily Express is renowned in the United Kingdom for its support of the franchise industry.

Read the full story at: dailyexpress.co.uk