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News The system can also display adverts or offers related to business. According to Skype research, 30 per cent of its 309 million users use it for work and the company is trying to shed the perception of it being just a consumer tool. [02 Jul 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo It can suggest matching items to consider, as well as show adverts. silicon.com visited Fujitsu's Customer Experience Centre in Middlesex to see the Japanese company's vision for the future of retail. [04 Jun 2008]
'Noisy' anti-Phorm tool developed
News Phorm aims to serve targeted adverts to people by observing their anonymised web-browsing habits, and sending them tailored ads. An electronic privacy advocacy group has launched a tool they claim will inundate controversial ad-serving technology... [20 May 2008]
Guardian site gets million-pound makeover
News So, US readers will see US adverts and UK readers will see home-grown advertising against the same story. Guardian News & Media (GNM), the proprietor of The Guardian and The Observer is about to complete an 18-month project to revamp its website... [29 Feb 2008]
What's hot at Mobile World Congress 2008?
News Analysts are predicting a boom in the number of GPS-enabled handsets, which creates opportunities for all sorts of tailored apps and services (and also, therefore, adverts). The 2008 Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona on Monday 11... [07 Feb 2008]
Demand for tech workers hits six-year high
News Hot skills during 2007 that were increasingly listed as requirements in permanent job adverts included expertise in the programming language C#, SQL Server and Tibco products. The demand for IT and communications workers in the UK is at its highest... [08 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... 'me hearties shun Vista… techies on the move?… bosses out of tune
Comment Whenever I look round I see project managers on £60k but adverts for "London (City)- Banking. I appear to be seeing the same adverts as Richard. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [06 Dec 2007]
The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham
Comment The internet, however, has shaken up the insurance industry where dot-com upstarts like eSure - the one with Michael Winner's "calm down, dear… it's only a commercial" TV adverts - now compete against the established bricks and mortar stalwarts. [27 Nov 2007]
Revealed: UK's IT job hotspots
News Northern Ireland is in last place with less than one per cent and Wales is in the penultimate position with 1.2 per cent of the new IT jobs share, according to the research which is based on more than 25,000 job adverts. [14 Aug 2007]
Who's afraid of user-generated content?
News Last week, New Media Age reported that adverts for Capital One, eBay, First Direct, LoveFilm and Vodafone were appearing alongside the official Facebook group page of controversial political organisation, the British National Party. [06 Aug 2007]
Protect Your Windows PC - Essential Preventative Maintenance Spyware (Adware and Popups)
White Paper Spyware can cause pop-up adverts to appear, track your surfing habits, abuse your Internet connection by sending this data to a third party, hijack your browser start page and other web pages, alter important system files, and do all this without... [02 Aug 2007]
London gets free wi-fi network
News If users don't want to view the adverts, they are charged one of a range of tariffs, including £2.95 per hour or £9.95 per month. A free metropolitan wi-fi network has been launched in London, continuing the gradual trend towards free public... [16 Jul 2007]
PC World escapes punishment over chip ads
News PC World has escaped punishment from the UK's advertising watchdog after one of its adverts appeared to suggest Intel's dual-core processors performed twice as quickly as single-core processors. A national press advert for the retailer featured... [06 Jul 2007]
Photos: The Millennium Dome goes high-tech
Photo NEC said the technology is also available to create a full customer identity management system that would cover car parking, purchasing and collecting tickets - and allow Minority Report-style interaction with digital signs and adverts at the venue. [22 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Social networking
Cheat Sheet In an interview with silicon.com, Michael Birch, CEO of social networking site Bebo, referred to this new breed of adverts - call it 'advertising 2.0' if you will - as "engagement marketing", adding that it is "a more integrated experience" than... [15 Jun 2007]
