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RSS home officeePassport upgrade scaled back
News H is for Home Office The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has scaled back plans to upgrade its electronic passport system. Millions had been spent on the Electronic Passport Application (EPA2) project upgrade. [02 Jul 2008]
Museum of computing looks for new home
News Staff at The Museum of Computing in Swindon are hopeful of finding a new site after being given office space to store its thousands of exhibits for 18 months. A museum dedicated to the history of computing is looking for a new home and its... [02 Jul 2008]
NZAA Turns to Avaya to Improve Call Centre Efficiency and Regional Office Productivity
White Paper Additionally, the NZAA uses the Avaya Voice Portal to deploy a new application enabling members to book roadside jobs from home. The New Zealand Automobile Association (NZAA) needed to implement a new communications platform after Avaya ended... [02 Jul 2008]
Mitigating Attacks in VoIP Environments
White Paper VoIP is becoming an equivalently pervasive solution in the Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) market. Wide-scale Voice over IP (VoIP) implementations based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and H.323 are gaining traction and are starting to be... [01 Jul 2008]
Hidden Dangers in the Mobile Worker Jungle: Provide Fast and Secure Access for Remote Workers
White Paper Regardless of whether they are in a home office or on the other side of the globe, speed and dependability are the keys to successfully doing their jobs. It is a jungle out there, particularly now that millions of workers work remotely, placing new... [30 Jun 2008]
MHMR Center Health Workers Spend More Time with Patients
White Paper MHMR clinicians are seeing increased productivity by no longer having to coordinate their schedules around office visits to gather and upload patient information, instead performing these tasks at the point-of-care. [30 Jun 2008]
Psomas Achieves Global Work-Sharing and Accelerates the Mobile Worker
White Paper Now we get the same kinds of results whether it's the field crews out at job sites, home-based workers that need to collaborate with office staff or small offices where we couldn't put an appliance in place. [30 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up This week, after 30-odd years at the helm of the company he founded with Paul Allen, Gates formally left Microsoft, driving back home like any other retiring office worker. Albeit an office worker who lives in a high-tech mansion that cost $140m. [27 Jun 2008]
Flexible working still a stigma, say techies
News Nearly a fifth (17.4 per cent) said they believe flexible working has a negative effect on career progression, with some respondents saying employers see them as less committed to their job if they are not in the office. [25 Jun 2008]
Photos: Say hello to Intel's little helpers
Photo As technology in the home becomes more prevalent, more and more automated devices are likely to help out around the home and office. Home medical monitoring and testing is an area in which Intel plans huge growth into the future. [18 Jun 2008]
Photos: Nokia adds to Eseries line-up
Photo Keeping with a work/life balance theme, Petersen said Nokia has recognised business users want to use their phones for fun stuff like taking photos and playing games out of office hours, so both handsets support Nokia's Ovi entertainment platform... [17 Jun 2008]
E-crime unit on track, says police chief
News It comes after Home Office minister Vernon Coaker told a House of Lords science and technology committee that the National Fraud Reporting Centre (NFRC) could take the lead on co-ordinating e-crime investigations nationwide. [13 Jun 2008]
ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk
News The report says the Home Office should produce a report setting out how the scheme will be used to fight crime and guaranteeing it will not be used to routinely "monitor the activities of individuals". [09 Jun 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News The Association of Chief Police Officers and the Metropolitan Police Service are waiting to see if the Home Office will grant £1.3m in start-up costs for their proposed Policing Central E-crime Unit, which would co-ordinate cyber crime... [06 Jun 2008]
Cyber crime: The global battle
News Acpo and the Metropolitan Police Service are waiting to see if the Home Office will grant £1.3m in start-up costs for their proposed Policing Central E-crime Unit, which would co-ordinate cyber crime investigations by local forces nationwide. [05 Jun 2008]
