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• BETT wrestles with BYOD in action

  One of the major challenges facing schools is to deal with the rising number of pupils that want to use hardware in a more flexible way  Continue Reading

• 4G to drive BYOD and desktop virtualisation growth

  Comms-care managing director Ben Davies looks at how 4G mobile services could affect take-up of other technologies among end users  Continue Reading

• Whitman's latest report makes grim reading

  Meg Whitman might have provided analysts and investors with a great deal of honesty about the time it's taking to turn the business around but as Billy MacInnes discovers the bad news has been coming for quite a while now out of HP  Continue Reading

• Lack of imagination STEMs any enthusiasm for science

  There's a massive shortage of UK children studying the core STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects; not great news for our industry, says Nick Booth  Continue Reading

• SCH sells distribution business – what took it so long?

  In the wake of SCH's decision to sell its distribution business, Billy MacInnes asks, why now?  Continue Reading

• Where does HP go from here?

  With more hard times still ahead for HP, Billy MacInnes wonders where the firm's turnaround will come from.  Continue Reading

• Microsoft's Metro mystery

  Microsoft may have to rename its Metro UI after a trademark dispute with a mystery European company. Billy MacInnes is on the trail.  Continue Reading

• Column: How hard can it be for Dell's premier partners to double their money?

  I have to admit to being fascinated by Dell's decision to make premier partners double the amount of business they do with the vendor if they wish to retain their status after 31 January 2013, writes Billy MacInnes.  Continue Reading

• Team Epson UK's London to Brighton charity bike ride

  In the first of an occasional series of guest blog posts in the run up to the London to Brighton bike ride we hear how training is going for the Epson team planning to ride to the South Coast.  Continue Reading

• Will you be sleeping under the stars in October?

  Raising money for charity is something that the channel does rather well so it's great to see that Byte Night has launched its 2012 campaign to spur thoughts about its annual sleep-out event.  Continue Reading

• Column: Has Whitman found the PSG answer?

  It's an intriguing story about plans by HP to combine its PC and imaging and print divisions, writes Billy MacInnes.  Continue Reading

• Column: Welcome to the IT shop of the future

  Worrying about the future of the channel is enough to drive anyone to drink. There's a pub full of serious drinkers that I drop into once a week. It's a place where nobody judges you because everyone has a sad story to tell.  Continue Reading

• Apple sparks the queues again

  The words 'iPad' and 'queues' seem to go hand in hand whenever there is a major product launch and sure enough it's happened again. Apple fans down under queued up to get their mitts on the latest iPad giving the vendor the sort of exposure that ...  Continue Reading

• Column: McNally showed the value of varied experience

  Very sad news about Joe McNally's death after a three year battle with cancer, writes Billy MacInnes. He was there in the Wild West days of the PC industry, starting Compaq UK in 1984 with $40,000.  Continue Reading

• Column: We should run the public sector like a Hadron Collider

  The Large Hadron Collider is a bit like our Connecting for Health programme. CERN fired billions of protons in a circuit in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the elusive Higgs Boson particle.  Continue Reading