computers in comment and analysis
The Brampton Factor: Chinese whispers
Comment Unsurprisingly, China has made similar accusations against computers based in the US. For example, last month a senior Chinese official accused foreign agencies of causing massive damage by hacking into Chinese computers for political, military and... [25 Oct 2007]
Q&A: Graham Linehan, writer and director of The IT Crowd
Comment Well, I love my computers. With the second series of The IT Crowd done and dusted, silicon.com caught up with Linehan to find out more about the show and his experiences with techies… silicon.com: Why do you think IT is funny? [12 Oct 2007]
Geelen and Pauwels
AS Profile Pieter Geelen and Peter-Frans Pauwels started out by founding Palmtop, a company that developed applications for the first generation of handheld computers. They then moved on to in-car satellite navigation - or sat-nav, for anyone who has sat in a... [12 Oct 2007]
Luis von Ahn
AS Profile His latest project, reCaptcha, uses the same idea to help decipher words in digitised books that computers find hard to read. Described as a "real guy to watch" by one of the panel, Luis Von Ahn is one of the people to blame for those little boxes... [12 Oct 2007]
Open season
AS Analysis Stallman has spent considerable time over the past 12 months supporting local efforts in Cuba to bring open source to the country's government - with the Cuban government announcing that it is to migrate thousands of its computers to open-source... [12 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress
Comment Fast forward a decade or two at a time and: no trains, trucks, cars or planes, no telecoms, no space exploration, no computers or IT, no modern medicines, no idea about evolution, the cosmos or much else, and yet more millions would have died as a... [03 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.09.07
Round-Up Apple is a company which has long since touted that its computers are better than its rivals because the hardware and software are made by the same company and therefore better integrated. Supportive co-workers around the world have been warned... [28 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...
Comment The next generation of kids are growing up with PC skills inherently and will probably be better with computers than most "techies" by the age of 10! What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [27 Sep 2007]
Interview: Tesco CIO Colin Cobain
Comment Behind them you've got the back-of-store operations, which typically in a large hypermarket might have 15 to 20 handheld computers and several computers and printers for things like shelving labels. In this exclusive interview with silicon.com... [25 Sep 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Microsoft vs EU
Comment At the time, IBM was selling 70 per cent of all computers worldwide, and operating software was bundled with the hardware. Microsoft is a pioneer in pushing anti-competition laws to their limits, argues Martin Brampton. [18 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... this little piggybacker, don't talk trash, analyse this...
Comment Interestingly in securing a wifi setup I discovered that one of the computers thought to be on the same network was actually picking up a stronger broadband service for another nearby wifi service. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our... [30 Aug 2007]
Minority Report: A greener Apple
Comment For instance, in June this year, the latest MacBook Pro laptop was the first of Apple's computers to feature 'greener' LED backlight technology. A good result, says Seb Janacek, but how fair was the eco mud-slinging to the Mac maker? [23 Aug 2007]
Who pays your broadband bill?
Comment At one time computers and networks were found only in certain workplaces, were often selected and managed by specialists - the high priests of IT - and were certainly far in advance of anything even geeky hobbyists would have experienced at home. [21 Aug 2007]
The greening of IT: Why less is more
Comment The problem with the greening of IT is that - admittedly this is a generalisation - the underlying goal is to get you to buy more: new servers with more energy-efficient processors, intelligent sensors for data centre coolant systems, server... [13 Aug 2007]
Security - no longer just about hackers
Comment One panellist, for example, described the policies surrounding remote laptop use and how they were extending the policies to computers inside the corporate environment. If it's good enough for computers connecting via the internet, it's good enough... [31 Jul 2007]
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