Working from home
Does your business really need an office?
Comment Working from home or from a coffee shop then become available options, chosen according to the task in hand. In this age of mobile working, should... [17 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The Home Office announced today that people living or working in Manchester will now be able to enrol their details for an ID card from 30 November, with the first cards issued around 10... [16 Nov 2009]
Photos: Firefox through the ages
Photo While the official Mozilla effort still was working on the unified browser and email software package dating back to the Netscape era, Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross began work on a simplified browser initially called Phoenix. [10 Nov 2009]
Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo By connecting at-home medicine dispensing to their network, AT&T will facilitate the monitoring of health services by family and doctors. Rather than having to look at X-rays or other medical images on small mobile... [09 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine? Part II
Comment Working from home When working from home in the mornings I usually have five or six Firefox browser tabs open, one or two Internet... [09 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Working with one such machine was a challenging task for Osborne, with its 2,500 vacuum tubes radiating heat and the risk of the reels of punched tape flying loose from the machine. The best thing was... [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo This allows staff from different departments and working in different locations to collaborate on designing the model. Each person who is working within a wave will see the same image,... [02 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... [02 Nov 2009]
Where to make the biggest bucks working in IT
News The second highest rewards go to those working in the IT, web and telecom sectors, where IT workers take home £42,360 each year. Techies in these industries collect about £8,000 more than the £35,452... [01 Oct 2009]
The Power of Connections
White Paper With avirtual private network (VPN), employees can securely connect to your network, even when working from home or on the road. Keeping your employees connected to people and... [28 Sep 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News But it's coming, Rattner said, illustrating his point with help from 3eality Digital, which showed a professional camera that can shoot live 3D video, and Silicon Valley start-up HDI, which is working on... [28 Sep 2009]
The PC is past it: Computing power is everywhere, says Intel
News However, he noted that working to the technology continuum is a different proposition from working to Moore's Law. In his keynote speech to developers on Tuesday, Otellini drove... [24 Sep 2009]
Want to boost your pay packet? Get yourself a bigger employer
News While working for a SME might have a lot of rewards - more flexible working hours, perhaps, or even a greater degree of job security - it will not bring you the biggest financial reward, new research has... [11 Sep 2009]
Want to run iPhone apps on Windows phones?
News While the demonstration used a prototype handset from Texas Instruments, Krishnamurti says VMware is working closely with handset makers now, but says the initiative may be two or three years... [03 Sep 2009]
Kids today: Don't fear the Millennials at work
Comment They may be little dictators at home but then I wasn't all that nice to live with at 15 either. After working in schools, Richard Leyland tells a different story. Instead they tended to speak about the... [24 Aug 2009]