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Emailing of tax returns, payslips etc – are we breaking the law?

Are you sending tax returns via email? How about payslips… or accounts?  Do any of these documents have passwords? Are any of them encrypted? Perhaps you are using Dropbox or similar?

Are you complying with best practice....?
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Creating value or throwing money down the drain?

I went to an interesting presentation yesterday on that old chestnut, getting value from IT investments. The research which was presented (by the INSEAD e-Lab) focused on three new technology areas – cloud, mobile and collaboration – and aimed to fi...

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Windows 8.1 goes Blue

Microsoft has a Windows 8.1 update (code name Blue) that is coming sooner than you might expect.

Microsoft launched Windows 8 in October 2012 and as far as it goes for this PC user there wasn't much to dislike, it was also tricky to see why I...

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Software implementation - not all software is the same!

I spent three days last week in Scotland. Another few days off according to my staff! I wish!

Called in to help with a software implementation, this caused lots of head scratching and sleepless nights getting it to function in a usable manner.

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Security breaches in SMEs reach record levels

I was at the launch of the 2013 PwC information security breach survey results yesterday and the overall message was pretty grim - more attacks, more breaches and more losses to businesses and UK plc. The survey results make particularly worrying re...

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Business benefits of cloud

At the ICAEW cloud event held this week at Moorgate Place, Chris Tiernan highlighted on a slide the business benefits of cloud technology.  I consider my experiences against this list.