Workforce/Workplace Computing Archives

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[...]

Desktops still have a purpose.

by Jon Collins Desktop computing is where the rubber hits the road, as far as[...]

Business Intelligence and the bolting horse

There appears to be a revival of interest in Business Intelligence (BI) among IT vendors[...]

A quick route to unified communications?

A cheeky little outsider from Spain has been quietly snitching large unified communication (UC) deals[...]

Cloud Computing and Web 2.0

Don’t you just hate it when another woolly ambiguous term is forced upon us? When[...]

Can computers really extract knowlege?

Knowledge management is theoretically impossible. Real knowledge sits between your ears, unseen until it is[...]

Let go and relax. Information management is about trusting your tools

I’m not a major player when it comes to gadgets and tools, I often download[...]

Racetrack memory to save us from ourselves

Today’s issue of Science carries a story about a new invention from IBM called Magnetic[...]

The ISO is right to back OOXML

by Dale Vile News this week that , Microsoft’s OOXML document format has been adopted[...]

Microsoft Bloat, Green and the Vista opportunity

Microsoft’s always going to have a hard time presenting a convincing green story for desktop[...]

Linux on the desktop: cheap trick or pragmatist’s dream?

Welcome to our third and final poll on desktop operating systems. First, we looked at[...]

Unified Comms – What is it, why does it matter and how do you get it?

Audience – IT & Business professionals Occasion – Computing Magazine Web Seminar – February 2008[...]

Debating the future of small business IT

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

Mobility and Connectivity

by Jon Collins and Dale Vile During the middle part of 2007, Freeform Dynamics ran[...]

Business Performance Management

by Dale Vile and Martin Atherton As markets become more complex and dynamic, is the[...]