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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 mixture of home and office working. [02 Nov 2009]
College Replaces Conferencing Service With Unified Communications Solution
White Paper With help from Dell, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Georgian College deployed Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 with voice over IP, instant messaging, presence awareness, and conferencing. [02 Oct 2009]
More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
News The Cabinet Office said these figures only represent a snapshot and not the full extent of the savings derived from greening its IT but could not provide details of any further savings. According to an announcement by... [16 Sep 2009]
Wake up, brush teeth, log on: Most techies check email before 9am
News The traditional nine-to-five office day is ebbing away, with techies seemingly unable to resist checking their email before breakfast. The majority of IT workers are now checking their email, either on a PC or a mobile... [24 Aug 2009]
Familiar Tools Help Sales Team Drive Adoption, Centralize Critical Sales Information
White Paper By enabling sales staff to record customer and associated sales information through the familiar Microsoft Office Outlook interface, Alberici has driven adoption and more effectively captured and centralized key sales... [25 Jul 2009]
Hardware-hungry techies pack more than five PCs each
News At the low end, 11 per cent owned up to having a pair of PCs, five per cent said they own just one and a hardware-shunning one per cent said they have no PCs at all (which presumably means they responded to the poll... [21 Jul 2009]
Ministry of Justice slashes IT bill by £110m
News The report adds that in 2009/10 the ministry will "increase [its] efficiency further" by "establishing a single IT function for MoJ, bringing together services which have previously been provided by Noms (National Offender Management... [16 Jun 2009]
£7.2bn savings: IT and back office feel the Treasury knife
News Shared services and outsourcing will be at the heart of a drive to cut £7.2bn from UK government's annual IT and back office costs. Part of the review tackling IT, authored by ex-Logica CEO Martin Read, said that the key... [22 Apr 2009]
Five ways Gen Y will change the way you work
News Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who... [26 Mar 2009]
'Fundamentally flawed, almost certainly illegal': Gov't databases
News The Information Commissioner's Office has commented that the plans are 'a step too far for the British way of life'," said the report. The Home Office, which oversees these three databases, denied that... [23 Mar 2009]
Design Firm Raises Per-Employee Revenue by 25 Percent with Collaboration Solution
White Paper The firm deployed ProjectWise collaboration software for engineering content management, content publishing, and design review, and integrated with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007, to manage business... [18 Mar 2009]
Inbox: Thin clients dealt Defra death blow?
Comment With so many homeworkers it may have cost Defra lots more in electricity bills to provide hosted virtual machines for all, maybe it's better to let the homeworkers pay for the electricity and office space etc? [05 Mar 2009]
Thin clients find slim pickings at Defra
News Replacing power hungry desktop PCs with thin clients was flagged as one way of reducing energy consumption in the government's Greening ICT Strategy, the recently published Cabinet Office guidelines on how Whitehall can... [03 Mar 2009]
Bean counters get connected in crunch fight
News The survey of 566 senior accountants in practice in England and Wales found more than 90 per cent of them spent time working out of the office, with 35 per cent spending at least 11 hours per week... [02 Mar 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital Britain? Not quite
Comment By contrast, a day later the South Korean government made a similar pledge for a 1000Mbps net connection to every home and office by 2013. Some of these countries already have a 100Mbps basic service for home and... [19 Feb 2009]