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Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News Editor's blog silicon.com editor, Tony Hallett, makes some observations about modern air travel and says you can tear up that boarding pass… Gatwick airport is the latest UK airport to trial biometric... [09 Oct 2007]
Teradata and SAS going steady
News Teradata, the datawarehouse software specialist with its own NYSE listing as of a week ago, has announced a strategic partnership with business intelligence (BI) vendor SAS. The two companies' products will get closer technical... [09 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Tear up that boarding pass...
Comment I'm lucky when it comes to travelling for work. I often get asked how much I have to travel. The answer is that I travel mainly about as much as I want to, with my days of being ordered off on reporting assignments to far-flung places... [08 Oct 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 05.10.07
Round-Up Podcast Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Tony Hallett, Julian Goldsmith and Natasha Lomas. The price of iPod Nanos, Radiohead's great music giveaway, swearing on MySpace, Microsoft's 'big-ass'... [05 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Tony Hallett flags up his picks on the site this week. How to stop "runaway" ERP projects What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [04 Oct 2007]
Award win: silicon.com nabs Editorial Team of the Year gong
News They also picked up on silicon.com's original reporting and special reports from more than 20 countries over the past year, exclusives, campaigns and the use of the latest technology to deliver reports whether in text or - increasingly -... [04 Oct 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 28.09.07
Round-Up Podcast Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Tony Hallett, Steve Ranger and Tim Ferguson. Striking in Second Life, ID cards and the Pet Shop Boys, and 'bedroom' call centres are all up for discussion... [28 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Burmese days on the internet
Comment The last few days have seen events in Burma reach the kind of intensity we've seen in several countries over the past 20 years or so. Or at least that's how it seems, through the keyhole of leaked video phone images, second hand reports... [27 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Tony Hallett flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Exclusive: AA terminates £50m IBM deal This is a good combination of some breaking news and an on-the-spot... [27 Sep 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Femtocell
Cheat Sheet Femtocell. I'll avoid the Austin Powers gags. Thanks. Tell me, what does it mean? A femtocell is a small cellular base station - some might say picocell - that will connect to broadband connections in homes or offices. [25 Sep 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 21.09.07
Round-Up Podcast Steve Ranger hosts and is joined in the studio by Tony Hallett, Natasha Lomas and Tim Ferguson. The UK iPhone launch, happy birthday to the smiley, new tech terms in the dictionary and silicon.com's... [21 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... open source vs MS, budget overruns, the iPhone, patents...
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Tony Hallett flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Businesses cool on software as a service It's no fad but no slam dunk either ¦ Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up... [20 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Nortel's comeback?
Comment I quite often get asked to meet visiting tech CEOs. I mention that not because it might seem obvious but because they're sometimes from companies I never really covered much as a reporter. But yesterday I caught up with Mike Zafirovski,... [20 Sep 2007]
Nortel CEO: 'Hyperconnectivity' the big opportunity
News "Anything that can be connected will be connected" - that's the essence of 'hyperconnectivity', a term which Nortel has been trumpeting since the spring time and which looms large over most developments at the communications equipment... [20 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Ranking everything
Comment I noticed a story this morning about the favourite brands in the UK. It wasn't dominated by big tech and internet names - think Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook. Nor was it the usual run-down you see in brand equity league tables -... [13 Sep 2007]
