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The Home Office Deduction

whitepaper The savings from an office-in-home deduction can be significant, particularly in the case of a taxpayer who is subject to both income and self-employment taxes. If the client claims an office-in-home deduction in the year that he sells his house...

Tags: planning and services

[13 May 2008]

Psomas Achieves Global Work-Sharing and Accelerates the Mobile Worker

whitepaper 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 place.

Tags: lan - wan standards

[11 May 2008]

Doctors Boost Patient Load and Still Get Home for Dinner With Microsoft-Based System

whitepaper It employs a range of Microsoft technology, including the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange...

Tags: application servers

[11 May 2008]

BT adds smart phone to home broadband package

News Warren Buckley, director of portfolio convergence BT, said the move extends what the telco has been doing in the SME marketplace with its Office Anywhere product. BT says the package will enable web lovers to continue surfing and emailing outside...

Tags: broadband, smart phone, bt

[08 May 2008]

Best Practices for At-Home Agents

whitepaper From your customers' perspective, the agent must be so professional as to be indistinguishable from an in-office agent. What is your mental image of a work-at-home agent? Fortunately, home agents can be both professional and cost effective.

Tags: help desk

[05 May 2008]

Write Effective Business Letters

whitepaper Very few customers ever see the home office or a branch office; this is often true even of small businesses. Despite constantly improving forms of communication such as e-mail, the business letter still exerts enormous influence and deserves one's...

Tags: business management

[03 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...

Tags: iplayer, iphone, blackberry, vista

[02 May 2008]

Techies: 'We're worth more than last year'

News Office insights…   Flexibility the key for women in IT   Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend   Wanted: Women must save IT industry   Long-hours tech culture hits morale  ...

Tags: salary, jobs, skills

[02 May 2008]

600 HMRC workers caught snooping

News 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...

Tags: data loss, hmrc

[01 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...

Tags: climate change, technology, videoconferencing

[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...

Tags: distributed working, networks

[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.

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[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...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

Secret ID card review: Judge quashes its release

News H is for Home Office The matter was sent to the High Court after the Office of Government Commerce appealed a decision by the tribunal to uphold a decision by the Information Commissioner to require the reviews were disclosed to activist Mark...

Tags: gateway reviews, national identity register, id cards

[14 Apr 2008]

Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future

News Office insights…   Workaholic Brits can't find the off switch   Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT   Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts? You're not alone…   Health warning to...

Tags: it, laptop, internet, smart phones

[14 Apr 2008]

Securing Physical Access and Environmental Services for Datacenters

whitepaper It does not directly address physical security for distributed computing and networking facilities, office-based departmental servers and desktop systems, mobile or home working setups. Datacenters in many organizations house the "Crown jewels" in...

Tags: data center

[12 Apr 2008]

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill

News The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent hike in the cost of Home Office consultants - taking the bill up to £147m last year. Home Office spending on consultants shot up from £7.6m in 1997/98 to £147m in 2006/07, a period described...

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

[11 Apr 2008]

Sales staff: Worst IT offenders

News Workers outside the office are also the most likely to suffer from poor internet and application performance, the survey by research house e-Media found. Sales staff and home workers should be kept on a tight leash by IT managers to avoid damaging...

[11 Apr 2008]

Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News On Tuesday the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a statement on Phorm's activities, in which it said any allegations of Ripa non-compliance were a matter for the Home Office, rather than the ICO.

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

Hargis Industries Connects With GoToMyPC Pro

whitepaper GoToMyPC Pro enables Hargis employees to access their office PCs from their home desktops, laptops or any other Internet-connected computer, giving employees the power to retrieve their work when they need it.

Tags: vpns, united states, employees, gotomypc pro

[10 Apr 2008]

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