IT use becoming more mobile

18:40 19th December 2008

IT professionals must adapt to the growing expectation of mobility among domestic IT users as well as those in the workplace.

Such is the prevalence of laptops and smartphones, office workers often need IT training to enable them to carry out their tasks remotely.

IT innovation is revolutionising the workplace and businesses must respond to the growing expectation of their workers that they should be able to work remotely.

Co-founder and chief strategy officer of The Cloud, Niall Murphy, commented: "Laptops far outsell fixed-line PCs or fixed-line mode PCs as a means of computing today and handheld devices are increasingly becoming internet centric devices as their principle mode of application."

Speaking at the Westminster eForum keynote seminar: Next Generation Broadband, he added that domestic and consumer internet users demanded that they have online access at all times and in all places.

According to the Ofcom report 'The Communications Market 2008', the average time people spend using PCs and laptops has jumped from six minutes to 24 minutes every day.