Category: Technology

With the launch of Windows 8, Microsoft hopes to challenge Google and Apple for the dominance of the tablet category. Microsoft has described the update as its most radical, and has even produced its own range of computers called Surface, to showcase it, Charles Mayes, Managing Director, DAV Management, looks at the benefits & processes involved in making the change.

In an era of highly advanced business communication proven by the numerous innovations that emerged in recent years, it would be easy to assume that faxing will soon be extinct. While modernisation has indeed made different forms of communication obsolete in the past? Aisling Brennan, from eFax asks whether the fax machine is still relevant.

Whatever the future holds for small business, it’s a sure fire certainty that we are going to see an increased reliance on technology as the years roll by. E-invoicing, high speed broadband, 4G – all emerging technologies which, sooner or later, businesses are going to have to consider, or face falling behind the competition.

Greg Poulson of web developers and SEO specialists Freetimers looks at how advances in internet technology have affected businesses, offering an insight into the future.

Running a business can be stressful for so many reasons. There’s the hours involved in making sure everything’s running as smoothly as possible, the constant travelling and above all else, there’s the pressure to make sure that the business is financially viable.

Business servers older than five years are costing businesses all over the UK millions of pounds every year, warn Coventry IT experts Netmetix Limited.

Choosing a software developer is often a difficult task – much like choosing the builder for your dream home. If you go to the extreme of hiring the cheapest developers you will most likely end up with an amateur and a nightmare on your hands. At the other end of the scale, very few businesses can afford vanity projects by working with the biggest names in the business.

Having seen its market share drop by more than half in the last year alone Research In Motion (RIM) is hoping today’s launch of the BlackBerry 10 will reverse its fortunes.

Enterprise employees are increasingly bringing their own wireless smartphones and tablets to the office, and they expect them to work in all locations. The “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend threatens to swamp enterprise network capabilities and make for a lot of dissatisfied users.