home office in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment Some 20 years ago I was running a series of experiments involving multiple home and office fixed and mobile devices. Written while flying from London to Rome and dispatched on arrival at my hotel via a 3G HSDPA data service. [22 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up This week, after 30-odd years at the helm of the company he founded with Paul Allen, Gates formally left Microsoft, driving back home like any other retiring office worker. Albeit an office worker who lives in a high-tech mansion that cost $140m. [27 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Rural v City fat pipe row and ID cards
Comment Not sure where and how Ofcom carried out this survey but we have offices in Southampton, Taunton, Bristol and Birmingham with staff living in 'rural' areas around all of them and have had issues in all regions, and don't get me started on services... [29 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: WFH, LOL?
Comment That's why last Thursday most of the silicon.com team worked from home - to see whether we could function as normal with no one in the office. It highlighted for us the important ways in which working from home is different to being in the office. [21 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up Office workers across the UK were urged to stay at home yesterday. And the rest of them got a bit lonely and were grateful to return to the warm embrace of silicon.com towers this morning, vowing never to leave the office again, or at least not... [16 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom
Comment Between 10 and 20 years ago designers and architects made assumptions about the use of office space and people's working practices. Other simple energy-saving measures would involve a move to less power hungry laptops and thin clients, plus of... [16 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with the Information Commissioner's Office since April 2005, has stopped data transfers unless there is a business critical need, and now demands adequate security... [02 May 2008]
'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves
Comment Speaking at Gartner's Enterprise Networking & Communications Summit, London-based media company Pearson - which has been using a telepresence system since 2001 - explained that, yes, videoconferencing has allowed its senior execs to reduce trips... [28 Apr 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment And for those with the highest DBI, network downtime has much more impact on external and mobile workers than it does on office-bound ones. The need for enriched communications extends to those workers who spend some or all their time outside the... [24 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment This week, readers had a thing or two to say about the Home Office consultancy bill and were not best pleased by the mounting cost of ID cards. I suspect that, once more, the only thing this highlights is total incompetence at the Home Office. [17 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment O'Neal works at the cyber division headquarters at the FBI main office in Washington. Four to five years ago there were several offices that may have had one or two agents tied to a white collar crime squad working cyber crime, now every field... [15 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment The success of data encryption in preserving the confidentiality of information was demonstrated recently by the discovery of a confidential Home Office disc found hidden in a laptop sold via online auction site eBay. [27 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment Because of the government 'Degrees for All' policy, even the dumbest, most unpromising students get rubbish degrees, which they then believe entitles them to a cushy job in a nice warm office. All car owners forced to pay for a car crime police... [20 Mar 2008]
Retail leaders will open up in tough times
Comment His premise is that retailers can no longer keep all that messy back-office stuff behind closed doors. JLP is a quirky retailer in many ways, with profits shared out among all staff and its strong commitment to home-shopping through its... [13 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment Once in my office, I buy flowers for delivery to my significant other, purchase a golfing magazine subscription, pay some bills and buy an iTunes gift voucher for a friend - all using my credit or debit card information. [25 Feb 2008]
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