Workforce/Workplace Computing Archives

Collaboration: the old way. Why not?

Just lately I’ve been wondering a lot about stimulating innovation inside companies. It was sparked[...]

Infrastructure Optimisation Workshop

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Free to cheap sales opportunity?

If you sell weapons, pornography, drugs, products sourced from illegal logging, products derived from endangered[...]

Mind mapping comes in from the cold

This is going to be a tricky post because I have strong, and possibly irrational,[...]

Piggy-backing on social software

While our attention has been diverted by the razzle dazzle of the social software startups,[...]

Debating the future of small business IT

Microsoft has to steer a very careful course into the future. From its own point[...]

A netbook in your life?

When travelling, I rely on my BlackBerry for keeping in touch, or my laptop computer[...]

Collaboration – get it together – ’Enterprise 2.0’: Not as easy as it sounds

Getting your people collaborating more effectively is a laudable goal. If you listen to IT[...]

Content blunderbuss hits everything but the target

We humans have been sending signals out into space in the hope that, one day,[...]

Be the star of the show

Ever since Stewart Brand declared that “information wants to be free” in 1984, he has[...]

Collaboration: hidden or open?

Sometimes it’s good to see what’s going on inside other companies. It might make you[...]

Distributed software development is hard – But is there hope?

Poll results The Reg reader poll run earlier this week as part of our agile[...]

Macs not right for everyone

by Dale Vile The story goes that once you have experienced the Mac, there is[...]

Adobe Connect: digital meeting rooms

Had a demonstration session from Adobe the other day. It was making its Connect Pro[...]

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[...]

Do UC it?

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

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[...]

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[...]