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The Weekly Round-Up: 09.11.07
Round-Up Still, it's one of the few things that we're still world class at. So, after much waiting, gnashing of teeth and an absurd amount of press attention the iPhone finally makes its UK debut today. Hooray. [09 Nov 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How I boosted my mobile signal
Comment However, I have just moved home and office to a new location that is in the zero to one bar (some of the time) class! Of course the human race has been overcoming this class of problem for thousands of years, and in the last 100 the use of passive... [18 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: Tech improves... but we don't?
Comment Many people expect - to generalise massively - a mix of economy, business and first class, to use the generic terms, when they get to an airline's counters. Forget that Virgin doesn't even employ that division, having its Premium Economy and Upper... [28 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.06.07
Round-Up Picking up the largely uncomplicated format of the game, the Round-Up quickly worked out, in about week six, that the impressive Irish battleaxe, Kristina, would march to success over the trampled bodies of the obligatory upper class twits, call... [15 Jun 2007]
Lesley Hume
CIO Profile At the company's headquarters subsidised treatments from a therapist and a weekly Pilates class are also available to staff. Zimbabwe-born Lesley Hume has been group IS director at Atkins since 2002 and leads a team of 300 developing the... [06 Jun 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Let the train take the strain
Comment What's more, travelling First Class on GNER I get the wi-fi access free of charge, on a ticket which still costs less than a flight (£56 single, £120 return). In standard class GNER's wi-fi would cost me £9.95 for access during my entire journey... [04 Jun 2007]
Is Skype secure enough for businesses?
Comment Lawrence Orans, a research director at Gartner who wrote a research note on Skype security, says: "While Skype's 3.0 release clearly offers some enterprise-class features, an underlying issue still remains: Skype uses a proprietary signalling... [02 Apr 2007]
From CIO to consultant: The first month
Comment Taxi to the airport, quick check-in, breakfast in the lounge, business class seats to New York, car to the 5 star hotel? Luckily my brother is a pilot with Virgin so he got me a cheap flight from Heathrow to JFK otherwise it would have been an... [20 Mar 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 1.12.06
Round-Up Well a classics teacher from the stuffy Stowe school in Buckinghamshire felt a bit poorly recently and the upper-class finger of blame has been pointed at the school's wi-fi network, possibly to shouts of "Well I was feeling a bally sight better... [01 Dec 2006]
Oracle - how to make friends and influence people
Comment During the company's most recent profits call, Ellison said: "We're trying to be best in class - open and hot-pluggable with competing components. Oracle may still be digesting a raft of big-name acquisitions - from PeopleSoft to Siebel - but... [25 Oct 2006]
Leader: Videoconferencing stepping up a gear
Leader Fortunately, this particular class of product lives up to the hype - even with a hefty price tag. This publication writes 'class of product' rather than talking about TelePresence in isolation because it will inevitably always be compared with HP's... [24 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport security frustrations
Comment So far I have been lucky in that my checked baggage has not gone astray and at my distant destination the unloading has been well-ordered with first class and business travellers' luggage arriving first, which is in complete contrast to the... [25 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's education in transition
Comment But already in the rising middle class, there is a growing tendency to point students away from the hard science subjects and toward the support industries. Class sizes are very large and the system appears rigid and inflexible. [19 Jul 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China, 23 years on
Comment The highways are big, fast and efficient, the airports on a truly international scale, and the telecoms installations.well I can only assume to be first class also - it works well. Written at a Shanghai coffee shop and despatched via the free wi-fi [17 Jul 2006]
Breaking China: ChinesePod takes on language learning
Comment Horkoff: We realised last year that language training is extremely inconvenient - some people here have to travel across town in China for three nights a week to attend a class. If you want a nice middle-class life, Canada's good. [11 Jul 2006]
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