Workforce/Workplace Computing Archives

Moving to a new app? Mind the data trap

If you’re anything like me, you’re always on the lookout for software that will improve[...]

Videoconferencing comes of age for CIOs

By Josie Sephton The announcement a few weeks back on Cisco acquiring Tandberg seems to[...]

Social wariness is wise for business

A colleague pulled me up with a start the other day when I was talking[...]

Does business social networking really need IT?

Are you wrestling with the idea of bringing social networking (choose your own preferred term)[...]

Windows 7 kills two thirds of active Vista initiatives

We recently ran a survey asking respondents (over 1,100 IT pros) about their thoughts and[...]

Desktop Modernisation

by Dale Vile and Tony Lock The personal computer is one of the few parts[...]

Are you mulling new ways of refreshing desktop and laptop estates?

In a recent poll we asked if people were rethinking their desktop strategies, and what[...]

What are you doing about refreshing the PC estate?

We know from respondents that the age of desktop estates vary greatly, not just between[...]

Reg readers take mobile makers to task

When Freeform Dynamics asked you for your opinion of your mobile phone, you didn’t hesitate[...]

Remote IT support ’is harder’

Perish the thought that we at Freeform Towers should try to over-simplify things, but from[...]

Microsoft is learning to share – but not soon enough?

Jive, an enterprise-focused social software company, has a catchy tagline: it says it’s going to[...]

Securing the remote estate – Lock ‘em down or set ‘em free?

One of the challenges of managing a remote desktop estate is security. It’s not a[...]

What do Scotland, Australia and Africa have in common?

Unified Communications (UC) is a pretty hot topic with analysts and vendors alike. Yet despite[...]

When PCs went mobile – Tears of joy or sorrow?

Do you remember the first time you saw a laptop? Shiny bright LED screen, pixels[...]

Today’s users don’t expect things to fail

A recent mini-poll reveals, as perhaps expected, that the primary source of information used to[...]

Everything as a service

The influence of IT in everyday business operations continues to increase. Until a few years[...]

How much does desktop PC support actually cost?

Here’s a direct question on this (hopefully sunny) day. Do you, or does anyone in[...]

The great productivity myth: Are we slaves to the machine?

We know from numerous research studies that, while there are indeed ‘bad guys out there’,[...]

Desktop minipoll results – user ignorance is bliss?

The results are in from our latest mini-poll, and they are pretty conclusive – even[...]

Does the Help Desk have a future?

With the rapid development of service desk ‘self help’ tools and the even faster adoption[...]

How’s your desktop support service desk looking?

As everyone working in IT support knows, the job would be so easy if it[...]

Deploying VoIP in real life

Mainstream-ready VoIP offerings are becoming more widely available, with greater flexibility around options and more[...]

Desktop Management – Where are you now?

Since desktop PCs first entered the world of business, IT managers and help desk staff[...]

Collaboration and control

Once upon a time, the boundaries of IT management were fairly straightforward. All your customers[...]