age in comment and analysis
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment If the answer is no, then I'm showing my age, as the fourth and greatest software Musketeer of them all, Bill Gates, has now left the stage. Bill Gates is just the most recent example of a big name leaving the world of tech. [17 Jul 2008]
10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone
Comment In an age of miniature laptops and mobile working in the unlikeliest of places we think this is a crying shame - and an opportunity missed. This is the age of user-generated content, you know. But that doesn't mean there aren't a few things for... [14 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Enemies of the state
Comment After all, controls and security are very real concerns of the modern technology age and cannot be dismissed lightly. The bureaucratic bog created by politicians is only part of the problem for IT in this country. [14 Jul 2008]
My 15 minutes with Bill Gates
Comment We're talking of the stone age of PC computing. In the early days of PC computing Joshua Greenbaum crossed swords with Bill Gates. Greenbaum thought he had the best of the encounter. Nothing could have been further from the truth. [11 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment That's a grand old age for a publication launched at the height of the dot-com madness, says Julian Goldsmith. silicon.com is 10 this week. The 1998 launch party for silicon.com was held at the dinosaur hall of the Natural History Museum in west... [07 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment Give them a little incentive and you might create a craze with the potential to create vastly more games developers than the Speccy age ever generated. The games industry is the latest to suffer the dreaded skills gap - but who's to blame? [27 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment The examples seem endless: Y2K, the coming ice age, various pandemics, and so on. Some years ago I was struck by the amount of time people spent at my local supermarket trying to decide which pack of bacon to buy. [28 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment Karen is right about the age issue but it's still about gender and other forms of stereotypes. The so-called skills slump in the UK has attracted a lot of attention this week, with many readers blaming the education system and outsourcing for the... [22 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…
Comment Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the winner, while some were a little miffed their favourite didn't feature on the poll… And from old computers to the latest in high-tech cool, the age-old debate - Mac vs PC - got readers riled... [24 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment For some younger members of the team we had to explain that in the golden age of home computers the idea was you could actually use these - at the time very expensive - pieces of hardware to create your own programs. [22 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment The Bebo-obsessed young are naturally profligate with their personal information because at the age of 16 or less, one has little or nothing of real worth to risk in the broader world that exists outside a small group of friends. [08 Apr 2008]
Retail leaders will open up in tough times
Comment He recalled less-than-complementary blogs from customers slating his offers and admits that retailers can no longer control the flow of communication about their brands in the web 2.0 age. An icy wind is blowing through the high street. [13 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
Comment This experience will prove valuable as he brings the building society into the web 2.0 age. Jack Cutts is a name to conjure with. Reminiscent of a buccaneer perhaps? Possibly one of the legendary accounting pirates from Monty Python's Crimson... [11 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe
Comment It disturbs me that I might consider excluding certain people from consideration because of sex, race or age. With spring and recession in the air, a CEO's fancy turns to pruning costs - and for the Naked CIO's department that means job cuts. [03 Mar 2008]
The Naked CIO: Innovation - same old story
Comment To achieve my desired results I have to metamorphose into some new-age therapist and start talking about utopia. Moronic end users are putting paid to any hope of introducing innovation at Naked CIO's new company. [18 Feb 2008]
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