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Home-grown Enterprise 2.0 at GE

The recent Office 2.0 conference appeared a well-organised and serene affair, totally hiding the furious[...]

Adobe Genesis addresses real needs

Breaking ranks with the ’browser-only’ brigade, Adobe is planning to introduces a desktop client to[...]

Encrypt your memory sticks (HMG)

Yet another security breach fo the Home Secretary to wrestle with. This time PA Consulting[...]

Time To Take the Tablet – Vista’s unsung platform

Several years ago Microsoft launched its Tablet software with much fanfare. Today the platform has[...]

iPhone: First impressions of a Blackberry user

For a while now, I have maintained two mobile phones – one for business use[...]

Missing Metadata

by Tony Lock When it comes to information, most organisations’ efforts have focussed on processing[...]

Do UC it?

There is a lot of focus currently on unified communications (UC) – the integration of[...]

Email resiliency and the SMB

by Martin Atherton For most businesses, IT is linked to multiple facets of activity: product[...]

Is your data safe on US visits?

Over the weekend, I was invited to attend the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco[...]

Webslides are go

I’ve noticed a couple of new(ish) web services recently. Each allows you to create a[...]

Service Orientation in Business

by Jon Collins KEY FINDINGS While change is a certainty in business, some still struggle[...]

Secure USB

by Jon Collins When the USB standard was first launched, few would have imagined the[...]

Desktop Virtualisation – Where to Begin

There is increasing discussion in many organisations, across a broad range of geographies, industry verticals[...]

R. Todd Stephens on Enterprise 2.0

Sometimes it’s easy to be overwhelmed by new ways of working. Enterprise 2.0, for example,[...]

To change your world, put yourself in the boss’s shoes

Last month the National Computing Centre held its annual conference. Opening the event, which was[...]

Desktop power management

It’s encouraging that many of the conversations we are having at the moment in relation[...]

Sustainability winner: SOAK

I’m not totally sold on the Microsoft environmental story (hint: lifecycle costs of replacing kit)[...]

Is There a Business Case To Be Made In Favour of Virtualising the Desktop?

If you are looking at desktop/notebook replacement or optimisation now, what are the options and[...]

Home working: does it make sense?

When we did our environmental IT research earlier this year, we looked at how IT[...]

Justifying a large scale Vista migration

Over the past couple of months, I have had in-depth conversations with five CIOs that[...]

LinkedIn: an espionage tool?

I have no idea why Aladdin Knowledge Systems decided to attack LinkedIn, the business networking[...]

Who controls your personal information?

Doc Searls is a long time blogger, a deep thinker, a co-author of the seminal[...]

Behind the scenes at the National Gallery provides plenty of food for thought.

I recently had the pleasure of attending an event which took a group of analysts[...]

Cloud Computing: Silver lining…

by David Tebbutt Since so many people are talking about cloud computing, it really wouldn’t[...]