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Round-Up The prospect of prosecuting customers and adopting the mantle of some kind of online law enforcement agency is not what your average ISP would welcome. Microsoft was also offering a range of romance-related playlists on its online store.
[15 Feb 2008]
Round-Up Ballmer: "Atkins, this deal lets us offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers and allow them to be better positioned to compete in the online market. Schmidt: "Some reports online suggest the whole...
[08 Feb 2008]
Comment Online trading platforms have established themselves during times of strong economic growth assisted by easy and even lax credit. So what impact will a downturn have on the technological future of these markets, asks TowerGroup's Bob McDowall.
[30 Jan 2008]
Comment Technology and legislation have often been uneasy bedfellows and this latest Scrabulous spat may well set some legal parameters which govern how brands, consumers and social networks interact online going forward.
[29 Jan 2008]
Comment The only means of online communication is wi-fi but this comes with a reduction in the amount of hardware, longer battery life, much lighter weight and a slimmer profile. Yet I no longer own a floppy disk or a PCMCIA card and I no longer go online...
[28 Jan 2008]
Comment As the Christmas sales figures proved, retailers looking for any significant growth this year will have to look online. With high street sales struggling to keep pace with inflation and online trade increasing by 54 per cent from 2006 to 2007...
[25 Jan 2008]
Comment It's all very well to use an infrastructure comprising Skype and Google Mail combined with Facebook when your company consists of a handful of workers interacting online. But how can major corporations tap the benefits of social networks without...
[24 Jan 2008]
Comment The software is installed on the desktop and updates regularly when the user is online. This application allowed salespeople to update their records and forecasts in places where internet access was unavailable or was too much hassle to arrange...
[23 Jan 2008]
Leader Even though the MP for South Luton Margaret Moran's Ten Minute Rule Bill on age verification for online purchases has gone through to a second reading in May, it is at best ill-thought-out and at worst, nothing more than a cynical ruse to whip up...
[22 Jan 2008]
Comment But about six months ago we saw a demonstration of the latest release of the applications underpinning the online service by the original vendor of the software. Smaller firms tend to shy away from hosted applications because of worries about the...
[16 Jan 2008]
Comment Email, social networks and the sheer wealth of data available online have changed everything. From now on when my silver surfer friends ask me what a wiki is or about photos online, file sharing and more, I'm just going to point them at this website.
[14 Jan 2008]
Comment Despite the broad reach of the internet, successful online traders need to focus tightly on individual customers. With web transactions taking a bigger share of overall sales for many companies, offering a personal, relevant and convenient online...
[09 Jan 2008]
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Resolutions for 2008 ¦ The best of 2007 ¦ Leader: Missing Xmas parcels highlight online fulfilment dangers ¦ 2008...
[03 Jan 2008]
Comment For example, this year over 95 per cent of Christmas presents were bought online but the time and money saved were then squandered on the need to scan in an awful lot of analogue pictures for the digital solution encapsulated in the presents.
[03 Jan 2008]
Leader Many online shoppers had the convenience of buying goods at home offset by having to queue at postal depots to recover the goods they bought. A straw poll of the silicon.com editorial team found one online shopper had a gift arrive six days after...
[02 Jan 2008]
Comment But why is online fraud on the rise and what are financial services firms doing about this and other kinds of financial scams? But losses from online fraud continue to rise. While overall card fraud is falling, instances of online fraud are...
[24 Dec 2007]
Comment A recent survey of UK businesses carried out by the Department of Trade and Industry reported that, of businesses surveyed, 30 per cent of those who use online transactions do not encrypt them. The issue of data encryption has been brought into...
[21 Dec 2007]
Round-Up This has resulted in online advertisers splurging out huge dollops of money trying to get us to buy their stuff. We British may be rubbish at almost all sports, possess terrible dental hygiene and labour under outrageously high taxes, but by God...
[14 Dec 2007]
Comment Year on year, the number of people choosing to do their Christmas shopping online is increasing, so the timing of this review is clearly no coincidence. Despite estimates that £14bn will be spent by consumers online this Christmas, recent research...
[14 Dec 2007]
Comment I have several online accounts and other protected services: What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.
[13 Dec 2007]
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