Opinion

Opinion

• Apple has to prepare for a future without Steve Jobs

  Steve Jobs has got a lot of things right in his time at Apple (and a couple of things wrong) but it's measure of how successful he - and his company - has become, especially since his return in 1996 which brought Apple back from the dead, that the ...  Continue Reading

• Are you a director?

  There are instances of people who although not officially a director act is if they are a director. The law understands this and allows for them to be made liable for any malfeasance and a recent case - Re Mumtaz Properties Ltd; Wetton v Ahmed - ...  Continue Reading

• SMEs now have (slightly) easier access to new funds

  The Government has brought two deregulatory amendments to the EU Prospectus Directive into effect a year early which may help small businesses access equity finance more easily.  Continue Reading

• TouchPad hunters fell retail sites Lulzsec style

  Web performance firm Site Confidence has shared some insight into the impact of this week's HP TouchPad fire sale on the UK e-tail community.  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing's hidden costs part 6 - can we get some SLAs round here?

  There's an awful lot that can go wrong with service level agreements (SLAs) on cloud-based services says Craig Beddis, Regional SVP at UC4 Software. Services in the cloud are not available when there is an outage.  Continue Reading

• Post-PC or PC Plus? The result is still the same

  Are we in a post-PC age or a PC plus age? Lots of people have been saying the golden age of the PC is over, a perception reinforced by HP's abrupt decision to get out of the PC business as soon as it can.  Continue Reading

• Sick records skipped by employers, says DWP

  According to a recent survey from the Department of Work and Pensions employee sickness at work isn't being recorded correctly, if at all. In fact some 21 per cent of employers haven't got any form of process for recording sickness absence - more so...  Continue Reading

• Capital allowances loophole ended

  The Government has bought forward the closure of a loophole which previously had allowed businesses to accelerate capital allowances claims for plant and machinery and thereby obtain advantageous early tax relief.  Continue Reading

• An Enterprising plan for growth

  Back in March, the Government announced the creation of a number of enterprise zones where businesses would get extra help. Initially, the zones were decided as sites within Liverpool, London, Manchester, Derby, Nottingham, the Black Country, the ...  Continue Reading

• If HP wants to be the new IBM, does Google want to be the new Apple?

  So I go away for two weeks and all hell breaks loose. First, Google decides to buy Motorola's mobile phone operation, then HP says it's getting out of the PC business and discontinuing WebOS products.  Continue Reading

• Why Lady Gaga's driving habits should get you worried about security

  What with riots in London and Manchester, fallout from the News International phone hacking scandal and the ongoing worldwide economic crisis, not to mention Google's acquisition of Motorola and HP's sudden bloodbath, we'd almost forgotten it's ...  Continue Reading

• iPhone users are most dangerous behind the wheel says survey

  In a survey conducted last week, this column uncovered the truth about iPhone users; they make the worst drivers. The survey was conducted on two separate occasions on the same stretch of road.  Continue Reading

• Leo higlights the split driving the industry

  The announcements that came out of Hewlett-Packard last night have rocked the IT world but perhaps shouldn't be that surprising given that the man running the vendor has a strong background in software.  Continue Reading

• Support for riot hit people and businesses

  Those businesses and communities affected by the riots can take advantage of measures that the Government has recently announced. Included in the help package is £10 million to help councils with the immediate costs of making their areas safe, ...  Continue Reading

• Dell chief counts Apple out of mobile OS race. Really, Michael?

  Has Michael Dell seriously ruled Apple out of the running? Clearly nobody has told Apple, but if comments made by the eponymous Dell boss on the firm's second quarter conference call are to be taken at face value, then it's time for Steve Jobs to ...  Continue Reading