networking in comment and analysis
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Wednesday
Comment executive VP, Marco Boerries, who shows off a new product called OneConnect - due to launch this spring - which allows users to aggregate all their social networking comms in one place. Yep, CIOs are going to have to get down with the kids because... [14 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Sunday
Comment But of course MWC is not just a showground for newbies with their weird and wonderful wares (and as many instantly forgettable names starting with 'mobi' you can think of) - the event is a must-attend magnet for mobile royalty - from the Arun... [10 Feb 2008]
Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble
Comment Facebook's Scrabulous application has sparked a row between the social networking site and the owners of the Scrabble brand. Hard as it's been to escape the growing popularity of Facebook, news that the rights owners of Scrabble, Hasbro and Mattel... [29 Jan 2008]
What is the future for Lotus?
Comment Facebook for networking, Flickr for image sharing, YouTube for video sharing, and a whole raft of various instant messaging and VoIP platforms. But can a move into corporate social networking and web 2.0 really pay off, asks Mark Kobayashi-Hillary... [24 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08
Round-Up By and large, silicon.com’s CIO Jury is less than impressed with Facebook's potential for corporate networking. The uber-social networking phenomenon - Facebook, not the CIO Jury - is being snubbed by professional executives because of the... [18 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07
Round-Up Gartner will have no truck with this sort of thing - social networking, not huge, fearsome bears. With Facebook pledging this week to license its developer platform to other organisations, creating your own social networking service will be easy to... [14 Dec 2007]
How to baseline power consumption
Comment Let's say I have a floor of office space, with 15 individual PCs and some personal printers, some networking devices and so on, and I want to see the energy usage across all that floor plan. But how easy is it to come up with a baseline and why... [14 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Net education
Comment The net community and social networking are probably bigger than any of us can guess. Written at London Heathrow and dispatched from a free wi-fi service at London's Liverpool Street Station It seems ironic that our time of greatest technological... [06 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Changing tech values
Comment What about email and social networking? Written at London Heathrow airport and dispatched to silicon.com from a hotel in Nice, France, via a free wi-fi service offering serious bandwidth Not so long ago all we had was the telephone, radio and TV. [22 Nov 2007]
Minority Report: Apple's blues
Comment For an operating system that had mocked Windows PCs by representing them as monitors displaying the BSOD in its networking set-up, this was an unpleasant irony. Instead, the OS' 'blue screen of death' has left Apple with damage to its image and... [05 Nov 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Generation X
Comment They start with computer games, problem solving and strategic thinking reinforced by social networking and sharing on a scale never witnessed before. Written in a Florida hotel and dispatched via a free but shaky wi-fi service [29 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.10.07
Round-Up The announcement follows just a few weeks after Ballmer warned Facebook and other youth-oriented social networking services could be seen as a "fad". The deal values the social networking service at a whopping $15bn. [26 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.10.07
Round-Up Meanwhile, this year's vote also saw social networking and blogging make a real impression with Rob Pardo of World of Warcraft, Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, and Cory Doctorow, editor of BoingBoing, all staking a claim to a top 50 spot. [19 Oct 2007]
Where's the real web 2.0?
Comment We can go further, sharing experiences, images and videos with everyone, or just our friends via social networking sites. Wikis and social networking sites create an element of more parallel interactivity but most of the interaction is delivered by... [18 Oct 2007]
Leader: Who's setting tech's agenda this year?
Leader But, with Zuckerberg, has a massive tidal wave of social networking, with Facebook riding it, led to a novelty winner? Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away with this year's top Agenda Setter accolade, according to the... [15 Oct 2007]
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