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Managing Information Technology for a UK based Small/Medium Enterprise - With a bit of real life thrown in for good measure.

Entries from June 2008

Computer Room Regeneration – Considering the floor

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Technology moves apace however elements of a computer room, especially small ones, can often be overlooked or given a low priority in favour of processing, network, communications and storing units. These elements can often include elements within the physical room itself such as dealing with cables, raised flooring, static-free floor tiles, dust, cooling, and environmental [...]

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Tags: Technology Management

The adoption of mobile devices for e-mail

June 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I have a sense that mobile e-mail devices are set to dramatically increase the amount of email flowing around business, especially internal e-mail as users find the convenience of devices and the flexibility of short messages preferable to voice calls or SMS. Computing magazine recently reported (19 June 2008) that mobile devices were responsible for [...]

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Tags: Technology Management

XP Tip: Improve performance by defragging

June 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Hard Disk Fragmentation can often sound like a scary phrase and yet it can hamper the overall performance of your computer and, once identified, can be improved relatively easily.
First, you need to check if there is a problem. A quick way of doing this in Windows XP is to click Start then My Computer which [...]

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Tags: Technical Tips

Technology Blog of the Week: Eileen Brown’s Weblog

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Technology Blog of the Week this week goes to Eileen Brown’s Weblog where Eileen talks about and comments upon an array of technology related subjects and often gives a useful insight into what goes on behind the big doors over at Microsoft UK (Eileen manages the IT Evangelists team). I often talk about Messaging and [...]

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Buzzword Bingo 2008

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments

I have updated Buzzword Bingo to add some new terms for 2008 - I cannot believe it has been a year since it was last posted (Buzzword Bingo).  You can download it here: http://www.jasonslater.co.uk/resources/buzzword2008.pdf

This time last year my favourite two buzz words were Virtualization and Unified. This year they are Web 2.0, Zero Carbon and [...]

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Tags: Humour