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RSS chocolateIs tech a chocolate teapot when it comes to green cities?
News Technology has the potential to help build smarter, greener cities, but whether it will is another matter. That was the takeaway from a panel discussion on Wednesday at Fortune's Brainstorm: Tech conference in Pasadena, California. [23 Jul 2009]
Chocs away for Thorntons new e-auctions
News After moving more of its purchasing to online auctions, chocolate retailer Thorntons is to refresh its e-sourcing strategy. Thorntons, which previously used a pay-as-you-go managed online auction system from Wax Digital,... [27 Apr 2009]
Twitter: The CIO's new best friend - or chocolate teapot?
News Twitter may have doubled its user numbers last month but CIOs are split over whether or not the microblogging service makes a useful business tool. In the latest silicon.com CIO Jury, seven out of the 12 members said they are currently... [22 Apr 2009]
Torex tech treats Thorntons to quicker sales
Case Study Chocolate chain Thorntons has speeded up transactions and slashed customer queuing times by rolling out a new chip and PIN-friendly point of sale (POS) system. Nine hundred Torex Retail POSes have been installed across... [06 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.02.09
Round-Up User: "It's just I've been using my DVD drive as a cup holder and now I have hot chocolate inside my laptop. You may have noticed. As the snow came down, mobile usage went up. Monday between 7am and 8.30am saw a massive... [06 Feb 2009]
International Chocolate Confectioner Builds Brand Recognition and Increases Online Sales
White Paper Hershey Direct, the Hershey Foods division that is responsible for e-commerce sales to consumers and corporate customers, designed, developed, and launched its new online store within five months of project kickoff. [04 Dec 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.10.08
Round-Up Among the challenges professors are setting these days is a death match involving a bar of chocolate that has one square containing a deadly poison (and untangling this lot perhaps? Oxford hopefuls must face an adversary... [24 Oct 2008]
Inbox: Banking on tech, ID cards, Oxbridge answers
Comment If the number of chocolate squares are even then you want to go first. Last up, are chocolate death matches and bean counting enough to get you into Oxbridge these days? If the number of... [24 Oct 2008]
Are you an Oxbridge grade techie?
News Death by Chocolate: You are locked in a room with your worst enemy. On a table in the centre of the room is a bar of chocolate, divided into squares in the usual way. One square of the... [22 Oct 2008]
Mars - The CIO training ground
Comment A Mars a day may help you work, rest and play - as the old ad for the chocolate bar claimed - but it also makes for a top CIO. One of the themes to come out of the silicon.com CIO50 both this year and last year is the... [11 Jun 2008]
MSDN Webcast: 2007 Office System Interoperability With Visual Studio 2008 (Level 200)
White Paper Well, just like chocolate and peanut butter, Microsoft blends the two together to show the creamy richness of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). Like the 2007 Microsoft Office system? Like Microsoft Visual... [30 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up So it's very much chocolate teapot time then, thanks to a classic bit of civil service, red-tape poppycock. Time heals all wounds. And over at the head offices of HM Revenue & Customs, life is returning to normal. [02 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick starring Steve Martin is also a neat segue into the Round-Up's opening gambit, after a week gorging itself senseless on chocolate eggs and iPlayer... [28 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …
Comment With the Easter weekend now a distant memory and all the chocolate eggs polished off, silicon.com readers have been hitting their keyboards to sound off on the hot issues of the week. So, from the sinking ship of the... [27 Mar 2008]
Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook
News Confectionery company Mars recently launched a Facebook app allowing users to buy chocolate snacks for friends using a combination of PayPal and mobile phone vouchers. Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications... [14 Mar 2008]
