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Samsung launched the new Galaxy S4 with great fanfare, but the greatest thing about that device is buried rather deep in the user's guide. It is the world's first smartphone to ship with Passpoint enabled! Passpoint is the Wi-Fi Alliance's designation for devices and network equipment that support the Hotspot 2.0 standard. There is almost no amount of hype that goes far enough when talking about the impact that Hotspot 2.0 will have on the wireless world. Seriously. Hotspot 2.0 has been...
Enterprise social media is currently one of the most hyped technologies in business, which has led to a wide range of companies and organisations jumping on the bandwagon but also to a lot of denial of the disruption it brings...
Although flooding, fire and acts of terrorism are the disasters that grab the headlines when businesses are affected, recent stories of high-profile cyber-attacks have again highlighted the need for a disaster recovery plan. But why should your business pay a...
According to a recent report from the National Audit Office (NAO) there is severe danger of a ‘digital divide’ being created as more and more public services move online. There have been calls for the Government to take immediate action...
Recently, the spotlight was on a man who has achieved perhaps the single greatest talent development, performance management and succession planning transformation in UK corporate history. For those of us who believe that managing talent drives company performance and valuations,...
Cloud security remains a key concern for SMEs. This is understandable, as security breaches can have major negative repercussions for a business, including potential litigation and damage to reputation. For most SMEs however, the risks need not outweigh the benefits of cloud services. It’s also important to remember that while most SMEs are not specialists in data security, cloud vendors need to be: they have a vested interest in maintaining the security of customer data. Nevertheless, cloud customers remain ultimately responsible...
The growing popularity of consumer file-sharing software is clear. In March this year, a Strategy Analytics survey concluded that iCloud and Dropbox were the most widely used cloud platforms in the US. Worryingly, Dropbox also boasts approximately 2 million enterprise customers, with 95% of the Fortune 500 featuring on this list. In spite of this mass adoption, the security history for both of these solutions is not without blemishes and Dropbox in particular has had various issues in recent years. For instance,...
Remote working has always been a sticky subject among businesses as there are always questions raised over whether it can have a detrimental effect on colleague communication. Common themes often relate to feeling isolated, self-discipline, managing to separate your work...
As time goes on we are, without question, witnessing acceleration in the adoption of services being purchased as mainstream alternatives to on-premise, on a global scale. Whatever buyers are looking for, from CRM to business backup, a cloud option is...
Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn were talking about trends on one of my favorite shows, Project Runway. They agreed that there is a rule among high-brow fashionistas: set the trends, don’t wear them. Now I am by no means a fashion...
Are you making a ‘Where’s Wally’ puzzle of your data analysis? At first, this might not seem like an obvious question to ask, but think about it. The challenge and enjoyment offered by Martin Handford’s puzzles stem from scanning intricate images, being visually tripped up by puns and tricks, whilst painstakingly searching for ‘Wally’. Looking for data in a spreadsheet, a vast set of rows and numbers, is a lot like searching for ‘Wally’. What are the lessons we can...
At the recent Westminster Energy Environment & Transport Forum on smart metering, one comment really struck a chord with me: “The UK Government is approaching smart metering as a consumer engagement tool, most other countries are approaching it as an energy network management tool”. This one critical difference in the UK’s approach to smart metering could see the region become the benchmark for other successful deployments across the globe. There’s very little doubt that the UK’s Smart Meter Implementation Programme is a...
The Internet has forever changed the way people do business, and to deny its importance could mean a company going out of business. However, diving head first into this vast high-speed ocean of information can prove disastrous without the proper...
Anyone involved in the Data Centre business from design to operations continues to face significant challenges. The impact on the physical infrastructure of virtualisation and cloud computing has escalated the importance of specifying the most effective and cost efficient equipment...
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Carriers are excited by the prospect of Hotspot 2.0 (HS2.0) not least because it takes many of today’s manual Wi-Fi tasks, like authentication, and automates them; it lets users roam without hassl
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While I’ve touched on the subject of World of Warcraft phishers (and the Trojans they attempt to spread) a handful of times in the past several months, it’s worth mentioning the ongoing problems p
This top ten list of 2011 shows that software failures are costing companies and consumers large amounts of money. What is worse is that people are losing jobs and in some cases their liberty beca
Remote working has always been a sticky subject among businesses as there are always questions raised over whether it can have a detrimental effect on colleague communication. Common themes often
The safe and efficient exchanging of corporate files, is not a new problem. Not so long ago employees used USB keys to exchange information and the challenges for the IT department was locking USB
Businesses today increasingly see technologies like big data as being disruptive in the sense that they force organisations to look at new routes to market and new business models. Rather than hav
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