UK Police deployment of mobile technologies under surveillance

An £80 million Home Office programme to mobilise the UK’s police forces was broadly criticised in a recent report from the National Audit Office. In this month’s Smartalk, Steve Reynolds examines its findings and explores what went wrong.

Mobile trends for 2012

This year promises to be yet another exciting year for the mobile industry, here are my predictions for 2012

Public sector needs to retire the quick-fix and embrace integrated solutions

With austerity measures currently being put in place across the public sector, deployments of integrated smart technologies could finally begin to spread through fragmented systems. Acceptance should now spread quickly, but it has taken time.

Affordable technology for low cost labour - achieving ROI in Facilities Management

In the first of a series of items concentrating on specific sectors, Steve Reynolds examines how Facilities Management businesses can set about achieving return on investment from a nominal technology spend.

Preparing for consumerisation

The growing Consumerisation of IT has been mentioned in various guises across recent Smartalk items, but what do we mean by the term, and is it a force for good in business? Steve Reynolds explains.