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£68m 'snooping' database: Little impact on serious crime
News Home Office proposals for phone, email and internet records - including VoIP - to be kept for 12 months are expected to cost taxpayers up to £68m to set up and £39m per year to run. R is for Remote working [13 Aug 2008]
Firefox 3.1 coming soon?
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Cheat Sheet: QR codes Working from home Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Developers working on the next version of Firefox aim to release a beta to... [07 Aug 2008]
Photos: The tech that holds up the net
Photo The invention of packet switching also meant NPL was home to another first. Here's someone working on NPL's Deuce computer in 1956. Packet switching is one of the crucial technologies that made the internet possible. [06 Aug 2008]
India: Low-cost, high-tech hub
News From laptops to mobile phones, and from cars - such as the $2,500 Tata Nano - to motorcycles and consumer durables, India is now home to several low-cost innovations. India's large and growing domestic market is helping both home-grown and... [06 Aug 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Cloud computing
Cheat Sheet The other big traditional tech vendors are all working on cloud services, with Microsoft starting to really embrace the internet following its initial slow start and SAP is working on an ambitious software package called Business by Design, which... [01 Aug 2008]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills is leading the way with 100 per cent of staff given laptops for home working, but the Ministry of Justice has just four per cent of staff able to work from home, putting it at the bottom of... [30 Jul 2008]
Microsoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News Of course the focus groups didn't have to install Vista or hook it up to their existing home network, however the emotional appeal of the "every man" trying Vista and liking it clearly packs an emotional punch. [24 Jul 2008]
Kent signs £32m outsourcing deal
News It will also support additional home, flexible and remote working in the county and help provide new information to residents. Schools, libraries and council offices in Kent are to be networked in a £32m outsourcing deal. [22 Jul 2008]
Working Green: Bottom-line Benefits of Telecommuting and Secure Remote Access
White Paper Companies are exploring the benefits of telecommuting, allowing their employees to work remotely from home. Growing concern about global warming is spilling into the business world. Most importantly, telecommuting boosts disaster recovery. [18 Jul 2008]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Travel substitution through teleconferencing or home working, for example, cannot happen without tech's close involvement. True sustainability is much more than hammering the data centre over power, says Martin Atherton. [17 Jul 2008]
O2 considers high fibre rollout
News O2 is considering investing in its own fibre-to-the-home network but wants to wait until Ofcom changes telecommunications regulation before it makes an investment. R is for Remote working BT has been explicit that it also wants to see these rules... [17 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Enough information to fill multiple CDs every second is flowing across the world on a network one thousand times faster than home broadband. Andrew Sansum, tier one manager at RAL, said its connection with Cern is about 1,000 times faster than the... [15 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News He said: "I feel the most relevance for general interest is gained from seeing things working, and being able to understand what they were used to do. And then you really appreciate what home and work activities have changed immensely over the last... [15 Jul 2008]
SAP Replaces Previous VPN Technology With F5's FirePass SSL VPN Solution, Ensuring Secure Remote Access for Nearly 7,000 Users Daily
White Paper SAP wanted to provide remote access to corporate applications to all employees, whether they were working out of the home office, a sales person at a client site performing a demo, or a consultant at a customer site who needed to connect back to... [11 Jul 2008]
Secure Computing Case Study: Concord Publishing House
White Paper With more than 200 employees working in multiple locations, including home offices, Concord Publishing needed to ensure that its employees have unrestricted access to many different sites, including those that under normal circumstances might be... [11 Jul 2008]
