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Darth Vader brought his own device...

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog piece called "Bring Your Own Delusion (BYOD)". In this piece I explored the thought that reactions to recent BYOD noise are largely emotional. This time round I... Read more

16 May, 2012 12:09 by BarryGill

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Mobile phone sales dip while smartphones boom

Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users fell by 2 percent to 419.1 million units in the first quarter of 2012, according to Gartner, mainly due to a slowdown in sales to users in the Asia/Pacific region. However, smartphones sales boomed, growing by 44.7 percent to 144.4 million units. South Korea's Samsung became the largest supplier of both mobile phones and smartphones, as Android took more than half the... Read more

HTC One V

HTC's One range of handsets comprises three models. There's the flagship HTC One X with its quad-core processor and vast 4.7in., 720-by-1,280-pixel screen, and the smaller, perhaps more manageable, HTC One S with its 4.3in. display.

The third HTC One handset has rather slipped under the radar, but the One V just might be the best of all. For the reasonably affordable price of £238 (inc. VAT) from online... Read more

Contribute, contract; endorse? Technology reputations

Technology companies need to be careful about who and what they're seen to support. Lie down with dogs, goes the saying, and you'll get up with fleas. From SOPA to CISPA to campaigners who oppose gay marriage, disapprove of women in the workplace or associate climate change scientists with terrorists, technology companies have had some strange bedfellows recently.

Backing SOPA lost Go Daddy more customers than... Read more

SMBs adopt the cloud without security

Security has take another knock as a prime barrier to the adoption of cloud computing.

A survey commissioned by Microsoft (whose involvement was not revealed to the respondees) found that small to medium-sized businesses might gain a fair amount from adopting cloud computing. The survey, conducted with organisations in Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore and the USA, reckoned that most organisations viewed a... Read more

Microsoft's score card for Smoked by Windows Phone

Microsoft has published some numbers about the challenges held as part of its Smoked by Windows Phone marketing campaign, which started at the Consumer Electronics Show in January and is currently touring the UK. Obviously it's winning most of the challenges, or it wouldn't be doing it.

When Microsoft published its blog post last week, it said it had won 50,675 challenges and lost 638 for a 98 percent score.... Read more

The Idle Self-employed

What this country needs is a new scapegoat for ordinary, hard-working, honest families to blame for our economic woes.

Bankers no longer cut it, they’re yesterday’s news. How about contractors, freelancers, and the swelling ranks of the self-employed? They don’t work full-time, 9 to 5. They get paid way more than poor down-trodden employees. They magically declare an income which matches their personal... Read more

The changing face of the workplace

Cloud computing is essentially about paying for what you need in terms of IT services and getting it when you want it. In principle start-up companies can get off the ground, and major organisations reorient their infrastructure, in days - as they don’t need onerous capital investment for IT infrastructure.

It naturally follows that working practices are also going to change. We can already see this within... Read more

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BarryGill

Darth Vader brought his own device...

Blog Post A few weeks ago I wrote a blog piece called "Bring Your Own Delusion (BYOD)"....

16 May, 2012 by BarryGill
Jack Schofield

Mobile phone sales dip while smartphones boom

Blog Post Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users fell by 2 percent to 419.1...

16 May, 2012 by Jack Schofield
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HTC One V

Blog Post HTC's One range of handsets comprises three models. There's the flagship HTC...

16 May, 2012 by First Take
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Contribute, contract; endorse? Technology reputations

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16 May, 2012 by Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

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