| 30th March, 2012
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At the risk of appearing old and ultra conservative, which I am not by the way (he says defensively), I have long appreciated that times are a changing, not only in the use of technology and how it is engaged but by the people that use it and how it permeates all of our lives regardless of age or demographic. But I’ve covered this before....
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| 23rd March, 2012
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When it comes to mobile computing for business where do you start? With laptops there are already a handful of dominant players such as HP, Toshiba, Dell, Asus and Lenovo. But today I’m reviewing the new kid on the block – Samsung.
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Samsung first launched their range of Business laptops last year and...
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| 21st March, 2012
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There used to be a phrase, ‘cash is king’, i.e. that while it was perceived that having a platinum or even better a ‘noire’ credit card was flash and showed you had actually ‘arrived’ meant that you didn’t necessarily have the money to back it up.
I like to think that I coined the phrase ‘content is king’ but I didnâ...
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| 31st January, 2012
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I've mentioned before about the need for organisations in our business to be able to prove and articulate the potential Return on Investment of any project or system that you're selling.
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Certainly the World changed post dot com 'boom' when the tech market imploded and companies that were previously purchasing technology quite ...
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| 27th January, 2012
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We, in the ICT sector more often than not forget that the industry has its' own terminology and sometimes to the layman what probably appears to be another language. I state this because the amount of meetings that I sit through where three letter acronyms or the dreaded TLA's as we should refer to them are so often used. Of course we've moved a...
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| 23rd January, 2012
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It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of ‘Working from Home ‘ (or as we would refer to it as ‘WFH’), was considered as an excuse for staying at home in the pretext of working yet actually staying in bed, occasionally checking emails (dial-up then of course) while watching Jeremy Kyle or probably in those days...
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| 17th January, 2012
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As you may be aware, Conjungo is about helping people and organisations find appropriate technology and to understand what technology is and does. As part of this service I thought I would offer some advice.
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There seems to be no end to the stories of Government officials losing their memory sticks, all of course hold huge amou...
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| 12th January, 2012
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I was recently discussing the position with regard to Friends Reunited.
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It had, we thought the ability to be considered what Facebook is today, at least in people's perception and I stated that I would discuss at some point the reason why it has never achieved dominance in the market for social networking.
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| 11th January, 2012
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I needed the services of a plumber the other day, so I decided to use two mediums to find a good one.
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First of all I used a directory, which I normally throw away, and found that people still will use such terms as AAAAAArdvark Plumbing Services. (If there is such a company out there by that name, please accept my apologies as...
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| 9th January, 2012
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I recently discussed with some people about size of memory and how incredibly small it can be, especially considering how much data some storage cards can hold.
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It struck me that it wasn’t only the manufacturers that were forcing the pace on size and weight, but like all markets it is forced by end user demand.
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| 5th January, 2012
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I was recently at a house in mainland Europe where the local electricity board (or whatever they’re called these days) fitted a new electric meter. What was so special about this meter is that meter readers could read the meter remotely i.e. didn’t have to send out a bloke on a weekday when most people are out and ther...
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| 4th January, 2012
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It’s an accepted fact that as companies get bigger they can reap the rewards of economies of scale. Like all activities and actions there is also a downside, i.e. diseconomies of scale.
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This can be anything from a breakdown in internal communications to working a single, cohesive unit. It is a daunting task to ma...
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| 3rd January, 2012
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The onset of mobility or mobile solutions has changed the way in which we work. Gone are the days when we would have to find a phone to call the office and get messages. Gone are the days when we had to wait until we got back o the office in order to catch up on emails.
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It wasn’t that long ago that it was the norm for busine...
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| 30th December, 2011
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According to Frost and Sullivan http://www.microscope.co.uk/news/reseller-news/channel-urged-to-verticalise-offerings-in-2012/, channel partners are 'being urged to verticalise'. Unless I’m missing the point, this approach ha...
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| 28th December, 2011
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Yet another term that is being used by the technology sector! Like so many other expressions generated by the ICT sector, this can leave people confused or in some instances mislead.
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So what is it? What does it mean? What are the benefits?
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Agile computing was a term first coined to describe a new methodology...
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| 23rd December, 2011
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Since the onset of the Internet and the growth of the way in which organisations transact and market themselves has drastically changed. There are many examples of this, in particular the retail market. The problem of course is that people in the case of fashion is that people would like to see the items for themselves and of course try for ‘f...
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| 22nd December, 2011
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It wasn't that long ago that technology was pretty much out of the realms of most peoples' and organisations' budgets. These days, unless I'm pretty much mistaken, all companies have some form of IT. This means that regardless of size and budget, companies can produce professional documents, budgets etc. This gives the market to some extent a 'l...
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| 15th December, 2011
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I seem to have taken on the lazy habit of using and accepting terminology which I don’t actually understand fully. By this I mean that for some considerable time I’ve been using the term Web 2 without truly understanding what it means.
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I had always assumed that Web 2 was (naturally) the next generation of the Interne...
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| 13th December, 2011
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We recently launched our new site incorporating Conjungo2Market & campaign store; This is where resellers can take part in pre-approved marketing campaigns in a matter of minutes as the system automatically populates the campaign with their logo, 500 words about their company, company details and even a twitter feed to support any social med...
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| 9th December, 2011
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I read a great blog today; http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/2427/cloud-security-advice-we-trust-your-peril%E2%80%A6 which underpins my thoughts on the whole notion of ‘cloud computing’ & about the issues ...
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