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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]
An Architectural Model to Provide QoS in a Home Network and Its Evaluation in a Real Testbed
White Paper Home networks are an evolution of office local area networks, answering the need for residential distribution of broadband services. The design of a home network must strive to keep low costs, easy installation and maintenance while at the same... [18 Jul 2008]
Security heading for the cloud
News Gartner said the increase in use of cloud-based office software, such as Google Apps or salesforce.com, means online security services will be necessary to protect mobile IT users accessing business data and services outside the corporate network. [17 Jul 2008]
Defra to ditch desktops and PDAs
News I will feel this very much myself because at the moment I have a fixed PC in the office, a laptop I use at home and a BlackBerry, and in the new world I will be able to have one item, which is a laptop which I shall carry. [16 Jul 2008]
Privacy chief fights UK-wide database
News A database of all calls, emails and internet traffic, to be stored by the Home Office for at least 12 months, is thought to be included under proposals for "modifying procedures for acquiring communications data" in the draft Communications Data... [15 Jul 2008]
SAP Replaces Previous VPN Technology With F5's FirePass SSL VPN Solution, Ensuring Secure Remote Access for Nearly 7,000 Users Daily
White Paper SAP wanted to provide remote access to corporate applications to all employees, whether they were working out of the home office, a sales person at a client site performing a demo, or a consultant at a customer site who needed to connect back to... [11 Jul 2008]
LogMeIn and IPSec VPNs: A Comparison
White Paper Its primary role is to allow end users to access their home or office computers from a remote location over the internet in a simple and secure manner. This paper provides a comparison of how LogMeIn and IPSec VPNs provide corporate LAN access to... [10 Jul 2008]
ID cards face student scorn
News H is for Home Office Feedback from the site will be put towards tailoring the biometric card to suit young people's needs when they are offered the cards from 2010. Site forums so far have raised fears about data security and governments abusing... [09 Jul 2008]
Photos: 60 years of NHS tech
Photo What is now BT was part of the General Post Office when the NHS started in 1948. This is one of the trolley phones introduced in 1954 which allowed patients to call home from their bed. This shows a doctor in the 1980s attending to a patient and... [09 Jul 2008]
Are banks going soft on e-crime?
News Home Office suggestions that the National Fraud Reporting Centre will have a national e-crime investigation arm were welcomed by the committee but it criticised the time it was taking to establish a countywide cyber crime unit. [08 Jul 2008]
Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors
Photo Desk space could be booked for two hours at a time - and there was also a boardroom and 'creative zone' up for grabs where office workers could indulge in a little 'blue sky thinking'.silicon.com reporters Natasha Lomas and Tim Ferguson went down... [08 Jul 2008]
Woodmen of the World Saves Time and Automates Business Processes with CONTROL-D and CONTROL-M by BMC Software
White Paper Housed within Woodmen headquarters is the company's data center, providing information services to the Home Office and to 40 state offices around the country. The data center must access information from the mainframe, and automate report... [03 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News H is for Home Office In particular, any further investment in EPA2 would have had a limited period in which to deliver the expected benefits, given the current retendering of the contract to support operational systems from October 2009. [02 Jul 2008]
Museum of computing looks for new home
News Staff at The Museum of Computing in Swindon are hopeful of finding a new site after being given office space to store its thousands of exhibits for 18 months. Webb told silicon.com he was reasonably optimistic that the museum would find a new home... [02 Jul 2008]
NZAA Turns to Avaya to Improve Call Centre Efficiency and Regional Office Productivity
White Paper Additionally, the NZAA uses the Avaya Voice Portal to deploy a new application enabling members to book roadside jobs from home. The New Zealand Automobile Association (NZAA) needed to implement a new communications platform after Avaya ended... [02 Jul 2008]
