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Web-conferencing and telepresence

Oliver Thompson, MD of training firm Transphorm, claims to have saved around £5,000 a year through using video-conferencing. Technology in Business / Wednesday, 10th February 2010

Five gadgets for the entrepreneur

Here we look at four must-have gadgets for the tech-loving entrepreneur – and one you can probably do without. Technology in Business / Tuesday, 8th December 2009

The Brickia

Pointless beyond words, The Brickia plugs into your new phone and allows you to make calls on this 1980s monstrosity. Technology in Business / Tuesday, 8th December 2009

Could energy harvesting work?

The air around us is full of stray electromagnetic radiation, which scientists at the Nokia Research Centre are looking at ways to “harvest” to power phones. Technology in Business / Thursday, 20th August 2009

How to outsmart a smartphone

It seems that CEOs are perfectly justified in their paranoia about staff passing on vital information to the competition. Technology in Business / Tuesday, 4th August 2009

The sWaP watch phone

If, like my dad, you mainly use your mobile phone to check the time, this could be right up your street. Technology in Business / Wednesday, 28th January 2009

Joined-up thinking

We investigate one way of retaining control of your employees' mobile devices. Technology in Business / Wednesday, 14th January 2009

Recording phone calls: what you need to know

From March next year, UK financial institutions will have to record phone calls relating to client orders. Technology in Business / Friday, 26th September 2008

Unified communications

If you liked VoIP, you'll like this. Technology in Business / Thursday, 28th August 2008

VoIP via your mobile

Technology moves quickly and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is no longer tied to the desktop PC. It’s now possible to make VoIP calls on a handheld device such as a mobile, which saves lugging a laptop around as well as cutting the cost of international calls. Technology in Business / Thursday, 22nd May 2008

Vodafone’s 7.2 USB Stick

If you're looking to reduce downtime when travelling between meetings but haven’t got your fingers around using a Blackberry keyboard yet, this could be the answer. Technology in Business / Friday, 11th April 2008

How WAN optimisation works

It’s not uncommon for a corporate litigator in the New York office of a law firm to be working on the same case as colleagues in New York or Brussels – sometimes over many years. The only problem is that the case notes the different groups are reviewing and updating over their wide area network (WAN) can amount to 100MB or more. Technology in Business / Friday, 14th March 2008

The Blackberry Pearl 8110

While the new Blackberry Pearl 8110 Smartphone doesn’t boast WiFi like the similar 8120 Pearl, it does have built-in GPS with Blackberry Maps software, so you can happily wander the city and not get lost in the process. Technology in Business / Friday, 14th March 2008

Making the most of web conferencing

If you’re hosting a virtual meeting, you can’t stop your attendees surfing the web, instant messaging, or succumbing to a myriad of other distractions. But you can maximise your chances of keeping them engaged, explains Stephane Guiblin, product manager at online communications specialist Premiere Global Services. Technology in Business / Monday, 22nd October 2007

Technology tailored to fit

‘Life On Demand’ is a term that epitomises the way our personal and business lives are heading in 2007. Today, companies make millions giving people the products and services to do any number of things on demand. Technology in Business / Friday, 29th June 2007

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