crash in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.07.08
Round-Up CRASH! Sat-nav devices are either the saviour of the modern driver or the new bane of our roads. It's worth pondering but don’t dwell on it if you happen to be dawdling at a T-junction. Too late. The innocent sat-nav device is being blamed for... [25 Jul 2008]
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Such systems could be the difference between a housing market slowdown and a crash. With all this doom and gloom, a housing market slump seems inevitable and a crash even possible. Borrowers have moved from a mortgage feast to a famine so bad that... [03 Jul 2008]
Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam
Comment The answer lies not in faults with the core technology or - save the odd system-wide crash - in the implementation. But there's nothing wrong with the core technology, says Rob Bamforth - at least nothing a touch of mobile netiquette won't put right. [21 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Tax crashing out [07 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07
Round-Up After all, would you want to get in a crash and call the Canadian version of the AA or RAC from the side of the road? We British may be rubbish at almost all sports, possess terrible dental hygiene and labour under outrageously high taxes, but by... [14 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is web 2.0 doomed to fail?
Comment The many reasons cited for the dot-com crash include greed, stupidity, insane optimism and an almost religious belief in a change model that was clearly unworkable. Written in a hotel just outside Cadiz and dispatched to silicon.com via a low cost... [23 Apr 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.03.07
Round-Up This year the charity hopes to crash through the £300m mark in terms of total funds raised, which is a staggering achievement. When the Round-Up finally curls up its toes and heads to the great press party in the sky, it would like to think it... [16 Mar 2007]
Leader: Why cash will be weighing us down for years
Leader After all, nobody's ever managed to crash a £20 note. The cashless society is a bit like the paperless office. It's always about five years away. This time it's the turn of Visa Europe's chief executive to predict cash will be extinct by 2012. [12 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 7: Mobiles in Mumbai
Comment I pass a roadside stand which is selling motorcycle crash helmets. Saturday 10 February - Mumbai Should you ever find yourself driving in downtown Mumbai, here's how to make a right-hand turn. Wait until there is a gap in the traffic (say, about... [10 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 2: Emergency calls and rural life
Comment There's a crash, with two motorcyclists hurt. Monday 5 February - Hyderabad Then a snake-bite victim, and then an attempted suicide, before an accident in a railway yard. Just another Monday afternoon for the Hyderabad emergency services. [05 Mar 2007]
Q&A: Microsoft UK head of innovation Jim Lawn
Comment As a result of the dot-com crash there has been a decline in optimism in the UK since the early 00s and that means we've seen a decline in computer science enrolments. Microsoft UK's head of innovation, Jim Lawn, is heading up a strategy to keep... [01 Mar 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Follow me on my travels
Comment Now we're in these rural communities the sight of 16 Brits on bikes - complete with crash helmets, sunglasses and decked out in cycling gear - coming through tiny villages and settlements on mountain bikes is certainly causing something of a stir. [08 Feb 2007]
Leader: Could IT suffer a Carr crash?
Leader Nicholas Carr has thrown fresh salt into the wounds of an IT industry that appears to still be smarting from his 2003 critical essay entitled 'IT doesn't matter', which appeared in the Harvard Business Review. [05 Oct 2006]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: The worst ever 419 scam emails
Comment HELLO.I'M TREVOR", he starts, and then goes on to tell of the millions left in the bank by a women killed in a car crash. They sit in grimy internet cafés around the globe, biting their nails, not daring to touch the keyboard, all inspiration gone. [27 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A crash-free life?
Comment And I just realised that I have now actually completed tens of such OS and app upgrades over the past two years without a single system crash. Yep, not a single crash for more than two years. Written during a quiet and peaceful period in my office... [20 Apr 2006]
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