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'Apple-clone' bankruptcy protection filing: Less cash for Apple?
News But now it looks like Apple will have to get in line. Unsecured creditors are last in line after secured creditors, which usually means lenders, business debts, and back taxes. In some cases, the... [27 May 2009]
Should you still be scared of malware?
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a... [06 Apr 2009]
How IT departments didn't flake in the snow
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a... [09 Feb 2009]
Apple is not lost without Steve Jobs
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a... [27 Jan 2009]
Web Xmas shopping heads for 10 per cent boost
News The latest is Deloitte that estimates online Christmas sales will increase by 10 per cent this year - a figure in line with predicted growth across the last 12 months. Shoppers in the North West are most likely to shop... [01 Dec 2008]
CIOs still say 'no thanks' to Windows Vista
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a... [28 Nov 2008]
Businesses ready for Facebook generation
News Apart from the risk of a breach of the Data Protection Act, my organisation takes a very hard line on disclosure of information in general in case it contains competitive information; it is used out of context; or... [15 Sep 2008]
Inbox: iPhone ad, red boxes, wi-fi piggybacking, sci-fi thinking
Comment Given that they already have a phone line installed, would it be a crazy idea to convert some of them into public wi-fi hotspots? I found one provided by a tourist information office in Northern Spain... [04 Sep 2008]
CIOs ready for flexi-time law
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a... [03 Sep 2008]
IT chiefs brace for recession
News If you are a CIO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a line at... [04 Aug 2008]
Editor's Blog: Back to the future
Comment Few companies, obliged to live quarter by quarter at the mercies of the market, will be thinking about 100 years down the line. So earlier this week I found myself in east London, getting kitted out in very big boots and... [24 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
News If you are a CIO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a line at... [21 Jul 2008]
'Generation Facebook' IT skills wasted at work
News Speakman said: "If you audit the technology that you've already invested in, audit the people that you've got and the skills that they have then you could really start to drive some additional productivity improvements - and that goes... [03 Mar 2008]
'Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked
News The data exchanged on this line is not encrypted. Both terminals have tamper-proof mechanisms inside, but both can be circumvented by tapping the data line of the PIN Entry Device/smartcard interface. [27 Feb 2008]
Northern Ireland police brings IT under one roof
News The various elements will be managed by around 100 Fujitsu Services staff and will also cover the fixed line telephony, wide area and local area networks, hosting and automatic number plate recognition camera technology. [06 Feb 2008]
