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Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…
Comment Why would they spend time and effort on building a custom upgrade process for beta testers who know what they are getting in to when they installed the first release? What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [17 Jan 2008]
Will's Web Watch: Online break-ups are hard to do
Comment In the meantime the company had 40 months loyal custom from me - worth just shy of £600. Ever have trouble unsubscribing from an online service? Ecommerce sites may believe this is a good way to hold on to customers but, says Will Sturgeon, that... [18 Dec 2006]
Leader: Hotel wi-fi must be free
Leader Of course it's because they want the repeat custom of their impressed and cosseted guests and there are fewer customers more in demand than the regular business traveller with his or her corporate Amex and a disinclination to skimp on hotel bills. [31 Oct 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 4
Comment I feel a bit bad using English names for these girls but it's a common custom and they say they quite like it. Jennifer finishes playing and because I'm the oldest person in the room, it's a custom for me to pay for the meal. [13 Jun 2006]
Opinion: India sets its sights on Europe
Comment Raging mobs were in the process of torching gift shops that had the nerve to sell Valentine's cards - in protest at a 'western' custom being adopted in India. Market predictions of $200bn, a shift in focus from US to Europe and more. [24 Feb 2006]
Leader: BT's fluid core
Leader And being seen to be a leader, BT will tell you itself, is no bad thing in terms of its image and winning custom - long before 21CN technology kicks in fully. The big contract win story of the day - actually a story about contract wins, plural - is... [28 Apr 2005]
Devil's Advocate: The e-auction game
Comment This model can suggest the manufacturer is doing the buyer a favour by custom building. A lot has been made of the public sector making big savings on procurement by purchasing items such as PCs through electronic auctions. [26 Apr 2005]
Leader: Can Windows to open source moves still shock?
Leader But saying Microsoft will still scrap and fight, win some new custom alongside that which it loses in traditional markets, and indeed probably still do pretty well, thank you very much, should also hardly be surprising. [24 Mar 2005]
Leader: Fall guy Ebbers
Leader Sure, they captured a lot of custom, bought plenty of other players. His wife cried in court but few others will be sad to see ex-WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers go to prison. And it very much looks like that's where he'll spend most if not all of the... [16 Mar 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.08.04
Round-Up It transpires that some organisations may find installing the service pack could play havoc with their custom-built software and standard corporate applications as their systems are reconfigured by XP SP2. [13 Aug 2004]
Leader: Get to know your ISP
Leader Free-speech activists would complain about it but, for the most, part providers wouldn't care as long as they didn't lose too large a chunk of custom. BT announced earlier this week that it is trying out a new technology that blocks all sites with... [09 Jun 2004]
Analysis: Can the iPod survive?
Comment AOL has links to Apple's music store, while HP will sell a custom blue-hued version of the iPod and include iTunes on its PCs. Apple Computer's apparent cold shoulder to RealNetworks this week has once again put the company's "go it alone" strategy... [16 Apr 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: From mainframes to grids and virtualisation...
Comment Both solutions are valid: one of the most attractive elements of such appliances is that they are based on ASICs - application-specific integrated circuits, custom silicon that has been optimised for one purpose alone. [13 Feb 2004]
Has push-to-talk got what businesses need?
Comment Jeremy Green, wireless principal analyst at Ovum, points out that these operators have won custom with PTT but notes: "It's the bundling.that makes it more attractive. New revenues from voice? That's the prize mobile operators are hoping push-to... [22 Jan 2004]
Through the fog... SAP for SMEs
Comment All I needed was to run off a couple of custom reports, which I figured couldn’t be that hard using the market leading small business accounting package. So should we take its small business push seriously? [18 Dec 2003]
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