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Bumpy landing for Bangalore's airport dream
Comment While top executives can use the expensive helicopter ferry service launching soon, others are obliged to factor in a five-hour lead time before boarding even 30- to 50-minute short-haul flights to neighbouring tech cities such as Chennai and... [30 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up The latest figures - courtesy of BT - show that most city centre office workers are tied to their desks and see less than an hour a day of natural sunlight, with nearly a quarter seeing less than 20 minutes of the sun's rays during the working day. [20 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Offshore - or off their trolley?
Comment The idea of 24-hour programming efforts to improve delivery speed has plunged me back into that familiar debate of strong opinions and scanty evidence. Pressure is building up behind a move to managed services at the Naked CIO's company. [10 Mar 2008]
Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers
Comment Nick Carr, marketing manager at open source software firm Red Hat, points to the True TCO Calculator spreadsheet at the Uptime Institute, which includes multiple criteria affecting the ultimate kilowatt hour (kWh) count that will dictate energy... [21 Dec 2007]
Freecycle Diaries: Desperately seeking boxes
Comment I post my wanted message and in less than an hour I have two replies. Welcome to the second instalment of the Freecycle Diaries, in which Natasha Lomas puts the web giveaway service to the test - and shares her experiences, for better and for worse. [16 Apr 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Glastonbury and lessons in uptime
Comment For an hour and a half I saw nothing but error messages and heard nothing but engaged tones. Will Sturgeon is sure there's a better way. There are many things I like doing on a Sunday morning. Drinking coffee, reading the papers, watching the early... [02 Apr 2007]
India diary, day 9: An auto-rickshaw ride and a catwalk show
Comment And so there's a gym, basketball courts and space for cricket, as well as a 24-hour canteen. The ground is flying past at an alarming rate. The bus that has just gone past has spewed its exhaust straight into my face. [12 Mar 2007]
Fair Wi-fi: Are hotels really fleecing guests?
Comment Some hotels charge a £50 flat rate, others £5 per hour. Some charge an incredible £20 per hour while others offer it for free. Even if only 30 guests use the wi-fi at an average of £10 per hour, that's still £291 per day the hotel is pocketing. [05 Mar 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Losing my Virginity
Comment No explanation as to why not or why, when they already knew the luggage wasn't on board, they had let me stand around like a lost soul for the best part of an hour. Technology, used properly, could help. [26 Jun 2006]
Word For Word: Google Analyst Day
Comment Google hosted a four-hour meeting on Thursday with analysts at its Mountain View, California, headquarters. The event, its second annual Analyst Day, was in the spotlight because of comments made by the company's CFO earlier this week that resulted... [03 Mar 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The work/life balancing act
Comment However, this is not simply the personal phone call or email to friends for a chat or a bit of casual surfing but increasingly the need to conduct personal or domestic activities online or using the mobile phone, as retailers and domestic service... [19 Jan 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.12.05
Round-Up Responsible drinking is an issue which has very much been on the agenda this week not least because of the UK's move towards 24-hour licensing and the media's desperate attempts to trump up stories about this being the downfall of society. [02 Dec 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.07.05
Round-Up UK email filtering firm MessageLabs confirmed a near doubling of the average levels of email traffic it would have expected to see on a Thursday morning with an average 500,000 emails per hour over its network ramping up to one million per hour. [08 Jul 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.07.05
Round-Up The couple work 12 hour days and live 50km apart, so the only chance they get to spend time together are the stolen moments around the office. Sounds romantic, doesn't it? Until you find out that is actually Sun CEO Scott McNealy describing a year... [01 Jul 2005]
Olympics diary: Super Saturday and the wrap-up
Comment The time settings had changed on the results systems from the 24-hour to the 12-hour clock and this was affecting the results format. Claude Philipps, chief technology integrator for Olympics IT partner Atos Origin, is keeping a diary of his... [01 Sep 2004]
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