office from home
RSS office from homeGov't to spend £300m on free broadband for UK's poor
News A recent report by the Office for National Statistics found children with home broadband typically achieve better GCSE results. Nearly every family in the UK is to have access to broadband at... [23 Sep 2008]
'Uncloneable' biometric passports pass the test
News A spokeswoman for the Home Office said that additional protection on second generation chips would "prevent the chip data from being cloned". The UK was one of 27 countries that took... [22 Sep 2008]
Automatic VPN Client Recovery From IPsec Pass-Through Failures
White Paper Network Address Translation (NAT) is often used in routers that connect home and small-office networks to the Internet. Unfortunately, NAT may not interoperate well with many protocols, including IPsec,... [19 Sep 2008]
Inbox: iPhone, the Facebook generation and the IT skills shortage
Comment For the first time in years the Home Office has got it right. The Home Office has got it right My son went out to buy an iPhone but he came home with a... [17 Sep 2008]
Legal Eye: Who's to blame for data loss?
Comment Certainly the Home Office has declared its intention to apply the lessons learned to future contracts where sensitive data is to be provided to external consultants. In August PA Consulting, working as... [17 Sep 2008]
Editor's Blog: Reely good news on video
Comment Wondering how to cope with the Facebook generation swamping your office? To showcase this content, we have been working across the summer on a new video home page (which you can find here) for all our... [16 Sep 2008]
Yo!Sushi going all IP
Case Study Sushi's head office got the system some 18 months ago and Walters said the company will complete the upgrade of its 35 restaurants in four to eight weeks. There's no planning required - if we suddenly decide we're going... [15 Sep 2008]
Vista finds a home on 1,300 Canterbury Uni desktops
News As part of the migration, the university has also moved to Microsoft's Office 2007 package. Canterbury Christ Church University has moved to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system in time for the new academic year. [15 Sep 2008]
Migration rules to fuel IT offshoring?
News A Home Office spokesman told silicon.com: "The MAC's data analysis showed that IT workers were not necessarily in shortage here. Despite a well-documented domestic IT skills shortage - and projections of... [11 Sep 2008]
Data loss consultants sacked by Home Office
News The Home Office has dumped the firm that lost details of 84,000 prisoners last month and says it will push to recover its costs. Now the Home Office says it will seek to... [10 Sep 2008]
First 50,000 ID cards issued in November
News Home Office minister Meg Hillier also told parliament that the results of talks with "key stakeholders" in the public, private and voluntary sectors from across the UK will be released... [09 Sep 2008]
Ad gurus called in to help ID cards
News The Home Office has enlisted the help of advertising agency M&C Saatchi to promote the national ID card scheme. H is for Home Office A Home... [09 Sep 2008]
Regulators cracking down on outsourcers
Comment Just last week sensitive information on criminals was lost by a Home Office contractor - and this weekend it has emerged data on 5,000 staff also has gone missing, resulting in embarrassment and front... [09 Sep 2008]
CIOs: All our apps will be in the cloud by 2013
News Google and Microsoft have been leading the push to the cloud, with popular online collaboration services in the shape of Google Apps and Office Live Workspace, while the likes of salesforce.com and its rivals have long... [08 Sep 2008]
Two-thirds of Brits want to do it from home
News A Plantronics survey of 1,400 office workers has found almost two-thirds (62 per cent) believe they would be happier and more productive working from home but three-quarters (75 per... [05 Sep 2008]
