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Internet Access on the Go

For the last few months I have been spending my time in multiple countries, which in Europe means that the almost universal 3G high speed access I enjoyed in the UK is no longer available to me. What I hear you say? well the issue is not one of service but one of cost. 3G [...]

Long Distance is not always about the travel

These are great tips for when you do not travel… As a freelancer and as a web-worker, one of the biggest challenges that I face nearly every day is that of working with people who I’ve never met face to face. Although a few clients contact me by telephone, most prefer to deal with me through [...]

Flying and health

Picked this up from Laptop Magazine, ‘But a story from CNN today focuses not on why people should avoid travel, but how to do it safely. Just over a month ago, weeks before H1N1 exploded, I did a similar story that asked whether flying really increases your chances of getting sick. As it turns out, CNN’s [...]

Carrying and Reading Information

Amazon has unveiled a new version of its Kindle e-reader, aimed at reading newspapers, magazines and documents. BBC NEWS | Technology | Amazon announces Kindle DX So the original Kindle was interesting if a little badly designed and ugly. The second generation kindle was ugly but without some of the more awful design flaws. Now we have [...]

Cost of the Loss of a Laptop

A new report by the Ponemon Institute in conjunction with Intel claims that the average cost to the enterprise of a stolen or lost laptop is $49,246, once you factor in not just replacement but intellectual property loss, lost productivity, forensics, and other downsides. Report: average stolen laptop cost is $50K; Intel: buy vPro - Ars [...]

Netbooks survival only in recession?

Will netbooks die off as the economy recovers? Liliputing has a great post here which is based on an Information Week article. My own view is that Netbooks are helped by their low cost, but that is not their point. Their success is more about their form factor and utility in a low cost package. There will [...]

Battery Life

Whether you use a netbook or an ultramobile notebook (same difference!), the one of the most important requirements in my view, particularly for the very mobile worker, is that it has a significant battery life - whole day preferably. Down with 3-Cell Batteries: Netbooks Should Have 5+ Hours of Battery Life The only problem with many 6 [...]

Laptop Security

Try thinking of your notebook or mini-note not as a computer but as a pile of cash. Would you leave $800 lying around on a library table or the front seat of your car? How about $300? Chances are you wouldn’t, and that’s because we instinctively realize that’s tantamount to inviting unscrupulous types to help [...]

The luck and loneliness of the long-distance worker

Sometimes when browsing the Internet, you come across some things that are old but still quite good. This article puts across the need to engage people who telecommute or work in a geographically distributed environment, to spend some facetime with each other. In the traditional office, workers are much like the individual members in a symphony [...]

Dedicated Skype Phone from Asus Finally Out

Asus have finally gotten around to releasing their Skype videophone that I talked about last November. “Asus has just released the first certified standalone Skype videophone which will make it easier for novice users to speak and see each other. The device, called the EEE AiGuru SV-1 Videophone, is the first non PC product of Asus’s popular [...]