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RSS smellThe silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.03
Comment Not quite true: smell often acts as a handy guide for men to tell when their socks/pants need washing. Wallace and Gromit eat your heart out: some UK boffins have invented a pair of genuinely clever trousers. [14 Mar 2003]
Serialisation: The Great Telecoms Swindle - part 1
Comment WorldCom, hot on the heels of Enron, suggested a smell of rotten eggs was emanating from the boardroom, that the world of high finance and corporate leadership was rigged against investors by a clique of insiders who... [20 Jan 2003]
Serialisation: The Great Telecoms Swindle - part 1
Comment WorldCom, hot on the heels of Enron, suggested a smell of rotten eggs was emanating from the boardroom, that the world of high finance and corporate leadership was rigged against investors by a clique of insiders who... [20 Jan 2003]
Helpdesk hell: your reader comments (part 2)
News I took the call and she explained that she was using our software when she noticed a strange smell. Last week we wrote about some of the tales of helpdesk woe that plague the put-upon desktop support teams and customer... [20 Aug 2002]
We hope you like jamming too - banning mobiles in public places
Comment A small victory was recorded today for all those opposed to mobile phones going off in public. A New York politician launched a bill to ban the use of mobiles in cinemas, theatres, art galleries and a number of other venue types. [15 Aug 2002]
Helpdesk hell: Your reader comments
News My printer stopped working and now there's a funny smell' We asked the question: "Are people really this stupid? and it seems you think they are. We've had a flood of reader comments. Here are some of the best of them. [14 Aug 2002]
Start-up of the month: Aleri - from classical music to banking analytics
Comment Sitting in the austere reception room of financial software start up Aleri one can't help but notice it has the hushed aura of a dentist's waiting room - minus the smell of disinfectant and copies of last year's gossip... [25 Jun 2002]
Are the days of the free internet over? Your views on the big question
News Wake up and smell the coffee http://www.silicon.com/a51792 ) - has hit a nerve with silicon.com readers As the pick of the comments below suggest most readers believe paid for content is not only bad for the sites which... [08 Mar 2002]
Re:Viewing 2001: Broadband - how an industry nearly unbundled itself
News February: The 'local loop droop troop' swells to the size of an army as numerous telecoms operators wake up, smell the coffee and then abandon the idea of trying to put their own broadband equipment into BT's exchanges. [21 Dec 2001]
Beauty products get web facelift
News Beauty website Gloss.com will be back in business this Christmas, with the backing of cosmetics giant Estee Lauder. The website, which relaunches today just ahead of the busy shopping season, was taken over by Estee Lauder last April,... [24 Oct 2001]
Sci-fi or sci-future? Hollywood technology scrutinised
Comment PETER COCHRANE: People have been using their brains as bit transport for millennia - we hear, see, feel, smell, and convey to others via language and pictures. We asked two of the world's top tech thinkers to cast... [18 Oct 2001]
Thinking about your holidays: Technology takes the pain away
Comment Flight and holiday website ebookers.com has come up with five possibilities for the future that will greatly change the travel industry, ranging from the humdrum (3G phone networks - which we will stick our necks out and say will... [29 Aug 2001]
Top five most embarrassing digital blunders... ever!
Comment Understandable, really, since the email read as follows: "The hills are alive with the smell of hooverbags, I know, I spread em. Last month silicon.com started asking readers to share those heart-stopping, blood-draining... [19 Jul 2001]
Swiss Tony hits the Web
Comment The RMIF spokesman said he feared people would miss "the excitement, the smell" of the showroom experience. Vauxhall appears to have achieved the Holy Grail of ecommerce - it's set up a direct sales operation without... [26 Oct 1999]
Daewoo paves way for online car sales
News The RMIF spokesman said he fears people will miss "the excitement, the smell" of the showroom experience. South Korean car manufacturer, Daewoo will be first major company to set up a Web site allowing direct sales of... [04 Feb 1999]
