A virtual private network or VPN is essential to remote working which once may have seemed a rare and expensive technology affordable but it is now part of everyday working life.
The majority of employers permit employees to have reasonable personal use of the Internet during working hours. Employers have sought to minimise the risks that this personal use might present by introducing Acceptable Use Policies and monitoring employee use.
Social and business networking sites are changing the way people talk online.
Sites like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo help friends stay in touch while LinkedIn and Plaxo mainly connect business users.
What can I get, when can I get it, what will it cost me, and is it worth it? These are questions CIOs are asking themselves following a blizzard of reports last month on the future national broadband network.
Virgin Media has got its own back on BT by successfully getting the Advertising Standards Authority to force BT to pull a broadband ad. Earlier this...