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The Weekly Round-Up: 16.10.09
Round-Up While this might save some people from email-related blunders, the digitally accident prone among you should still be able to find plenty of ways of embarrassing yourselves with texts, instant messaging and tweets… [16 Oct 2009]
Google takes the 'oops' out of email
News Adding to its arsenal of features that can save you from yourself, Google is launching a Gmail Labs feature called "Undo Send", which lets users abort the sending of Gmail messages. Other user-preservation features already available... [20 Mar 2009]
Cineworld goes green with virtualisation
Case Study Digital Blunders UK cinema chain Cineworld has relaunched its website, saving money and reducing power consumption in the process. The company has been working with hosting company Carrenza, which is running the new... [15 Dec 2008]
Roasted laptops, fighting panthers and fishing accidents
News The top 10 data blunders of 2008, compiled by data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack, have seen people across the world falling victim to acts of great stupidity and misfortune. Roasted laptops, panthers savaging memory sticks... [04 Dec 2008]
EC calls for more cuts on the cost to roam
News Digital Blunders The European Commission is pushing for further cuts to roaming charges in Europe. The Commission on Tuesday proposed that charges for roaming text messages be slashed by 60 per cent by next summer. [24 Sep 2008]
SAP users air support gripes
News Digital Blunders The UK and Ireland SAP User Group has expressed dissatisfaction with the changes SAP has made to its software support programme. The German software giant announced on 16 July that it plans to move all... [25 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News Digital Blunders In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo! has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the internet company's technology. The service, which entered public beta... [10 Jul 2008]
EU law to end file-sharers time online?
News Digital Blunders A set of telecommunications laws has been given the green light by a European parliamentary committee, which includes amendments that some argue could lead to file-sharers being disconnected by their... [09 Jul 2008]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News Digital Blunders Nine out of 10 organisations that have adopted virtualisation technologies have done so to reduce data centre costs, according to research from IDC. Of those organisations surveyed, almost half said they... [08 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment Digital Blunders silicon.com is 10 this week. That's a grand old age for a publication launched at the height of the dot-com madness, says Julian Goldsmith. The 1998 launch party for silicon.com was held at the dinosaur... [07 Jul 2008]
Happy 10th birthday, silicon.com
News Digital Blunders Happy birthday, silicon.com - your favourite business and technology publication is 10 years old. Launched back on 6 July 1998 with a party at London's Natural History Museum - a dig at the print... [07 Jul 2008]
silicon.com Classics: The 10 craziest uses of RFID
News Digital Blunders The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive from the last decade is a look at the 10 best, worst and just plain crazy uses of radio frequency ID... [02 Jul 2008]
Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News The timeline below documents the series of blunders leading up to the data breach… Timeline of the HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data losses The loss of 25 million records from HMRC's Child Benefit Computer System was... [26 Jun 2008]
HMRC and MoD face action over data blunders
News Two government departments face enforcement action from the UK data protection watchdog for between them losing more than 25 million people's details. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is taking enforcement action against HM... [25 Jun 2008]
silicon.com Classics: The best of Google Earth
News Digital Blunders The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive from the last decade is a photo tour of the best of Google Earth - from burning oil fields, to topless... [22 Apr 2008]
