Recent reports suggest that as a nation, Brits are overworked, regularly spending well over 40 hours a week in the office. Dr Cary Cooper, a professor at Lancaster University believes that the explosion of technology, which has lead to a ‘long working hours epidemic’ is at the heart of the problem. He believes that technology stresses instead of supports, as...
Mobile broadband suddenly seems to be the technology of the moment. Judging by the sudden rash of advertising plastered across busses and evening papers, it is as if a veil has been lifted and mobile operators can suddenly see the huge demand for a truly mobile access technology. Ericsson rates its ‘dongles’ so highly, that it has predicted the technology...
It is now pretty well known that when it comes to broadband speeds, what you buy is not necessarily what you get. This debate will no doubt rumble on until some sort of regulation is passed to make sure consumers know exactly what they are paying for, or what they are paying for and not getting. Still it is not...
It is nice to remember those heady, early days of the Internet, when corporations, politicians and users alike waxed lyrical about the freest flow of information humankind has ever seen. Fast forward 17 years and we are faced with yet another call for ISPs to do more to stop file-sharing – this time with a somewhat reactionary proposal that illegal...
The technology press does seem to like a good scare story, and VoIP has seen more than its fair share. This month it was the turn of BT to get in the firing line as an ‘ethical hacking’ group claimed to have found a serious flaw in its Home Hub product which meant it could be used as a platform...
You’re probably familiar with WiFi, the wireless networking standard, from the numerous ‘hot spots’ springing up in towns and cities. Today though, the technology is expanding out of the coffee shops and airport lounges and into the office environment. The reasons for this are, as with most things in life, many and varied… Flexibility and cost are a major factor....
The Broadband Stakeholder Group’s warning in April 2007, that the government had just two years to encourage private-sector investment to prevent the UK from falling behind the likes of the US, Germany and Japan, was a direct challenge to Ofcom. So when Ofcom published its September consultation on the matter, it made for interesting reading. Not only did it go...
One of my colleagues overheard two guys in the pub last week, one asking the other when he thought his work would move over to VoIP in order to take advantage of the cheap phone calls. Anecdotal maybe, but still a clear indication that the average worker seems to have bought in whole-heartedly to the mantra that VoIP (running voice...
… following a recent report from the Federation of Small Business that claims that just 18 per cent of SMEs are selling on-line, with less than one per cent of those generating all their sales through the internet. SME's main reason for such online reticence is their fear about online fraud and security … Research asks some pretty dumb questions....
So it’s official, following years of speculation about how addictive the BlackBerry really is, Gartner has released a research report predicting a meteoric rise in the use of mobile email. It forecasts that the popularity of text messaging is on the wane, as by 2010 over a fifth of email users will be sending messages wirelessly. Also that within three...
