Articles
Our published articles cover an array of IT industry issues ranging from the Internet and technological developments such as XML to security and website design.
This page features some of our current articles, but we have many more in our article archive.
No place like home
Wednesday, 24 April 2013Yahoo's new Chief Executive, Marissa Mayer, has been making the headlines recently courtesy of a new policy which effectively revokes the company's longstanding flexible working policy. In an internal memo sent to staff in February, the head of Human Resources wrote: "We need to be ...
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Technology in Education - How to use it vs How to develop it
Friday, 15 March 2013Last month I attended the BETT Exhibition at Excel in London. For those of you who are unfamiliar with BETT, it is the British Educational Training and Technology show and has been taking place annually in London since 1985. BETT is a global community where individuals discover ...
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100 Days and 100 Nights
Tuesday, 19 February 2013By Neal Kelly, Infrastructure & Facilities Manager So you have completed the designs, the branding, the wireframes, the use-cases and onwards, through the development, the iterations, the testing, the enhancements, the tweaks and the changes. You've done the penetration ...
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Twenty Years L8R
Wednesday, 30 January 2013Having a kid at university - now that really is irrefutable evidence of middle age! Looking back, quite a lot has happened since 1993, the year Johanna was born, the year we formed PDMS Ltd, and coincidentally the year the first popular web browser Mosaic was released. They are ...
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A Beginner's Guide to the Cloud
Monday, 10 December 2012Undeniably the buzz term in the IT industry at the moment, is 'cloud computing'. We've all heard of the cloud, and lots of us are using cloud services to manage our personal IT (Hotmail, DropBox, Apple iCloud )… Increasingly however, clients, colleagues and contacts want to talk ...
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Head in the Clouds
Tuesday, 20 November 2012We recently worked with a client to provide them with a cloud based solution to help them store, control and share their key corporate documents. The issues they were dealing with regarding document management and collaboration within their organisation are fairly typical of those faced ...
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But isn't Marketing just Advertising?
Tuesday, 30 October 2012But isn't marketing just advertising? I was recently chatting to a friend's teenage daughter who was debating different career options. She asked me what I did for a living and when I explained that I worked in marketing she replied "ah isn't that just advertising - coming up ...
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Best Business Apps for iPhone
Tuesday, 25 September 2012Gone are the days when the Blackberry was the ubiquitous 'business phone' and iPhone, merely the young pretender. The iPhone is, these days, a seriously viable alternative to the Blackberry, due in part to the multitude of apps being developed to help business people use their phone for ...
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What's your problem?
Monday, 18 June 2012Hello! I'm Gemma, and have recently been appointed to the position of Business Development Manager at PDMS, the Isle of Man's largest software house. Manx born and bred, I was previously a Project Manager at PDMS, responsible for 'Digital Design' (our Website ...
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BYOT-Bring Your Own Technology
Tuesday, 22 May 2012By Neal Kelly, Infrastructure and Facilities Manager, PDMS At PDMS we have never stopped our staff using the company's computers (originally desktops and now laptops throughout) for personal use. We're keen for our staff to have a great work/life balance and it's always ...
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Should You Be Interested in Pinterest?
Tuesday, 08 May 2012The latest social media site causing major interest is Pinterest. Currently one of the fastest growing websites in Europe (12 million users and a month on month growth of over 800%) the site has been steadily growing its addicted base of users in the US for a couple of years now. And it seems ...
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Silicon London
Monday, 19 March 2012Founded on the Isle of Man in 1993, PDMS also opened an office in London in 2007. Having acquired our own headquarters in the Isle of Man Business Park in 2009, we are now also looking to expand our London office, and have been seeking larger office premises in the capital. Currently based in ...
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Monkey Business
Tuesday, 21 February 2012In my capacity as PDMS' marketing representative in London, I recently attended a number of seminars on cloud computing at the Cloud Expo 2012. The most memorable and beneficial session, for me, was one which discussed the outages Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered last year. Amazon's Web ...
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A look back over 2011
Monday, 23 January 2012It is difficult to believe that another year has gone by. The Christmas festivities now seem like a distant memory and I am now eagerly awaiting the signs of spring in the hope of a warm British summer. As I sit here reflecting on 2011, I can't help but feel extremely proud of ...
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Keeping yourself to yourself
Tuesday, 20 December 2011As we spend more and more time online and it becomes increasingly integral to our daily lives, we are at risk of exposing more and more of our personal data to the internet. Once there, it is nearly impossible to retrieve and the likelihood of it being picked up by an online directory ...
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