If they allow their buying decisions to be influenced by short-term trends, IT managers risk leaving their users without support when fashions change, warns Alistair Dabbs 06 May 2003
Flat-panel monitors are still more costly than conventional models, but their advantages may outweigh this fact and could bring long-term savings for firms, says Kelvyn Taylor 17 Jan 2003
In their enthusiasm for slick new devices, computer vendors spend millions developing products and frequently fail to notice their glaring defects, observes Alistair Dabbs 17 May 2002
VPen wireless devices will use a laser instead of ink so users can input data to handhelds by writing. The first products are due by the end of the year and have some big-name backers 10 May 2002
The Week in Green: What we need from the G8The G8 meets in Japan next week with three inter-related issues set to not just dominate the agenda, but tear it up, stamp on the pieces and tell all the...
03 Jul 2008
Rock n' roll commissionerSometimes politicians do things of which they should be very, very ashamed. Perhaps starting a war on spurious legal and moral grounds in which hundreds of thousand are likely to...
02 Jul 2008
The Eee PC has lost its magicThe Asus Eee PC 901 and beyond will disappear without trace within a year (New Asus models set for UK release, 13 June). Once again, the tech-heads and the marketing...
01 Jul 2008
Xerox's print tool helps roaming workersXerox's Mobile Express Driver is a free download that helps laptop users connect and print to a variety of printers without having to install specific drivers.If you are a travelling...
26 Jun 2008
The Week in Green It's been a pretty good week for the renewables sector.Of course, if you're feeling pessimistic on this fine Friday afternoon you could counter that every week needs to be a...
06 Jun 2008
The allure of the subnotebookIt's time for me to buy a new laptop, the old one having gone well past the point of pension.There was a time when I would simply have bought the...
02 Jun 2008
Unlocking information with social intelligenceA relative newcomer to the IT industry, Trampoline Systems, has just launched an even newer product called Sonar Flightdeck. So far so what, you might be thinking, but what Trampoline...
09 Apr 2008