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Peter Cochrane's Blog: No risk, no progress
Comment A well-meaning head teacher decided children should wear safety goggles to play conkers. Government might just be on the right track to create a safe environment at work and play, and it may be the local implementers who are the cause for complaint. [03 Oct 2007]
Pizza sauce runs in our veins, says Domino's IT chief
Comment Maybe they want to use their mobile device to play some games or whatever. So Kimberlin had screens installed around each store kitchen that show the orders in play and the time they took to make, compared with average times across the portfolio. [24 Sep 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Social networks
Comment But I reckon they may well emerge as a new social force for those seeking justice and fair play across the board. Written at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK, and dispatched via a free wi-fi service One of the great features of the internet is the... [18 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... wi-fi CCTV, BBC iPlayer, skills shortage, robots...
Comment It makes perfect sense to target the most popular operating systems first, then play catch-up with the other 'major' OSs. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are... [13 Sep 2007]
Leader: How green is your (silicon) valley?
Leader How about encouraging homeworking more in the spring and autumn, when heating or air-conditioning bills don't come into play as much for households? A report by the Energy Saving Trust has questioned the 'greenness' of working from home (WFH). [05 Jul 2007]
Television 2.0 cometh
Comment We now have IP video encoders that can handle 36 MPEG-2 channels, full 'quadruple play' offerings (bundled telephone, TV, internet and wireless) from world-leading telco PCCW in Hong Kong (800,000 subscribers on their IPTV platform), and Tiscali... [04 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.06.07
Round-Up Therefore, this time around, perhaps Sugar threw all reasonable criteria out of the window and went for the one contestant who was guaranteed to follow him like a love-sick puppy for as long as Sugar was prepared to stroke him, throw him biscuits... [15 Jun 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Wary of wikis? Cynical about Second Life?
Comment Obviously I'm not suggesting you give the office junior a fat load of bandwidth and let them play all day but consider how these digital natives are going to change they way you structure your business. [14 Jun 2007]
How to be a top CIO
CIO Analysis With technology increasingly at the heart of most organisations the opportunity is there for CIOs to play a more strategic boardroom role. But what are the skills and experience needed to land that top seat and is it a help or a hindrance to have a... [06 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: How to serve two billion page impressions
Comment These are guys worth knowing and silicon.com is understandably an advocate of any successful, pure-play dot-com - whether it's a betting exchange or, dare we say, news service. Will Sturgeon, editor-at-large of silicon.com, is blogging from the... [05 Jun 2007]
The Varney Report: An ideal or a blueprint?
Comment This strategy signals the government's recognition that services have an increasingly important role to play in public sector delivery. Merely from the title of the report: Service transformation - a better service for citizens and businesses, a... [29 May 2007]
Leader: What can we learn from working at home?
Leader But if it proves the catalyst for a serious rethink on working from home and the role it must play in modern business then that will be a standout achievement.silicon.com journalists all entered into the spirit of things and worked from home today. [18 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: My home wi-fi network - in search of fun
Comment Seeing it gathering dust, come February, I borrowed it, mainly to play retro Mario Kart games. When it comes to IT at home, it's nearly all about work for me. My wife is self-employed, so I'm sort of her IT guy. [17 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: Media merger mania
Comment News Corp may yet be outflanked - though a business paper/website play from Murdoch aligned with a business news TV station are clearly assets he doesn't have right now - Microsoft-Yahoo! The unravelling this week of the merger between Daimler-Benz... [15 May 2007]
CIOs lack skills for growth
Comment Look around you: personal laptop computers, mobile phones, iPods, BlackBerrys and videogame consoles are visible manifestations of how people live, work and play. Organisations are increasingly waking up to the power and potential of technology as... [04 May 2007]
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