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Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine? Part II
Comment After working from home for an hour or so, I shut down the netbook and headed into the office for 9am. That evening, once satisfied I had everything set up as I wanted it, I left my old machine in the... [09 Nov 2009]
£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News The Home Office has announced a £39m deal to help emergency services comms cope during the London 2012 Olympic Games. As a result, the system will be able to cater for thousands more users from within... [03 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine?
Comment I start each day by working from home for a couple of hours before making my way into the office. As a sub editor for silicon.com, my working day is broken down by a mixture of home and... [02 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.09.09
Round-Up Leaving the Halloween terrors behind us, let's talk of an issue similarly likely to strike horror into the sturdiest of office workers: should you be friends with your boss on Facebook? Still, if you can't work out who... [30 Oct 2009]
Mind the details with Windows 7
Comment The systems have included a seven-year-old single-core Pentium 4, right up to a dual processor, 8 core behemoth, with the most recent being a 64-bit installation on a high-end Core i7 system that has just become my new... [23 Oct 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Every office generates so much email, IM and internet traffic it's all but impossible for management to keep track of exactly what's being said, seen and done online. Covert monitoring of staff communications is only... [22 Oct 2009]
It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News The government has committed £80m to ramp up police smartphone use by funding the deployment of 30,000 mobile data devices by 2010 - with the Home Office's plan being to increase police visibility in... [20 Oct 2009]
ID cards: 10,000 Brits want to sign up
News According to the Home Office, to date 10,000 people have asked for further information on applying for a card through the DirectGov site. Photo credit: Home Office)... [19 Oct 2009]
Google unleashes biggest ever Apps rollout for 35,000 users
News Around 20,000 of these will be regular PC users while the other 15,000 will be staff who work away from the office and currently do without a company email address. We've now got the opportunity to provide mail... [12 Oct 2009]
Home Office inks £430m deals with Atos Origin, Fujitsu
News The Home Office has announced it's extending IT contracts with suppliers Atos Origin and Fujitsu, under new deals worth £430m. The Home Office claims the contract... [12 Oct 2009]
Service Company Handles Escalated Calls Faster, Cuts Labor and Training Costs
White Paper To solve this problem, NEW deployed Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, which offers persistent group chat functionality. About 1,400 customer service agents are home-based, and NEW needed an... [02 Oct 2009]
Gary McKinnon
AS Profile The latest development in the case was the Home Office's decision it would be unlawful for the Home Secretary to halt the proceedings, given a High Court decision to allow the... [29 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News Another trailblazer for open source in the public sector is the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Field predicted the areas of the public sector where open source could flourish was within organisations that... [29 Sep 2009]
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... [22 Sep 2009]
Dell settles fraud case with $4m
News The PC maker will pay out $4m to settle a case initially filed in 2007, New York's Office of the Attorney General said on Tuesday. His office released a statement on Tuesday saying that the $4m would be... [16 Sep 2009]
