Opinion

Opinion

• Are you reading this on your phone? In a meeting? You're in good company

  Here's something that shouldn't really be all that surprising: technology is making people ruder in social situations. Many of them just can't tear themselves away from their phones.  Continue Reading

• The Power of Nice - Review

  If you're going to be a service provider, you might as well be nice. Start with the welcome you offer people when they arrive at your company.  Continue Reading

• Fraud consultation could get tax dodgers off the hook

  According to the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the government is really keen to get tax payers, or rather those who aren't paying what they should be, 'working' more for HMRC.  Continue Reading

• Cloud computing's hidden costs, part one

  What are the hidden costs of cloud computing? Let's count them. There are some awful fates awaiting you in the cloud. Take for example, the fate that befell New York publisher Curbed Network, which got kicked to the kerb when its data was suddenly ...  Continue Reading

• Which is the anonymous nation state hacker conducting cyber war against other government sites?

  McAfee has released the results of a five year study, code named Operation Shady RAT, which shows how an unnamed rogue hacker has attacked a variety of global players.  Continue Reading

• European court hikes costs of cycle to work schemes

  No sooner has the Office of Tax Simplification told the Government that the Cycle to Work Scheme should stay than the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has handed down a ruling that makes it 20% more expensive for employees.  Continue Reading

• Can we stop all this horrid hacking with an IronKey?

  I've never been to Thailand, so I found myself on Amazon recently, browsing travel books like Thailand Diaries. I was about to buy it when suddenly, a cold hand clutched at my heart. I became paralysed with fear. What if they take the order and ...  Continue Reading

• Businesses must stick to ASA's rules

  Making claims about a product or service is nothing new, nor is the making of misleading claims. And as if to prove the point, it's worth highlighting that TalkTalk has had a complaint upheld against it by the Advertising Standards Authority over an...  Continue Reading

• Suffolk's appointment at Huawei sends the right message

  The appointment of former government CIO John Suffolk to manage the cyber security strategy at Chinese comms and networking vendor Huawei is to be applauded as another step in the right direction for the company.  Continue Reading

• The evolving lifecycle of the vendor distie relationship

  Murray Pearce, sales director at Vigil Software, looks at the changing role of distribution in the overall channel relationship.  Continue Reading

• Gigaset - a hands free phone without the earache.

  I don't know about you, but I hate wearing headsets and those ghastly ear things. There must be a nice way to be handsfree. Gigaset has just released the latest handsfree home phone, the Gigaset L410.  Continue Reading

• Elegant answers - how to funk up your business phone

  There's one marketing agency I know of whose offices are like a library, normally. But, when a client visits, the old codger running the agency puts gangster rap on the sound system, in an attempt to convince the client they are young and funky. It ...  Continue Reading

• Late payment help? Yes? No? Maybe?

  The Government has announced some new measures that may or may not help businesses in their never-ending quest to beat the problem of being paid late. The measures only seem to be aimed at Government suppliers.  Continue Reading

• Jargon buster is a good idea but it misses the real target

  Earlier in the week, IT support company Barton Technology released a "jargon buster" designed to help small businesses and SMEs decipher some of the jargon in hardware, networking, software and licensing, backup, server applications and security ...  Continue Reading

• 'Hello! I'm searching my computer... on the train!'

  Simplexo claims to have invented a tool that allows you to use your mobile to search your desktop computer. So if you're crawling up the west coast main line and suddenly remember a document you need, you can scan the office computer for it with ...  Continue Reading