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Budgeting for Christmas


his year’s Autumn Statement was a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand, full expensing could mean lower corporation tax for businesses that are able to invest – and investment in innovation centres and the


focus on making the UK into an ‘AI powerhouse’ are welcome boosts for the tech industry. On the other hand, the news that growth is stunted isn’t great for anticipated spending by consumers and small business, which has already started this Christmas season at a lower than traditional level.


In this month’s issue we tackle networking and communications and Alan Hayward at SEH


Technology takes a look at what the rest of 2023 has in store, while Kalam Meah of TP-Link considers how Wi-Fi 7 will enable the education, hospitality and healthcare industries to embrace innovation and deliver improved business outcomes, and Sean Lowry of Glide discusses how next-gen connectivity solutions benefit managed services providers.


With gaming soaring ever higher in popularity, Iwona Zalewska from Kingston argues that


boosting gaming performance by upgrading can slash the financial and environmental cost. Retail errors and fraud can have significant impact on the bottom line especially at peak times


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such as the impending Black Friday and Christmas shopping season. Pricing mistakes on labels pose a significant challenge, but new solutions can make them a thing of the past, as Simon Brennan from Brother UK explains and Monica Eaton Chargebacks911, looks at the growth of chargebacks while James Sherlow of Cequence Security discusses how tech retailers can use the ecommerce killchain to protect their APIs.


For this month’s interviews, we catch up with Mike Botto to find out about Spire Technology’s


partnerships and the future; with Richard Czech of Cubbit to explore what the company is offering to channel partners; and Dan Waters of Snowflake who talks about the importance of SMB partners.


I hope you find this issue informative and interesting.


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