charity in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.01.05
Round-Up The commitment Gates has made to charity far exceeds any kind of tax write-off. With these words Bill Gates this week announced his intention to donate $750m to charity. There are still a lot of people out there who never donate that kind of... [28 Jan 2005]
Will's Web Watch: 'Kids are gambling... quick, blame the web!'
Comment The web has become liable for many problems with 'the kids these days' if you believe the likes of children's charity NCH - an outspoken critic of the internet's corrupting influences. When I was perhaps 16, or maybe 17, I remember the bookie... [27 Jul 2004]
India diary: Day five - Bangalore's contradictions
Comment I forgo a tempting day by the pool in almost 40 degree heat to see the flip side of the high-tech miracle in India by visiting a friend's charity project in a slum village on the outskirts of the centre of the city. [04 Jun 2004]
Leader: Benefits cuts? It's just tough luck
Leader Microsoft announced this week that it would be curbing employee benefits in an effort to save costs. The changes will include cutting medical care allowances and reducing a discount on stock options. Some have found this news hard to swallow... [21 May 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Give us your money
Comment One marathon runner - my housemate Mark in fact (who I've still not sponsored - but will) has been using Bmycharity, which enables you to customise the page according to which charity you are supporting. [15 Apr 2004]
Leader: Does Gates' gong equal an endorsement of Microsoft practices?
Leader A government statement mentioned Gates' charity work as one reason he landed the gong but there has been no statement to the effect of it being his philanthropy in isolation. Bill Gates has today been awarded an honorary knighthood. [26 Jan 2004]
Leader: Web wrongly blamed for child-sex offence explosion
Leader Children's charity NCH has today blamed the internet for a 1500 per cent increase in child-porn related offences. And that's all the evidence the charity felt it needed to start whipping up a storm of anti-internet propaganda, which was doubtless... [12 Jan 2004]
Will's Web Watch: 'Charity' sites raise user concerns
Comment But despite its name CharityUSA is not a registered charity, it is a for-profit organisation, owned by a company called Homeline Publications, which gives "a percentage" of its profits to charity. What's to stop anybody in the business of selling... [07 Jan 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Auctions - bidding farewell to common sense
Comment Boxes full of assorted tat and dusty paraphernalia which once were destined for the dump, or some unlucky charity shop, now end up online. It used to be the case that people threw away their rubbish. Now they just auction it on eBay. [13 Jun 2003]
Kat Slater and the man from Microsoft
Comment The town kicked off its festive celebrations this week, and invited a pukka, A-list celeb to flick the switch of the Microsoft-sponsored illuminations and to launch a charity appeal - Jessie Wallace, aka Kat Slater from EastEnders. [29 Nov 2002]
Is it time to stop the broadband whinging?
Comment "Our obligation is to shareholders. We are not some kind of national institution that has an obligation to bring technology to the UK. We are a for-profit organisation. So said BT CEO Ben Verwaayen this morning in an interview with key online... [10 Sep 2002]
Beethoven coming out of your PC? - don't panic
Comment IT Relief - the industry charity dedicated to fundraising for the benefit of children - is organising a trek down the Yangtze River in November this year. The charity is looking for plucky volunteers to join the trek, which gives those privileged... [19 Apr 2002]
Technology is useful: Official!
Comment The first three Gingers are up for auction on Amazon.com as part of a charity fund-raising effort. First there was the pub-detecting watch (http://www.silicon.com/a51470 ); now computers are being used to work out if roadmaps can be folded correctly. [21 Feb 2002]
Another day, another US patent
Comment That's a different sector altogether, that's charity. Network Associates patent win might just be one small step for an anti-virus software vendor, but it is one giant leap for ASPs. The patent, awarded by the US patent office, effectively... [07 Aug 2001]
Big Brother: It was IT wot won it
Comment It must be said at this point that 5p from each call does go to charity. Amid the clouds of doom being generated by miserable company results at the moment, we might be forgiven for missing actual examples of technology radically changing business... [27 Jul 2001]
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