city centre in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up The latest figures - courtesy of BT - show that most city centre office workers are tied to their desks and see less than an hour a day of natural sunlight, with nearly a quarter seeing less than 20 minutes of the sun's rays during the working day. [20 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Flying high with the UK's best CIOs
Comment This year we decided to celebrate the UK's best IT leadership at a fitting location for the high achievers we had assembled - a reception 40 floors above the City of London at Tower 42, formerly the NatWest Tower. [19 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Global winners
Comment But this is no time for any city to be resting on its laurels. Despite talk of a skills drain it seems the rest of the world still sees London as a centre of excellence. I've spent the last month or so in conversation with other editors, academics... [05 Jun 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment But if beautiful surroundings are the only reason to work in a particular city then why are major companies like O2 or Mars located in Slough, in the UK's drab M4 corridor? Criteria such as education, language skills, availability of talent... [03 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.05.08
Round-Up The San Francisco Department of Public Health warned that several people had become ill after attending or working at conferences at the city's Moscone Convention Center between 30 April and Thursday. [16 May 2008]
Offshoring - not just about the costs
Comment ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore And for India to become the centre for all education for Steria, with the launch of the Steria Academy there, and with India as the emerging corporate... [18 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: What is city-wide wi-fi?
Comment What is city-wide wi-fi? But how does this differ from other city-wide wi-fi initiatives? You can see that in the pitch from The Cloud, which in April launched its pan-City of London offering. This wasn't the first offering from the Cloud - they've... [17 Jul 2007]
India diary, day 11: I heart Bangalore
Comment As soon as I leave the airport I can see that the tech industry has made its mark on this city. Then it's time to head off to Electronics City - the technology park on the edge of town. It takes about an hour to cover the 20km out to Electronic... [14 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 2: Emergency calls and rural life
Comment My day starts with a journey across to Hyderabad's ugly twin sister city of Secunderabad to visit the Byrraju Foundation, a charitable organisation working to improve the lives of rural Indians. I'm shown the school in the village of Kondlakoyya... [05 Mar 2007]
Unwired: The office of the future
Comment The BBC Media Centre in White City, London is an early example - it's an office populated by professional peers (in this case media workers) rather than co-workers. The office will become the centre for this collaboration, a flexible space to... [15 Nov 2006]
Why the Linux desktop dream is over
Comment But despite the many threats to ditch Windows, to date the German city of Munich remains one of the few high-profile organisations that has made the leap. This week research by the National Computing Centre (NCC) found only one Linux desktop for... [08 Nov 2006]
Editor's Blog: Some offshoring fallacies
Comment But don't think that is purely down to the City. At the end of a long day, two long-time silicon.com contributors, Dr Richard Sykes and Mark Kobayashi-Hillary (both silicon.com Agenda Setters judges this year), were at the centre of an offshoring... [06 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for wi-fi in Norwich
Comment So far a £1.1m budget has been allocated for the coverage of the city centre and a few outlying areas. Only one coffee shop out of 20 in the city centre seemed at odds with the claims of wi-fi nodes on multiple lampposts providing comprehensive... [30 Aug 2006]
Leader: Are Macs really more secure?
Leader In the past, John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, has likened virus writers and hackers to graffiti artists in the real world, and he likened Microsoft to the Tube train that goes through the centre of the city - everybody will see their work because... [06 Jul 2006]
Behind the scenes at England's World Cup HQ
Comment Energy issues at the media centre, which uses 30 air conditioning units, meant The FA had to take a power feed directly from the city's main grid using an armour-plated cable directly to the hotel. Dimmock is tasked with keeping FA staff remotely... [15 Jun 2006]
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