Archive - 17 Feb 2004
Exclusive: Met Police in £750m outsourcing 'megadeal'
Force will hand its entire IT to one supplier for next 10 years...
Perot Systems bags $40m Parsons IT deal
It's been a while since we heard from them...
Tech optimism - it's everywhere
Is the confidence helpful - or setting us up for another fall?
Web user numbers still growing
...and they all want broadband...
Town planners ditch the paper and pen for online
Portal site gives e-planning a boost
Progress report - smart phones 'must do better'
Though it's not actually the phones that are the problem...
Best of Reader Comments: No place for sexism in Linux
German gesture gets silicon.com's army of female readers up in arms...
Microsoft to give away rivals' software with new PCs?
Latest antitrust sidestep could go down like a cup of cold sick
City recovery boosts IT contractor demand and rates
And if you're a 'datawarehouse architect', well...
5 years ago... Online trading hits January high
Where would it all end?
Vodafone and AT&T: It's all over
Cingular makes it first past the post in the bidding war
T-Mobile's UK 3G network goes live
Quietly switches it on without any fuss...
Bluetooth phone hacking tools 'spreading quickly'
MP calls for manufacturers to fix the problem
Intel's photonic silicon heralds 'speed of light' computing
Boffins say it could make chips 50 times faster...
Devil's Advocate: Why Microsoft should be happy about open source
Roll on Mono, not a monoculture
IBM pushes on with 'self-healing' systems
Computers that manage and fix themselves...