Opinion

Desktop PCs

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
Column: The positive experience driving BYOD

BYOD is a very hot topic right now. Why shouldn't it be? After all, what company is going to turn down the chance of encouraging and supporting employees to buy their own devices for work rather than having to buy them itself? Continue Reading