The Waverley Lane Blog

Most of you will have a handheld device of some sort – a Blackberry or a Windows Mobile device or a smartphone of some sort – great, aren’t they? You can have your whole life in the palm of your hand, until you leave it in the pub.

Found this on the Blackberry blog about keeping your information safe to start with, and what to do if you mislay it.

I’d emphasise the comment “call your IT company first” – if your device is synchronising with your server we can remotely wipe your information from it if it’s still connected, but not after you’ve asked Vodafone to put a stop on your account.

Call us first; we’ll remotely wipe your data from the missing device; then you (or we) can call the provider and get your service stopped until you get a new SIM card and device (which, if you’re with our Vodafone partner, might even be the same day).

Interesting to see in today’s Financial Times that Regus have high hopes for their serviced office business, as companies find the cost of city-centre accommodation inconvenient for their staff and too expensive.

The idea – having low-cost serviced office accommodation in easy-to-get-to suburban locations – might be a good one, but from what we’ve seen of Regus so far it seems that they’re expensive to rent space from, very expensive and restrictive on the IT services they provide, and their Edinburgh location is in the middle of the biggest rush-hour traffic jam in the east of Scotland.

It’s surely better to make sure that your own office is well-equipped with good IT connectivity and systems which will let your team work from home or on their travels, leaving them free to make their own arrangements for meeting clients and colleagues face-to-face wherever and whenever they want.