By silicon.com, 22 December 2005 17:20
NEWS
Here we bring you a snapshot of just some of the highlights from the past year on silicon.com including our best-read stories, top interviews, biggest scoops and more not-to-be-missed content.
The top stories: Stories that proved popular with readers.
- Las Vegas cheats beaten by tech detection
- Gates: 'Linux makes interoperability harder'
- Dell dismisses "one-product wonder" iPod as a "fad"
- Doctors turn to iPods and open source to cut costs
- This text will self-destruct in 40 seconds
- BBC shuts down BlackBerry service due to flaw
- UK spam scandal deeper and messier than feared
- Gates was forced to rebuild Windows Vista
- Indian call centre staff in $350,000 Citibank theft
- Bill Gates takes the stage at Live 8
The interviews: Some of the individuals we put questions to this year.
- Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe
- Kevin Rollins, CEO of Dell
- Al-Noor Ramji, CIO of BT
- Neil Cameron, CIO of Unilever
- Ian Watmore, then-Government CIO
The scoops: A selection of the stories which broke on the pages of silicon.com.
- The 11 companies that run 80 per cent of government IT
- Exclusive: Las Vegas casino goes for RFID
- The Skype ecosystem: A labour of love
- Exclusive: The cost of joining Get Safe Online
- Unilever ditches global Linux migration plans
- Caesars Palace to launch guest biometrics
- BT leading the way for identity management
The stats: The year in numbers.
This year alone we've written 246 stories about Apple, 220 on outsourcing, 214 about Google, 209 about BT, 201 about Microsoft, 161 on VoIP, 134 on viruses, 112 on spyware, 99 on RFID, 94 about Dell, 78 about eBay, 71 about Vodafone, 60 about the BBC... and just one on UFOs.
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