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ID tech tightens up compliance

Comment Companies should also develop policies around use of portable storage devices such as CDs and USB memory sticks and consider using technologies to block their use so that they cannot be used to leak data out of an organisation.

Tags: identity management, data protection, compliance, printers

[18 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…

Comment As if these figures aren't scary enough, I notice there is no mention of how many portable hard drives (USB sticks, flash drives etc) staff from the government have lost since 2001. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this...

Tags: vista, data, anpr, sp1

[21 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast

Comment On a wider front we actually look to be well on the way to a thinner client world where the portable device doesn't descend to the utility of its 1970s and 1980s predecessor, the technologically skinny VDU.

Tags: wi-fi, mobile, laptops, thin client

[28 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Tax man's stamp bill, more lost data, unencrypted laptops…

Comment Who authorised it and, presumably, dictated the form of portable device to be used and what security was required? The ability to copy data onto portable devices, be it CD, DVD or portable drive should be extremely limited.

Tags: encryption, whitehall, hmrc, laptops

[24 Jan 2008]

Data centre in a box

Comment Wind forward 30 years and you know real progress has been made when you find yourself talking about portable data centres. Remember the first portable computers in the 1970s and 1980s? More luggable than portable, they weighed at least 13kg and you...

Tags: sun, data centre

[18 Jun 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wi-fi radiation scare

Comment And yet strangely no one has spotted that domestic microwave ovens with faulty doors have a 1,000-fold greater density of radiation than wi-fi - or, even worse, the potential damage to thumbs and fingers that suffer radiation from car keys and...

Tags: peter cochrane, wi-fi health risk, wi-fi

[29 May 2007]

The McCue Interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Boots

Comment When we originally set up the Advantage Card scheme we had the choice of magnetic stripe or chip and we went for chip because we can hold so much more data we can make the scheme flexible and portable.

Tags: rob fraser, boots

[25 Apr 2007]

Unwired: Welcome to our LAN

Comment To ensure maximum productivity from these workers, companies must provide adequate facilities when they visit their offices i.e.spaces where they can meet with colleagues and connect to the WLAN or the internet from their portable devices.

Tags: wi-fi, wlan

[15 Jan 2007]

Leader: Consumer tech is changing the enterprise

Leader The proliferation of ever more powerful mobile phones, PDAs and ultra-portable PCs combined with higher bandwidth wireless connectivity is changing the way people interact and consume content, information and products.

Tags: consumerisation

[11 Jan 2007]

Leader: Set your workers free

Leader Or you get a good idea while sipping a coffee in the trendy 'break out' area, so you IM your boss on your portable, connected system. And though most of us have laptops which would allow us to roam the office and work anywhere we like, few...

Tags: ultra mobile pc, flexible working, wi-fi, voip

[05 Dec 2006]

Julie Meyer: Microsoft v Sony: A fight to the death?

Comment Where Sony does make an impact in the portable music space is in selling mobile phones under the Walkman brand - a massive help to Sony Ericsson. Sony Walkman portable MP3 players don't sell anything like Apple iPods and it is unclear whether the...

[14 Nov 2006]

Q&A: Inmarsat CEO on catching the data wave

Comment Nevertheless, the company announced its first foray into the hand-held portable satellite phone market after concluding a tie-up with terminal maker ACeS for a dual-mode GSM and satellite device. Despite much of the developing world and North...

Tags: satellite phone, aces, inmarsat, satellite broadband

[27 Oct 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Conference freebies

Comment How about digital cameras, portable hard drives, software applications, laptops and PCs? Written at a conference in London and dispatched a day later from a LAN cable I found lying unused on the floor in an office building I happened to be visiting...

Tags: freebies, cochrane blog, cochrane

[27 Oct 2006]

Leader: Longer battery life, please

Leader Which feature would you most like to see improved on your portable devices? silicon.com does not, as our regular readers know, review hardware such as laptops, mobile phones and PDAs (we leave that to our sister site CNET.co.uk).

Tags: laptop batteries, battery life, smart phones, pda

[10 Oct 2006]

Minority Report: Microsoft goes for Apple's jugular - the iPod

Comment Apple has roundly beaten off the challenge from other hardware and music service competitors and in recent years the iPod brand has become as synonymous with portable music as the Walkman was in the 80s.

Tags: zune, ipod, apple, microsoft

[04 Aug 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: More wireless equals more wires

Comment The reality is that to realise the dream of on-demand mobile and portable bandwidth we have to deploy thousands of wireless cells. Written in Ashville, North Carolina, and despatched via a free home wi-fi service at about 1,450 metres above sea level

Tags: wireless internet, wi-fi

[04 May 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: A crash-free life?

Comment So, soon I think I will be contemplating the removal of back-up OS and apps discs, portable hard drive, cables, connectors and so on from my travel bag. Written during a quiet and peaceful period in my office at home over Easter weekend.

Tags: cochrane blog, peter cochrane blog, peter cochrane's uncommon sense, crash

[20 Apr 2006]

Opinion: Harnessing consumer tech

Comment Fashionable trends on high streets are now almost exclusively technology-driven with mobile phones and iPods and other portable devices racking up consumer sales that almost defy logic, if we consider how quickly these areas are evolving.

Tags: consumer tech, google, intel, apple

[01 Mar 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.11.05

Round-Up The Round-Up presumes that if it transpires Petrick did murder his wife then he clearly worked out many of the disciplines required to kill a man with one's bare hands are portable to the field of killing a woman in the same way.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[18 Nov 2005]

Leader: Nokia - PC maker?

Leader The two devices in question are the N71 - generally acknowledged as a solid stab at blending a phone and an iPod-style device with browsing and video - and the N92, a phone-cum-portable TV with flip-up screen.

Tags: nokia

[03 Nov 2005]

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