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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment The examples seem endless: Y2K, the coming ice age, various pandemics, and so on. Initial media reports for short-term deaths ranged from 2,000 to 30,000 individuals. Since the packs were almost identical, any time spent on deliberation must have... [28 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up Other people use it in the context of a government that has a heavy-handed approach to dealing with personal privacy in the age of ever-pervasive terrorist threats. Still a reasonable number given the state of the PC market but a little short of... [23 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment Karen is right about the age issue but it's still about gender and other forms of stereotypes. IT education is in a bad state because the said people have tried to manipulated education/governments to suit their short term needs. [22 May 2008]
Personal Privacy for Computer Users ...
White Paper All of these phenomena raise issues of privacy in the age of cyberspace. In this short paper, ordinary, non-technical users can get a sense of the fundamental issues that face all of us as we try to strike a balance between efficient commerce and... [10 Apr 2008]
Consumer Managed Access to Financial Accounts and Sensitive Websites: A New Approach to an Increasingly Serious Challenge
White Paper The coming of a connected digital age has meant benefits in terms of enjoyment, convenience, productivity and efficiencies that would have been unbelievable even just a few short years ago. More and more people are banking online, paying bills... [11 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
Comment This experience will prove valuable as he brings the building society into the web 2.0 age. Possibly one of the legendary accounting pirates from Monty Python's Crimson Permanent Assurance short film. [11 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Ageism, broadband row, ID cards…
Comment Having left the IT sector five years ago due to not being able to find suitable contract or permanent employment due, I think, to my age - 57 - I reskilled and became a driving instructor. In answer to Cassandra] Because the public sector specified... [31 Jan 2008]
Photos: What should be crowned the king of Apple cool?
Photo Although it took until version 10.3, known as Panther, to really come of age, Apple's crown jewels have won it plaudits for usability, design élan, stability and interoperability. A recent personal reversion back to OS9 showed how far the company... [24 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X
Comment In short: the learning hierarchy seems to have become age-compressed. The masters are now barely five years older than the apprentices and most likely not yet of university age. If we don't, how can we possibly make any contribution to the age in... [29 Oct 2007]
Online Investing Hacks: Balance Risk and Return for College Costs
White Paper However, stocks are risky for the short term, so one must move the savings into safer investments as the child gets closer to college age. With college tuition soaring, parents who want to pay for their kids' education need as much help as they can... [17 Oct 2007]
How to Take Control and Optimize Time
White Paper In the modern information age, people are bombarded with communications: e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, Short Message Service (SMS), paging, and more. If a person is not at the desks or logged in to the appropriate device handling the... [15 Sep 2007]
Consumer-Generated Media (CGM) 101: Word-of-Mouth in the Age of the Web-Fortified Consumer
White Paper This white paper explains about, CGM which refers to any number of online word-of-mouth vehicles, including but not limited to: consumer-to-consumer email, postings on public Internet discussion boards and forums, consumer ratings web sites or... [26 Jul 2007]
Developing Effective Multi-Channel Marketing Strategies
White Paper Multi-channel has roots in the age-old "media mix" idea, which essentially said that buyers were reached at different times in different ways, and that the most successful marketing programs contained an appropriate mix of media for the targeted... [12 Jul 2007]
IPTV for beginners
Comment Though we may be nearing what Rupert Murdoch calls "the golden age of media", there's a hurdle ahead. In fact, the last time I checked, we're all still beginners here, only a short way along from the black-and-white I Love Lucy days inception of... [04 Jun 2007]
Reach Aging Baby Boomers Online ... The Right Way
White Paper Succumbing to the creeping limitations of old age, baby boomers are beginning to struggle with the small type, short text links and tiny selection boxes that characterize all too many Web pages; they are finding the mouse painfully similar to a... [28 May 2007]
