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The Weekly Round-Up: 17.08.07
Round-Up As if we didn't already know, email is a double-edged sword of productivity. On the one hand it allows us to keep in touch with friends and colleagues all over the world with a single mouse-click and on the other hand it allows us to keep in touch... [17 Aug 2007]
It's not easy being green
Comment Rationalising hardware and consolidating data centres are definitely ways of lowering power utilisation, to a small extent, but the messages have been played many times over with a different slant - whether for the rising cost of real estate, the... [25 Jul 2007]
Freecycle Diaries: Serendipity at last
Comment Much better, in my opinion, is to opt out of emails altogether and instead just check your group's messages as and when. In the final instalment of the Freecycle Diaries, Natasha Lomas clears a ragbag assortment of items from her flat - and pairs... [08 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: Live from InfoSec
Comment Warning messages are not much use to anybody. silicon.com editor-at-large Will Sturgeon is blogging from the InfoSecurity show at London Olympia. The InfoSec show has come around again so quickly. I last attended in 2005 and yet it still seems no... [24 Apr 2007]
Freecycle Diaries: Want my tatty sofa?
Comment Once approved as a member, you can start posting messages offering or asking for items, and reading what others have posted. Welcome to the Freecycle Diaries, in which Natasha Lomas puts the web giveaway service to the test - and shares her... [10 Apr 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Glastonbury and lessons in uptime
Comment Why in this day and age does buying tickets online mean staring at error messages on overloaded websites? For an hour and a half I saw nothing but error messages and heard nothing but engaged tones. However, having come so close to missing out I... [02 Apr 2007]
Is Skype secure enough for businesses?
Comment If unsolicited voice communications (or recorded messages) become a problem in their volume and potentially illicit enticements, content filters will be of little use as they will not be able to break the encryption. [02 Apr 2007]
Stop communications overload before it starts
Comment In addition to voice calls, mobile phones provide the alert of incoming text messages, for some mobile instant messaging services and, for an increasing number, mobile access to email. This is particularly apparent with communications, where with... [26 Mar 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Mobile advertising at work?
Comment Virgin Mobile in the US has introduced one of the more interesting examples of this with its Sugar Mama service, where users are offered free voice minutes or texts in return for accepting advertising messages or doing market research surveys for... [27 Feb 2007]
Mobile workforces - how to keep them productive
Comment The problem is often one of time management, which has been exacerbated by the speed of the technology, making even trivial email, instant messages or new alerts appear urgent as they beep onto the screen. [19 Feb 2007]
Indian offshoring - the new worry
Comment Restaurants were advertising candle-lit deals for couples, phone companies were encouraging text messages of devotion and shops everywhere had succumbed to selling kitsch tat at twice the usual price. [14 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.01.07
Round-Up Interestingly New York has recently started enabling callers to its 911 emergency lines to send MMS messages in the shape of video and pictures. Buckle your seatbelts! The charged issue of drivers using their mobile phones has been making headlines... [26 Jan 2007]
Leader: Let's make everyone tech-literate
Leader Despite the furious race to add more functions to mobile phones, two-thirds of us only use four features on our mobile phone: calls, text messages, alarm clock and camera. We're a nation suffering from technology overload, unable to control the... [25 Jan 2007]
Leader: Fear sells?
Leader For if we as journalists are growing weary of the 'fear message' you can bet the people buying IT - who are perhaps even more inundated with vendor marketing messages than us - are becoming immune to such tactics. [23 Jan 2007]
Leader: iPhone for the enterprise
Leader One is the visual voicemail idea - where users can skip to vital messages through the UI without having to listen to all the others first. The long-awaited, much discussed iPhone has finally launched to the cooing of Mac fans and, perhaps, the... [10 Jan 2007]
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