Monthly Archives: March, 2009

Skype Starting to Dominate the International Long-distance pie

Skype has emerged as the largest provider of cross-border voice communications in the world.’ Skype Starting to Dominate the International Long-distance pie. Certainly as a small business undertaking much of my service on customer sites in multiple countries, Skype has become a huge part of my mobile communications infrastructure, providing low cost international roaming phone [...]

Travel Assistance

As I have just begun a heavy round of travelling, I started to look around for help with the tracking of all my travel and hotel layovers. As I will be travelling every week for a long period, I really needed something that will both help in the practical forward planning of trips and also [...]

Whole Disk Encryption Update

It has been a whole week since I moved my main machine over to using whole disk encryption through Truecrypt. I though it was timely just to give a short update on experiences. Firstly, it has not crashed . Everything is working fine exactly the same as my experience immediately after the installation. Secondly, the [...]

Getting Things Done

Not all the things that a Long Distance Worker has to look at is pure technology. One major aspect is making yourself more productive as you tend to be amongst the busiest people in any company. Getting Things Done is a phrase you may have picked up on the Internet and it has become an [...]

Whole Disk Encryption – The Holy Grail

You have your nice laptop for running around the world with, you are on a business trip to Warsaw and then suddenly after getting off the plane and on your way to your meeting you find that you do not have it. Doh! you remember that you put it in the little pocket of the [...]

Corporate USB Flash Drives – The new era in Mobile Data Security?

With equipment loss and theft at increasingly high levels, according to a recent survey commissioned by Dell, “up to 12,000 Laptop Computers were lost weekly and up to 600,000 lost annually in U.S. Airports with 53 percent of mobile professionals carrying confidential company information”, the decision of where to store data is a common one, [...]