second life this week
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 07.02.03
Comment In a slightly strange 'life imitates art' kind of way, a current Archers storyline has Jolene showing Joe Grundy how to send emails in the new cybercafé set up in The Bull, Ambridge's local boozer. But here's one that... [10 Feb 2003]
Mobile comms: Are the Americans beating us at our own game?
Comment While not themselves quite living the mobile good life of South Korea or Japan, Americans are quick to point out that us Europeans have 'messed up big time' with the move to third-generation networks and handsets. [18 Oct 2002]
The Devil's Advocate: Out to grass with no fund
Comment Money is a relatively recent invention and there are still a few societies where it is not central to life. Last week, we confronted some of the problems people will face when their lives depend on... [15 Oct 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Putting IT people out to grass
Comment Martin Brampton wonders whether there should be another way of preparing for life after work. All that I will be offered is another piece of paper that entitles me to draw an income for the rest of my... [08 Oct 2002]
Intel goes Banias
News The mantra from executives at this week's Intel Developer Forum has been simple: Banias will mean longer battery life, better CPU performance, wireless LAN connectivity and new device... [11 Sep 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: the US pays for it online and MMS - winner or loser?
Comment Multimedia text messaging has been touted as a life saver for businesses involved with the wireless industry - everyone from carriers to integrators. These include real.com, at number one, wsj.com came in... [19 Aug 2002]
EDS claims .Net first for online banking
News It's always evolutionary, nothing is shrink-wrapped and goes in perfect, it comes about through working in a real-life situation," said Dowles. Aside from EDS's claims that the project is a world first, the... [15 Aug 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Cisco cheer, Microsoft licensing and IBM wrestling with Oracle
Comment The plan was to make life simpler and to offer users more choice by bringing in a new 'software assurance' programme to replace existing one-shot upgrade offerings with a small number of new support and service contracts. [13 May 2002]
Dot-com shockers and the Grabiner effect
Comment Tales from 21st century life, number 47. David Sear of WorldPay saw the mention in last week's Round-Up of Vodafone's billing agent SinglePoint (see the original story here http://www.silicon.com/a52720... [25 Apr 2002]
Making UK Online as big as FriendsReunited
Comment Even if all it does is enable the submission of tax returns at the eleventh hour it will change everyday life. UK Online celebrates its second birthday http://www.silicon.com/a49703 So why are only 1.2... [04 Mar 2002]
PC sales fall hard
News IDC analyst Sami Pohjalainen said in the current negative economic climate PC purchases were the first to get hit: "Traditionally businesses look to replace PCs every three years - now this life-cycle... [22 Oct 2001]
The snake on the make
Comment Readers of last week's Round-Up may remember the strange case of Standard Life's online banking arm (http://www.silicon.com/a48050). To cut a long story short, it transpires that Standard... [19 Oct 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Work work work, OS attacks and the secret of Google's success
Comment The campaign seeks to promote a better work/social life balance for workers, which if the quoted statistics are correct, many UK staff desperately need. Several surveys have indicated that British workers toil on average... [28 Aug 2001]
Buy.com saved by $9m injection
News Buy.com has been rescued for the second time in just two weeks by its millionaire founder, with a $9m cash injection. Earlier this week the troubled US e-tailer faced closure because the... [24 Aug 2001]
John Lamb's week: Intel price cuts on the horizon?
Comment Calling the internet a virtual world is a cliché, but for disabled people the prospect of being released from the restrictions of everyday life is not. This week top female A-level... [17 Aug 2001]
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