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Telecommuting
Telecommuting: Telecommuting or telework is a work arrangement in which employees enjoy flexibility in working location and hours. In other words, the daily commute to a central place of work is replaced by telecommunication links. Many work from home, while others, occasionally also referred to as nomad workers or web commuters utilize mobile telecommunications technology to work from coffee shops or other locations. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Free and low cost video conferencing services have widely been adopted by businesses, but there are limitations to the quality and reliability of these ‘consumer’ grade services. Until recently, ‘business grade’ video conferencing was widely considered cost prohibitive.
Recently with new solutions coming onto the market, it is possible for SMBs to experience a higher standard of video conferencing without the quality ... read more
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Today’s global mobile workers - armed with iPads, smartphones and laptops - are working longer hours, reports mobility services firm iPass in their latest workforce survey on mobile working. So why are these same workers seemingly more content than ever before? The survey indicates that the majority of mobile workers feel empowered by the flexibility of mobile working and cloud services, even if it means clocking in longer work hours. What else can we glean from the survey? Let’s ta ... read more
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Home working has become a phenomenon as the benefits of having a virtual workforce are realised by businesses around the globe. According to new figures from WorkSimple, the majority of business leaders at Fortune 500 think that their mobile workforces will increase in size in the coming months and years. Placeholder0The survey also showed that telecommuting will come to the fore, with 61 per cent of firms offering this as a flexible benefit to their staff in the next th ... read more
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Videoconferencing is set to become a centerpiece of mainstream business communications, and advances in mobile technology are playing a crucial role in the take-up of enterprise video solutions and services. Tablets, smartphones and other mobile technologies are driving up user expectations and becoming increasingly vital collaborative tools.
Why mobile matters
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Now that you’ve decided to make the investment, like many SMBs, you may find the decision to add video conferencing capabilities much easier than figuring out how to deploy it. The technical terminology, implementation requirements, planning – it can all be overwhelming and confusing. This paper presents a series of steps that makes the process simpler, even if you don’t have a large IT department to assist in getting the technology operational.
The five steps are: read more
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The 4G row has now been settled and last week we reported
that we could see the new mobile broadband service rolling out to some cities
at the end of this month, thanks to the existing spectrum owned by EE, who will
begin offering the service before the Ofcom auction at the end of the year.
Now, Surrey University has received a £35m investment from
mobile operators, infrastructure providers and the UK Research Partnership
Investment Fund to begin looking into 5G. Work to ... read more
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Whilst videoconferencing is set to be the next big thing as
faster connections and more collaboration takes place, market leaders Cisco,
who in Q2 last year held a 49.3% market share, have reported a loss in revenue,
despite increasing interest from enterprises.
This is due, it has been reported, to the "uncertain global economy
and ... read more
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Cloud Services, which are IT Solutions and Services delivered and consumed real time over the Internet, have now become an integral part of daily operations for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
The ‘workplace’ is no longer a fixed location - remote, mobile and flexible working is now co ... read more
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New technologies announced by Polycom and Cisco could push the videoconferencing market out of its current stagnation, reports suggest. The former made an announcement in October which Polycom’s CEO Andy Miller called the "most important day in Polycom history".
Cisco also announced improvements to its collaboration suite ... read more
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Telecom regulators Ofcom has announced today that the UK broadband market has reached a new milestone in the level of competition, with ‘unbundled’ lines using BT’s copper network reaching 9 million.
Superfast broadband, which uses fibre optic cables to the cabinet is also beginning to see competition take hold, as the technology becomes more freely available around the country.
This is expected to see a rapid increase over the course of the coming months, read more
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The 4th annual Housing Technology conference and executive forum began today with a keynote speech given by World Cup winner and Team GB's Director of Sport for the London Olympics, Sir Clive Woodward OBE.
Sir Clive was expected to demonstrate how social housing providers can learn from the world of sport when it comes to building high performance, and how this can be applied to IT and business operations.
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Microsoft have revealed that they are to release their
Windows Pro version of the Surface tablet in January at a price of £560 for the
basic Intel-based version of the tablet. Unlike the Windows RT tablet, users
will be able to use third-party software on the device such as Photoshop.
The cheaper, ARM-based version of Surface only allows users
to work with applications currently in the Windows Store, which is woefully
empty of apps when compared to that of iOS and Android ... read more
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Telecoms regulator Ofcom has approved new measures to help consumers
when they put in a complaint about a company when they are having problems with
landline, mobile phone and broadband.
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) schemes act as a "middleman” in
the event that no resolution to a complaint can be found. The two new
organisations, "Ombudsman Services: Communications (OS) and the Communications
and Internet Services Adjudication Service (CISAS), must follow a set of comm ... read more
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Ofcom has announced that it has moved "a step closer”
towards the launch of consumer ‘white space’ devices to allow the technology to
be used in the UK.
White space devices use gaps in the radio spectrum, aptly
named ‘white space’ "which exist in between frequency bands that have been
reserved for TV broadcasting”. This will allow devices to use the gaps to
transmit and receive Wi-Fi signals for use as broadband access for rural
communities and other technologies.
Whit ... read more
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Ofcom’s latest telecoms and TV report on complaints data has
revealed that Orange has been the most complained about provider between July
and September 2012.
Ofcom’s seventh
quarterly report, publishes the latest data concerning the most and least
complained about ... read more
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Following the decision of Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer in February that remote workers should relocate to offices or leave, a debate has been raging about the issue and if she is right in saying that telecommuting cuts into worker’s productivity.
A large part of the problem seems to be that, whilst there are plenty of academic studies on the subject, these offer conflicting opinions on the usefulness of working from home. Add to this that there are no official figures on how many w ... read more
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Nobody could have failed to notice the explosion in tablet devices this year, whilst Apple’s iPad remains the market leader at the moment, Kindle Fire, Surface and Nexus are all snapping at Apple’s heels attempting to knock them off their perch.
According to new research from Forrester ![]() read more
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New research from telecommunications regulator Ofcom has found that broadband speeds in the UK have more than trebled over the last four years, with average speeds across the country now hitting 12 Mbps.
The study tested 643m connections in November of last year, on more than 2000 homes and looked at 12 packages offered by the eight largest UK ISPs, based on subscriber numbers.
On average, fixed line residential broadband ... read more
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Mobility is one of the most important considerations for businesses adopting unified communications solutions, it has been claimed. New figures from Nemertes Research have shown that telecommuting is on the increase and that businesses are willing to spend more on mobility in the workplace.
Placeholder0Nemertes Research, which conducted an in-depth workplace mobility study, has claimed that the trend is likely to continue. The firm's Irwin Lazar, vice-president and service ... read more
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A software developer working for a US company which is
described as being a "critical infrastructure” company has been found to be
outsourcing all of his programming work to China, whilst he spent his days
surfing the web.
Telecommunications provider Verizon were called in to
investigate, following the discovery that the company’s VPN was being accessed
via Shenyang, China. The VPN had been set up previously so that workers could
telecommute and used 2-factor authentication. < ... read more
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