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RSS desksHow Does Your IT Help Desk Measure Up?
White Paper Today's IT help desks must respond to their companies' ever-growing service needs - without increasing their already strained staff and budgets. How efficient do you think your IT help desk really is? [13 Jan 2009]
Designing Tangible Programming Languages for Classroom Use
White Paper Students create programs in offline settings - on their desks or on the floor - and use a portable scanning station to compile their code. This paper describes a new technique for implementing educational programming... [19 Dec 2008]
F-Secure Protects Fun in Mirabilandia
White Paper Mirabilandia was looking for an efficient information security product for the 150 computers used in the various functions of the park, such as administrative offices and cash desks. Parco della Standiana (Mirabilandia)... [10 Dec 2008]
Techies happy to migrate to get a job
News UK IT workers are ready to clear more than their desks if the right job comes calling. The vast majority (81 per cent) of techies would happily up sticks and move abroad if a job or work opportunity landed in their lap,... [09 Dec 2008]
Extend SMS Messaging to the Desktop Using Windows
White Paper While most SMS messages are sent on the go, a huge portion of them are sent when stationary - while people are at their desks, working. SMS messaging is one of the most common forms of communication. People send SMS... [28 Nov 2008]
Investment Company Employees Improve Collaboration With Unified Communications
White Paper Most of its employees spend the day at their desks using Voice over IP (VoIP) and e-mail to collaborate with colleagues, business partners, and clients. Switzerland-based Horizon21 is a successful financial services... [04 Nov 2008]
Trialware: Improving Customer Support and Help Desk Efficiencies with On-Demand Remote Support
White Paper Sure, you can visit all your employees or customers and solve their support issues at their desks. Now you can sit at your desk and solve the toughest support problems, remotely. But why not save a lot of time and solve... [02 Sep 2008]
Olympics a non-starter for office workers
News Office workers are set to snub the greatest show on earth in favour of knuckling down at their desks. While China prepares for a frenzy of co-ordinated enthusiasm for the Beijing Olympics, three-quarters of the 100... [08 Aug 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.08.08
Round-Up In a company of 2,000 staff, spread over several floors with desks approximately five metres apart these star athletes could cover the Olympic distance simply walking between colleagues' desks. It's not... [01 Aug 2008]
Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors
Photo After squinting and peering hopelessly through years of screen grime, and finally resorting to moving desks to gain shade from a nearby tree, I'm eventually up and running, and connected to the wi-fi. [08 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up Office workers now see less sunshine than coal miners", reckons BT, pointing out two-thirds of workers admit to being depressed at being chained to their desks… (but the Round-Up is not suggesting this is the answer. [20 Jun 2008]
Tesco spends £100m on network overhaul
News The contract with Cable & Wireless (C&W) is intended to free office staff from their desks by using mobile VoIP phones, allow remote experts to advise customers on the best wines or gadgets via video kiosks and transmit... [28 May 2008]
AstraZeneca simplifies outsourcing rules
News Services provided by IBM under the deal include server and storage hosting, service desks, PC management, network and comms and computer operations support. Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has simplified its approach to... [19 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up According to an Associated Press report, workers at the conference centre disinfected surfaces including food preparation tables, escalator handrails, desks and bathrooms to reduce the risk of the virus spreading further. [16 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food
Comment If only the interface designers sat on these desks for a month. Copy dispatched via a free wi-fi hotel service in Athens. If I could be God for a day there are many things I would put right for humanity and planet Earth. [14 Apr 2008]
