"Today’s business environments consist of all manner of technologies in and around the office"

Email has given us a powerful medium to communicate across continents, or just to the other side of the room. With it comes a high volume of messages, many of which are “cakes in the kitchen” style and others that contain large attachments.

Michael Caine, Cameron Diaz, Will Smith, Barbara Streisand, Patrick Swayze, (that’s not fair), Halle Berry and even Robert de Niro have won one. ‘The Golden Raspberry Award for Bad Acting’ has been giving actors a hard time about their roles for the last 40+ years. Held the night before the Oscars, the nadir award is just a bit of fun, an ignominious slap on the back for film flops in the panel's...

Managing your own IT can sometimes feel like a full-time job. How did IT become the centre of everyone’s business? The short answer is information. Every successful business needs to be able to tap into a sophisticated database of information to maintain its competitive edge. So, having your IT working for you and not against you, is key.

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a system that allows businesses to securely manage the devices that their employees use to access company data and resources

Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) provides an additional level of security to your systems and helps combat cyber attacks. When you login to a service such as RDS or Microsoft 365 not only do you enter your username and password but also via the MFA app prompt you confirm it's you.

So much has changed in the modern office over the last 50 years. Typewriters and fax have given way to the computer and email. Social media and the internet have opened up channels of communications and commerce that could never be imagined in the mid-20th century. Yet, despite all these technological advances the office telephone remains. A last bastion of communication in a changing world and...

Not quite the opening line of Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 1. However, in Shakespeare’s version as Bernardo looks out from the misty battlements, high up on the outer walls of Elsinore castle, he calls out to his fellow soldier, Francisco ‘Who’s there?’ Francisco replies ‘Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself’.

Wi-Fi is everywhere. Buses, trains, cafes and pubs of course. It’s at the gym, taxis, shopping centres, the list goes on. Hold on a minute, just let me check my bank statement, whilst I’m enjoying a mocha coffee. As they say, I’ll just pop in my password, which is the heart of the problem.

The news is full of it at the moment; a recession is just around the corner. ‘The recession we have been dreading is about to strike’, ‘it will be the longest and deepest recession since the 50’s’. Industry leaders will be rolling back budgets in anticipation, as revenues decrease. Costs must come down!