I recently talked about Anti-Theft for Mobile devices from F-Secure (see A Closer Look At F-Secure Anti-Theft For Mobile and F-Secure Delivers Anti-Theft Solution For Mobile Devices) which is a useful utility for ensuring the information contained on your mobile device can be made safe – in case it is lost or misplaced. F-Secure have [read more...]

Some interesting statistics came along today from Famecount.com, a service utilising data from Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to track well known brand coverage, which identified the top ten consumer brands across social media networks. Names you might expect appears in the rankings including Starbucks which appeared at the top spot, closely followed by Coca-Cola, Whole [read more...]

I have been looking forward to the arrival of a couple of new VXL thin client terminals. VXL were the very first thin client terminals we implemented back in the late 1990’s with their, then, distinctive pizza box shape. They served the job well and ran happily with Citrix Winframe – technology has evolved quite [read more...]

A new evolution of the popular BBC iPlayer has entered public beta testing today. With over 100 million monthly request for viewing – the streaming television platform is proving to be a popular media platform for the BBC – who are leading the way in online broadcasting much as they did with driving the home [read more...]

Make a note in your diary – Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 will be retired from support, for 32-bit platforms, from 13th July 2010 – so you will need to either upgrade to Service Pack 3 or migrate to a later platform. As there is no 64-bit version of Service Pack 3 the 64-bit [read more...]

When working in the office I like to listen to music and audio books as it helps me concentrate and prevents my mind from wandering from the task in hand. Whilst working and listening I tend to use headphones as not everyone may appreciate my musical, or audio book, tastes! Typically I use headphones so [read more...]

A month or so ago I wrote an article in my Computing column about why Small and Medium size business may be reluctant to refresh their telecommunications infrastructure – the primary reason being that telephony is a basic requirement for business “should all else fail” and, for the most part, small businesses are generally satisfied [read more...]

Palm have recently announced the Palm Pre Plus, an enhanced version of the Palm Pre, and the Palm Pixi Plus, with its fixed keyboard, are heading to the UK and will be available on the O2 network from May 28th 2010. This could be a good move for Palm, it’s webOS is a great platform, [read more...]