agenda setters
Skills slump eroding UK's top tech talent
News Agenda Setters 2007 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. The UK will lose its base of highly skilled technology workers unless training and education is overhauled, industry leaders have warned. [14 May 2008]
Sales staff: Worst IT offenders
News Agenda Setters 2007 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. Sales staff and home workers should be kept on a tight leash by IT managers to avoid damaging corporate systems. [11 Apr 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking the links below… Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Verwaayen made silicon.com's 2007 Agenda Setter list - ranked 16th - and is noted for championing initiatives such as BT's 21st... [08 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking the links below… Google, Yahoo! and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to... [26 Mar 2008]
SMEs not exploiting web potential
News Agenda Setters 2007 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. Small businesses in the UK are failing to fully exploit the global opportunities offered by the internet. [25 Mar 2008]
Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook
News Agenda Setters 2007 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications for social networking site Facebook to allow users to share and buy products with... [14 Mar 2008]
Slicethepie releases first fan-funded album
News Agenda Setters 2007 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. The first album to be solely financed by users of music website Slicethepie is released next Monday (10 March). [06 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet Reflecting the importance of this work, Highfield was voted number five in silicon.com's tech industry Agenda Setters list in 2007. Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service. [05 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking on the links below… Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian... [03 Mar 2008]
Facebook suffers from social networking slowdown
News Agenda Setters 2007 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. Facebook has suffered its first monthly drop in UK users for 17 months, falling by five per cent to 8.4 million unique users between... [22 Feb 2008]
Jargon-filled software licences baffle consumers
News Agenda Setters 2007 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. Consumers are being forced to accept software licence agreements full of confusing jargon that are unfairly biased in favour of the... [20 Feb 2008]
Music industry gets web 2.0 shake up as fans grab a slice
News Agenda Setters 2007 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. Music funding website Slicethepie is aiming to shake up the music industry by changing the way artists are financed and helping record... [18 Feb 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Agenda Setters 2007 - Top 20 Find out who made it into silicon.com's Agenda Setters top 20 by clicking on the links below… Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. [01 Feb 2008]
Microsoft pours $235.5m into school tech
News Agenda Setters 2007 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. Microsoft will invest $235.5m over the next five years in a programme providing technology resources and training for educational use. [23 Jan 2008]
BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits
News Agenda Setters 2007 Find out who made this year's Agenda Setters list of the top technology movers and shakers. More than 3.5 million BBC programmes have been watched using the BBC's online on-demand iPlayer TV service during the fortnight after... [15 Jan 2008]
