balance in comment and analysis
The Brampton Factor: Analysts fail on open source
Comment But analysts have not always kept the balance, and services such as free conferences have been provided on the back of payments from vendors. For open source software to achieve its full potential, people's perceptions must change. [18 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Poisoned BlackBerrys
Comment As a self-confessed BlackBerry obsessive, I cannot claim to have found the balance my friends and family deserve. But the trouble is one day the addicts might just fight back, says the Naked CIO. Although he's meant to be on holiday, Gordon Brown... [28 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Serious games
Comment Another challenge is finding the right balance between providing enough control and security and the flexibility for the events to work. Just 46 days remain until the start of the Beijing Olympics. So how will the systems fare? [23 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up Peeking out from under his duvet to speak to assembled reporters he added: "Not only does it reduce the amount of commuting people have to do, enhancing their work/life balance, but many are actually more productive. [16 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season
Comment But even if on balance advertisers and consumers can reap the benefits, the real victim here is probably trademark law itself. Who is the real loser, asks lawyer Sian Croxon - the trademark holder, the consumer or the law itself? [30 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment The industry is desperately hoping that artists don't realise they no longer need the record companies, and that the balance of power has changed so that the artists can get fair remuneration for their work, and not have terrifyingly one-sided... [17 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up The government has finally deigned to listen to the public uproar, having first checked the balance sheet and looked at the recent opinion polls ahead of a looming general election - you decide which. [07 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.02.08
Round-Up Schmidt shifts his balance and is instantly engulfed by his bean bag. Once again, after one too many cinnamon cappuccinos, the Round-Up is transported behind the scenes of this week's momentous events in Redmond and Mountain View, California to see... [08 Feb 2008]
Online age verification Bill is cynical manipulation
Leader Retailers have to balance quick, easy customer service for online shoppers with making sure consumers are who they say they are. Even though the MP for South Luton Margaret Moran's Ten Minute Rule Bill on age verification for online purchases has... [22 Jan 2008]
What price compliance?
Comment Companies are wilting under the weight of increasingly onerous government and industry-specific regulations. But does compliance just add cost? Quocirca's Fran Howarth argues that rules and laws can provide companies with a business advantage if... [07 Jan 2008]
New Year's deliberations
Comment Pretty much the same as 2007 - striving to find the optimum balance between revenue, costs and happy customers. Balance' might in fact provide the clue to an appropriate theme for this year. Our research in several areas this year suggests I might... [03 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Resolutions for 2008
Comment Yet somehow we have to get that balance right - the more capable need time and help too. Written on the M4 motorway in England as I was driven from Taunton to Ipswich. Dispatched via a commercial wi-fi service from a roadside café [03 Jan 2008]
Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple
Comment The balance of power has shifted. Few would dispute that Apple has had a remarkable year. But Seb Janacek goes further. He predicts that in 10 years people will look back at 2007 as a seminal year in the company's history. [21 Dec 2007]
How to build an IT department
Comment Gender balance is a big issue for me. Andy McCue talked to him, at silicon.com's CIO Forum in London, about moulding an IT team. Andy McCue: You were brought in from outside to head up the IT department at Unilever. [17 Oct 2007]
The rise and rise of the Asian tech empire
AS Analysis The shift in the balance of tech power from West to East identified in last year's Agenda Setters rankings continues in 2007. Tony Hallett scans the Top 50 for the Asian continent's biggest influencers. [12 Oct 2007]
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