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How to choose a business notebook
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It's very easy to buy the wrong notebook for your business, but only realise after you've paid. Here, PC Pro editor Tim Danton explains how to make the right choice.
Make Wireless work for your business
This collection of short articles explains exactly what each networking technology has to offer the smaller business, and how to take advantage without spending a fortune.
On the move part 1 – hotspots, airports and coffee shops
Whichever town or city you find yourself in, chances are there’ll be a wireless hotspot. Used wisely, they can offer a cheap, easy way to gain access to the internet and your network.
On the move part 2 – GPRS, 3G and HSDPA
For true mobility, you need a GPRS or 3G modem. It can either be a USB dongle or embedded into the notebook. We explain how to take advantage.
Wi-Fi – behind the letters
Wi-Fi may be the generic name for wireless technology built into notebooks, but how do you choose between the 802.11a, b, g and draft-n standards? We reveal what matters.
Features
How to manage your mobile fleet
Even if you have just one mobile worker in your business, you need to ask some tough questions about the potential risks that a notebook poses. If it fell into the wrong hands, would the data put your customer’s privacy at risk? Does it contain sensitive data about your business? If you don’t put protective measures in place, would you be opening yourself up to a potentially expensive and damaging lawsuit?
How to secure notebooks on the move
While the technology powering notebooks keeps on getting better, businesse’s efforts at guarding them do not seem to be keeping pace: the headlines in 2008 include a record number of notebook losses. Here, we list a number of physical and software-based steps which you can take to keep notebooks and their data safe.
Navigation
- How to choose a business notebook
- Features
- On the move part 1 – hotspots, airports and coffee shops
- On the move part 2 – GPRS, 3G and HSDPA
- Wi-Fi – behind the letters
- How to manage your mobile fleet
- How to secure notebooks on the move
- News
- Home Office axes data loss firm
- PC Probe: Critical data goes out of the back door
- One in six leave Wi-Fi wide open
- Data theft tops downtime in web security survey
- Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 8 beta 2
- View the security guide
