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RSS work from homeMicrosoft: Don't knock Vista 'til you've tried it
News Of course the focus groups didn't have to install Vista or hook it up to their existing home network, however the emotional appeal of the "every man" trying Vista and liking it clearly packs an emotional punch. [24 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment Written while flying from London to Rome and dispatched on arrival at my hotel via a 3G HSDPA data service. Some 20 years ago I was running a series of experiments involving multiple home and office fixed and mobile devices. [22 Jul 2008]
Working Green: Bottom-line Benefits of Telecommuting and Secure Remote Access
White Paper Companies are exploring the benefits of telecommuting, allowing their employees to work remotely from home. This white paper from The FactPoint Group explores the environmental and business benefits of secure remote access, advantages to companies... [18 Jul 2008]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Often they are more advanced in their thinking and actions outside work. Leadership This means commitment from the top of an organisation, which is the best way to ensure that environmental commitment cascades down through individual leaders to the... [17 Jul 2008]
The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News Enough information to fill multiple CDs every second is flowing across the world on a network one thousand times faster than home broadband. The Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG), a super high bandwidth network, will channel about 15... [15 Jul 2008]
UK failing to respect computing heritage
News And then you really appreciate what home and work activities have changed immensely over the last 40 years. Some invoked the names of pioneers from the past and the present to illustrate how much the UK has contributed to modern computing. [15 Jul 2008]
Photos: 60 years of NHS tech
Photo This is one of the trolley phones introduced in 1954 which allowed patients to call home from their bed. In the 1970s and 1980s BT did a lot of work around paging technology allowing doctors and nurses to be contacted easily when they were needed. [09 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]
ID cards: 'Political' move, claim airport workers
News ID cards for 'airside' workers - those who work beyond airport security checks - will become compulsory in 2009. Security from A to Z Wiltshire's comments follow a Bata letter of protest sent to the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, this week, signed... [07 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: The naked truth about DSL
Comment But if naked DSL were widely adopted in the UK, the incumbent service providers would lose some revenue, both from those consumers who decide they can do without a landline at all and from those who would migrate to VoIP services over their... [03 Jul 2008]
Skype touts biz credentials
News Jones said Skype can act as a "virtual water cooler" for those who work at home. Skype is touting its voice over IP (VoIP) technology for small businesses keen to work globally and keep costs down. According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its... [02 Jul 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News It's also happening as people's work and attentions are shifting from software that runs on their own PCs, and that they can control whether to install or upgrade, to software that runs online, such as through the Facebook or Google application... [30 Jun 2008]
Femtocells to speed arrival of next-gen mobile networks?
News Industry association body the Femto Forum and operator community group the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance have announced they will work together to ensure the DSL-piggybacking tech works with next generation mobile networks from... [30 Jun 2008]
Effective Web policies: ensuring staff productivity and legal compliance
White Paper Employees increasingly expect to use the Internet at work for their own personal use in return for longer hours, working from home and interrupting vacations. This has a number of security, productivity, bandwidth and legal ramifications that... [30 Jun 2008]
Hidden Dangers in the Mobile Worker Jungle: Provide Fast and Secure Access for Remote Workers
White Paper It is a jungle out there, particularly now that millions of workers work remotely, placing new demands on their IT infrastructure and often unknowingly threatening their company's security every day. From mobile workers' perspectives, up-to-the... [30 Jun 2008]
