working from home
Does your business really need an office?
Comment Working from home or from a coffee shop then become available options, chosen according to the task in hand. In this age of mobile working, should... [17 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The Home Office announced today that people living or working in Manchester will now be able to enrol their details for an ID card from 30 November, with the first cards issued around 10... [16 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]
Photos: Emerging tech from location-based services to social networking
Photo Rather than having to look at X-rays or other medical images on small mobile devices that doctors carry around with them now, AT&T is working on a device using a laser projector to blow up the images. [09 Nov 2009]
Can I use a netbook as my everyday work machine? Part II
Comment Working from home After working from home for an hour or so, I shut down the netbook and headed into the office for 9am. When... [09 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News Up to two-thirds of the staff at Bletchley Park were young women and Osborne was one of up to 400 other Wrens at Woburn Abbey, home to the Duke of Bedford, but her accommodation was less grand than might be expected. [05 Nov 2009]
Photos: Google Waves hello to a new way of doing business
Photo Each person who is working within a wave will see the same image, so as each person adds new parts to the business model the image is updated in real-time for everyone on the wave. This allows staff from... [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. As a sub editor for silicon.com, my working day is broken down by a... [02 Nov 2009]
Where to make the biggest bucks working in IT
News The second highest rewards go to those working in the IT, web and telecom sectors, where IT workers take home £42,360 each year. Techies in these industries collect about £8,000 more than the £35,452... [01 Oct 2009]
The Power of Connections
White Paper With avirtual private network (VPN), employees can securely connect to your network, even when working from home or on the road. Keeping your employees connected to people and... [28 Sep 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News But it's coming, Rattner said, illustrating his point with help from 3eality Digital, which showed a professional camera that can shoot live 3D video, and Silicon Valley start-up HDI, which is working on... [28 Sep 2009]
The PC is past it: Computing power is everywhere, says Intel
News In his keynote speech to developers on Tuesday, Otellini drove home the message that, through standards technology, Intel wants developers to be able to just build once, not many times for multiple platforms. [24 Sep 2009]
Want to boost your pay packet? Get yourself a bigger employer
News While working for a SME might have a lot of rewards - more flexible working hours, perhaps, or even a greater degree of job security - it will not bring you the biggest financial reward, new research has... [11 Sep 2009]
Want to run iPhone apps on Windows phones?
News One use case that we hear about is [separation] of home and work," says Krishnamurti. While the demonstration used a prototype handset from Texas Instruments, Krishnamurti says VMware is... [03 Sep 2009]
Kids today: Don't fear the Millennials at work
Comment After working in schools and speaking to real live young people, I couldn't find any of these workplace time bombs. After working in schools, Richard Leyland tells a different story. They may be little... [24 Aug 2009]