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20 years of Xbox – the Live Stream 18:00 GMT
If you are a big fan of Xbox – (something that passed me by, but did interest my children), you will want to catch the Live Stream this evening of the twentieth anniversary celebration of all things Xbox. Yes, you read that right. It is twenty years since Xbox burst into our lives and suddenly…
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Shop online with confidence
Black Friday originated in the USA but since around 2010 it gradually built-up momentum in the UK too. This year, Black Friday falls on Friday 26 November but many retailers have already started offering some great deals. So, is it really Black Friday or should we call it Black November instead? One thing is sure,…
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Clive’s weekly cyber security round-up
The theme this week seems to be your privacy, your family’s privacy, your friends and colleagues privacy and your business’s management of privacy.
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Clive’s weekly cyber security round-up
The Cyber Awareness Month project for October has now finished. Over the month Diana and I have produced a post everyday highlighting cyber security issues that have real impact on businesses today (well two or three of the articles were lighter, you do have to smile sometimes). If you want to catch up with all…
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What responsibilities do companies have for the environment and how does technology help?
Over the last twenty years or more, most governments have gently changed our attitudes and behaviours using nudging. How many people would regard it as OK these days to drink and drive, smoke in front of children, or spit in public? In thirty years’ time I can envisage young people being upset at older people…
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Business in an Age of Infinite Change
With rapid technological evolution and the globalisation of business, long before the COVID pandemic happened, we are living in an age of continuous change. Long ago Heraclitus said his famous words: “change is the only constant” and it comes with a choice to either accept it or resist it and stay behind. Is this right? Change may not be easy, but experts say that the pace of change won’t slow…
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Clive’s weekly cyber security round-up
The Cyber Security Awareness Month project– #BeCyberAware – finishes this Sunday but you can catch up on the series here: Click here for a summary of the project There are other articles covering simple things you have to get right like passwords to more complex issues like being able to measure your security readiness across…
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Regrets from 1983
Who remembers acoustic tape computer storage? A few weeks ago I wrote about the influence Sir Clive Sinclair had on my tech career: As part of that article I spoke about my first computer, a ZX81 kit. Now for the younger readers we did have floppy disks back then, floppy disks that bent, as opposed…
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Clive’s weekly cyber security round-up
This week’s theme is definitely privacy, with articles to make my readers think about privacy in their businesses to the issue of using biometrics in schools for students to pay for school meals. If you think privacy is something that is easy to define, have a look at this article before scrolling down: I have…
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Server Down
It’s a Sunday morning. I wake up and there is an email on my phone. It is from our Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) system. One of the servers we look after hasn’t communicated with the system for over 15 minutes. I get up, have a cup of tea then see if I can connect…
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Clive’s weekly cyber security round-up
Diana has a project running to have a blog every day in October supporting Cyber Security Awareness Month – #BeCyberAware.
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Efektywna współpraca zdalna – łut szczęścia czy dobra organizacja?
Ilość badań przeprowadzonych wokół koncepcji pracy w domu jest imponująca. Od 7 lat researchuje ten temat z uwagą i zainteresowaniem, i chociaż powszechnie uważa się, że pracownicy zdalni są bardziej produktywni niż ich koledzy pracujący w biurowcach, praca w domu może wiązać się z wyzwaniami i problemami, zwłaszcza kiedy mowa o współpracy większej liczby osób…
