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September 14, 2011
Over time the average enterprise is likely to accumulate numerous data sources in a variety of formats—from simple text files and spreadsheets all the way...
May 05, 2011
Microsoft’s Windows may be the most used operating system, but there are others, most notably open source Linux. A popular alternative on servers, Linux is...
April 28, 2011
Anyone tasked with managing the PCs in their organisation will know just how time consuming and challenging an undertaking it can be. Even with only...
April 20, 2011
The browser wars continue to rage with Microsoft, Mozilla, Google and others all keen to have us use their products, and theirs alone, to access...
April 15, 2011
Network file servers are wonderful things, they connect people and their computers together, let them share files and printers, backup their data and run shared...
April 05, 2011
With the widespread availability of broadband, Wi-Fi and 3G, online meetings and Web conferencing have become commonplace, doing away with the need for costly travel,...
March 29, 2011
There was a time when the terms ‘Web browser’ and ‘Internet Explorer’ were more or less synonymous, but times have changed. Over the past few...
March 22, 2011
Network servers have their place but can be expensive to deploy and hard to manage. Moreover, in the small business servers tend to be vastly...
March 15, 2011
The term server tends to conjure up images of large and imposing rack-mount boxes costing thousands of pounds, stuffed full of processors, memory and hard...
March 08, 2011
There are lots of remote control programs around, many available for free including Remote Desktop Connection in Windows. Putting these tools to work, however, isn’t...
March 01, 2011
Windows isn’t the only fish in the operating system sea, with plenty of companies willing to consider open source Linux alternatives, if not on the...
February 22, 2011
A freely accessible ISO standard since 2008, the Portable Document Format (PDF) will forever be associated with original developer Adobe. Moreover, despite a plethora of...
February 18, 2011
Despite its immense popularity, Microsoft’s Windows Server isn’t the easiest of platforms to manage, especially when applications such as Exchange Server and SharePoint are added...
October 25, 2010
Gone are the days when special utilities were needed to publish PDF documents, with tools to do so increasingly available in Office and other mainstream...
October 13, 2010
In order to trade online you’ll need a Web site capable of displaying your wares, together with a shopping cart, the means of downloading and...