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Despite promises to the contrary by the Government, schools across the UK are facing significant cuts to their budgets. According to IT Channel Expert’s sister publication PCR, redundancies for non-teaching staff are even being considered by some secondary schools as they attempt to balance the books. These are tough times …

PCR editor Dominic Sacco looks at the back to school opportunities and Cisco's investment

Rowena Thomas from ESPO explains why schools use frameworks

Public sector authorities across the land attract sales departments like bees to a honey pot, and from across almost all market sectors, not just IT. Departments in the public sector can be vast, from local to central government and everything in between, including police, NHS, schools, MoD and even lesser …

Canon's Michelle Nicholas says students demand newer tech

Advocates of greater collaboration in the workplace face a number of challenges. First, they are hampered by 25 years of archaic file-based desktop PC working throughout the enterprise. This is not fit for today’s workplace. Different teams within an organisation are responsible for entirely different outputs – but need to …

The Internet of Things (IoT), a phrase coined in the late 1990s, is the art of making a ‘stupid’ device ‘smart’ and thus giving it the ability to transfer data over a network from machine to machine. One of the first of these ‘smart’ devices was a Coca-Cola vending machine. …

In today’s digital world, it should be ‘business as usual’ when city dwellers are faced with transport turmoil. With every strike comes lots of advice on how to travel across the capital, but sadly it doesn’t stop the disruption as employees arrive late and try to head off early. As …

It’s often said that engineering is the compromise between dreams and reality. Indeed, the process of balancing the competing factors of high computing performance, low power consumption, cool operation, and light weight is a perfect example of the engineering trade-offs that must be considered with every design. Not long ago, …

Do you find yourself day dreaming about a world outside the confines of your office walls? Well it’s time to do something about it. The brilliant thing about technology is that it acts as an enabler for what would otherwise be nothing more than a pipe dream. Gone are the …