The annual Menta trade fair takes place next Wednesday 8th September at the West Wing in Ickworth near Bury St Edmunds between 3.30pm and 7.00pm. Sponsored by Atkins Thompson Solicitors, the Menta fair allows small businesses from Suffolk to exhibit as well as providing an ideal opportunity for networking.

Junari will be in attendance demonstrating their ever-popular Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software junariCRM, as well as some examples of their iPhone apps.

Sage have today announced that the hosted version of their CRM product is now available for upgrade to version 7.

Entries are now open for the 2010 Essex Business Awards for the Colchester area. Celebrating the best of business in the region, the Essex Business Awards winners will be announced at a gala event at Charter Hall in Colchester on Novermber 26th 2010.

Fuill details, including entry forms can be found on the Essex Business Awards website.

The UK arm of Zurich Insurance have been fined £2.3 million for losing the personal data of 46,000 customers. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) report that this is the largest fine levied on a UK firm for Data Protection Act breaches.

For many years, people "in the know" have propagated stories claiming Microsoft Internet Explorer is inferior to Firefox, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome when it comes to security vulnerabilities. Unbeknownst to these same people, security specialists NSS Labs have been testing the top 5 internet browsers and their findings make for surprising reading.