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How to choose a business notebook

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.

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 customers’ 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, businesses’ 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.

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