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The latest news, issues and products for the office
Paper chase
IN BRIEF
SPEEDIER BROADBAND
Average broadband speeds
Every year offices in Western Europe produce enough
grew by 22 per cent last
printed paper to fill Wembley Stadium five times over – year, bringing the average
and yet much of this waste could be reduced. According
speed up to 4.478Mbps.
The research, from
to Samsung Electronics 83 per cent of companies are
www.broadband.co.uk,
not implementing basic technologies to help reduce the revealed the top performing
volume of waste paper. Compared to our continental
broadband providers:
counterparts the UK is amongst the best in Europe at 1 Virgin Media
tackling this wasteful issue – but there’s always room 2 BE/O2
for improvement: 3 Ta l k Ta l k
■ Ask colleagues to only print what’s necessary – if 4 Sky
they’re printing out a report to read through before 5 Orange
emailing then encourage them to read it on screen 6 BT
instead. Memos could be emailed or printed once 7 Tiscali
and pinned to a notice board. 8 Plusnet
■ Consider implementing a system which logs exactly 9 Eclipse
how much each worker is printing out. This system 10 AOL
should help to make workers think before they hit
print and could also help incentivise staff or whole
departments to reduce their waste.
Green
computing
Sony has launched its Vaio W Eco Edition laptop, with 20
per cent of the material for the plastic case coming from
recycled CDs. The addition of a carry case made from
recycled plastic bottles makes this a winner for its eco
STYLISH NOTE TAKING
HAS ARRIVED
credentials. But it also offers a 10.1 inch screen and a
There’s something about a
250GB hard drive making it an excellent choice to new year that sparks off a
replace the battered old work laptop with.
stationery-buying frenzy!
And just because it might
be work supplies you’re
looking for doesn’t mean
OFFICE GENIUS
Bag it
you should sacrifice style.
This leather notebook is
made from recycled material
and is the perfect size to
take into meetings with you.
Q: Help! We have virus protection on
How many times
It costs £14.95 from
the PCs in our small office, but I think
have you got to work
www.soulful-toaster.co.uk.
only to realise that
the virus protection has a virus! Is this
the all-important
THE NEWEST RIVAL TO
possible? Is there anyway we can
THE IPHONE
document you need
Google’s Nexus One
quickly check our system before
for the morning’s meet- smartphone will be launch-
everything falls over?
ing is in your other bag?
ing in Britain shortly and
will be available on the
It’s happened to us on more
Vodafone network. It’s the
than one occasion which is why we first phone to really rival the
A: It’s doubtful that your virus protection has a virus itself,
but perhaps some virulent nasty not recognised as a virus
love the business VIP Bag-in-a-bag
much-loved iPhone but how
does it stack up? Well
has invaded some part of system that the protection can’t from www.for-keeps.co.uk (£24). This handy
Google’s offering will boast
find internally. For a quick fix, run a free check available on
organiser can be inserted into any bag to keep all of a slightly bigger screen and
the internet at http://housecall.trendmicro.com/uk. Trend
your belongings together, and will ensure that every-
a more powerful camera but
Micro HouseCall scans your computer, then performs
will that be enough to
additional security checks to fix vulnerabilities to prevent
thing you need is transported from one bag to another –
tempt away Apple fans?
re-infection. whether that’s a handbag, laptop bag, briefcase or Only time will tell.
overnight bag.
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