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Tech brands getting a sporting chance
Comment Such a deal is likely to be worth millions of dollars to the organisers as one source confirmed to silicon.com that golf, because of its advertising cachet, can command vast sums from sponsors. Mike Read, CEO of Pipex, told silicon.com his company... [24 Jul 2006]
Weekly Round-Up: 30.06.06
Round-Up Moving on, it sounds like the most incredibly mismatched underwater death-match but this week silicon.com published an article about a contest which pits Octopus against Oyster. The Round-Up will spare the blushes of the silicon.com team member who... [30 Jun 2006]
Behind the scenes at England's World Cup HQ
Comment With the England football team gearing up for its crucial second group match against Trinidad & Tobago - following the solid, if unspectacular, three points from the opener against Paraguay - there is one man key to preparations. [15 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.05.06
Round-Up Because, just as it became pretty clear that England would be starting the tournament without star player and potential match winner Wayne Rooney, it offered a 66 per cent discount to all customers on a range of laptops in the event the England... [05 May 2006]
CRM: Hosted vs packaged - which to choose?
Comment Hosted companies RightNow technologies and Salesforce.com enjoyed 97 per cent and 83 per cent growth in the same year, respectively, with Salesforce.com moving up to 12th place in AMR Research's CRM revenue rankings. [02 May 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.03.06
Round-Up Also speaking of the UK's seat of government, silicon.com caught up this week with an MP who put the boot into the technology which is available to our representatives in Westminster. He told silicon.com negative effects on inflation are also... [24 Mar 2006]
Leader: VoIP and SMEs - a good match?
Leader A recent survey shows that small businesses are nonplussed by VoIP - the vast majority have not deployed it and fail to see why they should. While vendors see this as a challenge to 'educate' a new market about the joys of IP telephony, many of... [17 Mar 2006]
The Yearly Round-Up: 22.12.05
Round-Up Unlucky-in-love-singleton Matthew Evans, whose lack of a girlfriend became front page news, brought a lawsuit against Match.com after he started getting interest from a woman on the site, just as he was about to unsubscribe. [22 Dec 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.11.05
Round-Up Speaking of finding more than you bargained for, subscribers to online dating service Match.com have been complaining that some of the dates they've been on thanks to the service aren't quite as they might seem. [25 Nov 2005]
Leader: Can your IT department turn into an iPod?
Leader At an event in San Francisco earlier this week, Salesforce.com's boisterous chief Marc Benioff unveiled his great new plan for the enterprise software market. Benioff says this will make Salesforce.com the iPod of the enterprise software market. [15 Sep 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.09.05
Round-Up The Round-Up is aware this is a gross generalisation likely to result in angry emails and the burning of Silicon Cottage on the Gower but anybody who's ever been to Cardiff on a match day could be forgiven for thinking that is a euphemism for an... [02 Sep 2005]
Leader: Shout about e-government
Leader A recent finger-in-the-air, quick poll by silicon.com found that of our readers - who tend to be tech-literate and well-educated - almost three-quarters (71 per cent) said they hadn't noticed new interaction from their local authority. [24 Aug 2005]
Security education: Too little too late
Comment In this case, the generosity of Dell, eBay, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Microsoft and Yell will match a £150,000 grant from the government. In October, one or even four years late, depending on how you view it, a www.getsafeonline.com website will be... [22 Aug 2005]
The McCue Interview: Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein CIO, JP Rangaswami
Comment It's the day after the nail-biting finish to the second Ashes test match at Edgbaston that saw England defeat the Aussies with just two runs to spare. Email your answers to editorial@silicon.com He kindly reveals one of the questions exclusively as... [10 Aug 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.07.05
Round-Up Worse still, this shouty man must have known there were press about - including journalists from a number of nationals as well as the two from silicon.com. There are all very nice but nothing to write home about," said Simon Cox as he raised his... [22 Jul 2005]
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