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Does your business really need an office?
Comment For many, the home office and kitchen table are one and the same. Fit for work and ergonomically sound? I'm only talking about knowledge workers here: those whose work could be done with... [17 Nov 2009]
Risk at Home: Privacy and Security Risks in Telecommuting
White Paper But for the chief technology officer or chief risk officer of today's organization, perhaps no issue presents more complexity - or more headaches - than the necessity to protect corporate and personal information in an environment where... [13 Nov 2009]
10 Steps to Better Secure Your Mac Laptop From Physical Data Theft
White Paper Laptops are more prone to physical attack than desktop systems by their nature - being portable they are often taken out of the office to work from home, on the train or even in the... [12 Nov 2009]
Photos: The happy robot sat-nav
Photo Aida will analyse driving behaviour and pick out regular routes: for example, it will know that a driver always stops to get some shopping on the way home from work or tops up the car... [11 Nov 2009]
Photos: Firefox through the ages
Photo While the official Mozilla effort still was working on the unified browser and email software package dating back to the Netscape era, Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross began work on a simplified browser initially called Phoenix. [10 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine? Part II
Comment Netbooks are everywhere - but can they replace your work laptop? After working from home for an hour or so, I shut down the netbook and headed into the office for 9am. Last week I set... [09 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News The work of the Bletchley Park codebreakers is credited with shortening the Second World War by two years. I had no idea how important it would become as a machine and looking back I realise I was very lucky to have the... [05 Nov 2009]
Magic Mouse - Apple's best ever?
Comment It's certainly the best mouse Apple has made in a long time (possibly ever) although as already stated the rest of the field isn't exactly much to write home about. In addition the two-finger swipes work... [03 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo The Wave platform offers users a chance to chat and work together in real-time within a window in a web browser that Google calls a 'wave'. In the example a fictional bank and insurance company have merged and need to... [02 Nov 2009]
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. I'm giving my current hardware setup a holiday and instead will see if I can use a netbook as my main... [02 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Not perfect - but ready for prime time
Comment Microsoft provides a decent approach to compatibility in Windows 7: not only do you get all the compatibility modes (which may or may not work) but you also get the opportunity to embed a full copy of XP into the Windows... [28 Oct 2009]
Mind the details with Windows 7
Comment The systems in question have run the gamut from netbooks and an Atom-based net-top, through to several variations of corporate and consumer notebooks, a couple of branded consumer and corporate desktops, and up to a... [23 Oct 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Unlike workers in the US, employees in the UK do have an expectation of privacy in the workplace, and if you fail to follow best practice you could find your organisation on the wrong side of the law: under Article 8 of the Convention on... [22 Oct 2009]
Photos: Microsoft sweetens Aero for Windows 7
Photo Windows 7 Home Premium and above support switching themes and skins on the fly. Do the same with a second window on the right edge of the monitor and you'll be able to easily work in two windows at once. [21 Oct 2009]
It's a dog's life for police BlackBerrys
News The government has committed £80m to ramp up police smartphone use by funding the deployment of 30,000 mobile data devices by 2010 - with the Home Office's plan being to increase police visibility in communities by... [20 Oct 2009]
