driver in comment and analysis
Business travel tips - readers' picks
Comment You can simply hand these to the taxi driver so even your mispronunciation of the destination address can't prejudice your arrival. silicon.com staff and contributors have weighed in with their 30 suggestions on how to... [23 Jun 2006]
Don't let IT damage your M&A success
Comment Another technology-related value driver is outsourcing. Margaret Harvey from law firm Addleshaw Goddard offers some advice on how to make sure technology doesn't hurt your chances of M&A success. The impact of differing... [23 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 13
Comment To top things off the taxi driver decides to drive down the wrong side of the road at oncoming traffic. They're based in Shanghai so I tell the taxi driver (at least I thought I did) to go to the offices. [22 Jun 2006]
Radioactive: Today a jam, tomorrow the open road?
Comment Latency for instance cannot be allowed if a driver is relying on an impact warning before they take evasive manoeuvres. If car-to-car technology comes through, waiting in jams and skidding on ice patches could be a thing... [21 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 9
Comment Fortunately I have a friend in Shanghai who owns a bar - I call Kit and he puts me onto his friend Andy, a tour guide in the area, who directs the taxi driver to his neighbourhood. This is his warts-and-all diary, which... [18 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 8
Comment I stop asking questions when the taxi driver drops us in the middle of what looks like a run-down council estate. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of... [17 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 7
Comment Susan and the taxi driver are talking loudly - she begins to translate but he interrupts. The taxi driver is getting excited about something but I can't understand what. After the Olympics he's planning... [16 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 4
Comment The taxi driver eventually drops me where he thinks I should be. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis and... [13 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 2
Comment Mr Zhang, the CNET driver, and Susan take me to Badaling this morning to see the Great Wall of China. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most... [08 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.03.06
Round-Up The Round-Up feels genuine sympathy for any member of C&W staff who is concerned about facing up to 12 hellish months under someone who uses phrases like that.and who presumably considers himself "the bus driver". [03 Mar 2006]
Word For Word: Google Analyst Day
Comment That can be a significant revenue driver. 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... [03 Mar 2006]
3GSM Diary: Ballmer n Branson, O2 guerrillas and Craig David
Comment Yesterday morning saw a scooter driver pull up outside the hotel, rip down some O2 flyers from an advertising hoarding and begin to put up his own. You know a tech show has heated up when you leave a session having... [15 Feb 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Why poor customer service is all too common
Comment Worse, after the driver had gone, it became apparent that several items on the till receipt were missing. The reason so many of us have bad experiences with customer service has little to do with the fact so many... [11 Oct 2005]
The Vegas CIO: Tim Stanley, Harrah's Entertainment
Comment Like so many in this city, my taxi driver would most politely be described as 'a character'. It's 37°c outside and I'm in the back of taxi heading down Las Vegas Boulevard, travelling north, past the airport, past the... [11 Jul 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.06.05
Round-Up Gibbins is a taxi driver by trade which perhaps also goes some way to explaining his fondness for the old expletives. "Are you going to be in there all day? It seems the issue of toilet breaks is back on the agenda as... [10 Jun 2005]
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