home working in comment and analysis
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Travel substitution through teleconferencing or home working, for example, cannot happen without tech's close involvement. True sustainability is much more than hammering the data centre over power, says Martin Atherton. [17 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security scare
Comment Written at home after a sleepless night thinking about real risks and dispatched via my home LAN. Ditto for all working folders. Exclusive column: The Naked CIO See what this CIO really thinks… The Naked CIO: Business misintelligence [18 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly
Comment You know how it is: you're in a coffee shop working online and using the free wi-fi service. This all came home to me recently as I worked on a project where it was necessary to measure the far-field strength at distances of 5m to 50m. [13 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: WFH, LOL?
Comment No wonder more people are now working from home than ever before. The figures I've just quoted come from WorkWise UK, the group behind the National Working from Home day, which took place last week. As we had conducted a similar experiment last... [21 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up Work Wise was hoping that millions of workers would sample the benefits of working from home, such as avoiding crowded public transport, (or perhaps avoiding driving to work in this). Phil Flaxton, chief executive of Work Wise UK, said: "The... [16 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom
Comment Other simple energy-saving measures would involve a move to less power hungry laptops and thin clients, plus of course far more mobile, nomadic and home working. Between 10 and 20 years ago designers and architects made assumptions about the use of... [16 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment In other cases it is home working that enables staff to work in the first place - for example, agents of virtual call centres permanently based at home. Home-working provides flexibility to those with families and also lets employees communicate... [24 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment How home users are fuelling the botnet networks 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 office has at least one dedicated cyber... [15 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up The executive in charge of Windows, Steven Sinofsky, struggled to get his own home printer working with Vista according to the paper. People working in airports and other security risk areas are also unlikely to be breathing the free air for much... [07 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Time to wage war on home users
Comment I am now conducting a full assault on our home working policy to minimise the management, overhead and responsibility we take for these people. On top of that, once a company PC is in the home we in IT then have to support it, which often means... [04 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Christmas wish list
Comment R is for Remote working Real broadband to my office and home at speeds above 100Mbit/s dedicated to me and me alone - no contention, please. Every year of my life seems to have been challenging for one reason or another. [20 Dec 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment In fact, it became apparent they were sending out the Trojans specifically during working hours for specific time zones to maximise the chance of getting the host infected. Botnets gave them the anonymity they required and the increasing... [19 Nov 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X
Comment And during my time working as a linesman for the phone company, plus my 10 years at university, I found my early craft experience absolutely invaluable. Human generations have mastered new technologies and working practices by standing on the... [29 Oct 2007]
Q&A: Graham Linehan, writer and director of The IT Crowd
Comment While we were sitting together at my PC I asked him why don't you get more IT guys making home visits and he said: "Well, most of them don't have the people skills. Have you had any experience working within IT and, if so, are you drawing from that... [12 Oct 2007]
Leader: Is BT-FON deal a real mesh?
Leader There is quite a debate that rages about whether you should share your home broadband connection when it is flung beyond the walls of your home using wi-fi. There are those who want a completely locked down, it's-mine-mine-mine home wireless network. [04 Oct 2007]
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