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iPhone in the UK: Hands up who wants one?
News And while analysts are in agreement the device is certainly very easy on the eye, they are less certain of the extent to which it will penetrate the mass market - for a variety of reasons. For the moment, the company is concentrating on the... [05 Nov 2007]
Jonathan Ive
AS Profile Although Ive has a reputation for keeping out of the public eye, he was awarded a CBE in the 2006 New Year Honours list. More than that, he has established levels of design in consumer electronics that the rest of the industry has been forced to... [12 Oct 2007]
Naked PCs: The naked truth
News Would anybody use an angle grinder without eye protection? For example, software engineer David Fletcher blamed "the likes of Microsoft" for dumbing down PC users by encouraging them to adopt a 'toaster-style' mentality towards their PCs: "They don... [02 Oct 2007]
Automated Red-Eye Detection and Correction in Digital Photographs
White Paper Caused by light reflected off the subject's retina, red-eye is a troublesome problem in consumer photography. Although most of the cameras have the red-eye reduction mode, the result reality is that no on-camera system is completely effective. [19 Jul 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
Comment The current figures are truly eye-watering. Over in the retail banking and insurance sectors the challenges are based around new consumer trends and changes in the way people find, choose and buy financial services products - largely due to... [19 Jun 2007]
Financial services CIOs reveal investment priorities
CIO Analysis The current figures are truly eye-watering. Over in the retail banking and insurance sectors the challenges are based around new consumer trends and changes in the way people find, choose and buy financial services products - largely due to... [06 Jun 2007]
Terabyte storage heading for consumer market
News That's something we have our eye on building products for," he said. EMC is considering entering the consumer market with its storage products because of the predicted digital information explosion over the next three years. [22 May 2007]
Leader: Why we keep our eye on the iPod
Leader As the device has proved, there's no longer such a clear defining line between enterprise and consumer hardware.iPods are regularly turning up in offices and finding their way onto corporate networks, as sys admins will testify, along with any... [11 Apr 2007]
Dell snaffles Motorola exec
News Dell executives have admitted the company took its eye off the ball last year in being slow to respond to customer support and quality concerns. Dell has hired Motorola's Ron Garriques to run the company's entire consumer business. [19 Feb 2007]
HP Branded Print Supplies Press All the Right Buttons for Bang & Olufsen
White Paper Achieving a turnover of DKK4,225 million (£569 million), Bang & Olufsen has 2,422 employees and with its eye for style and reliability, its preferred printer supplier is HP. Founded in 1925 in Struer, Denmark, Bang & Olufsen is world renowned for... [19 Dec 2006]
The New Apple of Malware's Eye: Is Mac OS X the Next Windows?
White Paper But as Apple's Macintosh OS X operating system (Mac OS) gains ground in the market and Apple's consumer technologies, such as iPod and iTunes, continues to enjoy widespread popularity, security researchers and hackers will increasingly point their... [18 Dec 2006]
Symbian: Microsoft has got it wrong
News Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford has hit out at arch-rival Microsoft's marketing strategy and business model - but has his eye on Gates-style US success. Microsoft, however, favours a more 'look at me' attitude to the mobile OS, running a high profile ad... [17 Oct 2006]
Leader: Longer battery life, please
Leader But as our readers (and indeed the silicon.com staff) are frequent users of all of the above, we do keep an eye on developments in consumer tech. silicon.com does not, as our regular readers know, review hardware such as laptops, mobile phones and... [10 Oct 2006]
Is the 'dumb blonde' phone here to stay?
Comment Making utile things beautiful is a trend that's has been dominating the entire consumer electronics industry, as monitor makers, MP3 manufacturers and assorted gadget designers seek to differentiate their products by making them appeal to the eye... [07 Aug 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's a zero-sum game
Comment The only criticism a Western eye might level is the abundance of people. But for the consumer there will have been a drastic reduction in prices and a massively increased supply of everything imaginable. [18 Jul 2006]
