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The McCue Interview: Phil Pavitt, CIO, Transport for London
Comment Across the various IT teams and whopping £1bn annual tech budget at TfL there are about 500 direct employees (nearer 1,400 when you add in the outsourced pieces), supporting 14,000 desktop PCs, 14,000 handheld devices, 30-plus data centres and... [29 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment It was nearly impossible to keep two mobile and three desktop devices in sync. Written while flying from London to Rome and dispatched on arrival at my hotel via a 3G HSDPA data service. Some 20 years ago I was running a series of experiments... [22 Jul 2008]
My 15 minutes with Bill Gates
Comment So I raised my hand and said something cheeky like, "Bill, what is the killer app that's going to make this multimedia PC a must-have on every desktop? He is clearly on to something here and, who knows, in 20 years he may have figured out a way to... [11 Jul 2008]
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment Flake is responsible for "setting the technology vision and future direction of the MSN portal, web search, desktop search and commercial search efforts," according to Microsoft. It's not that Bill Gates has an inflated sense of his own importance. [24 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ The Naked CIO: Madness in the method ¦ Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop ¦ Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs ¦ Is SOA... [22 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…
Comment I think the Naked CIO is confusing open source with server and desktop OSs. First up this week, readers were engaging in debate over the pros and cons of outsourcing. Then we have silicon.com resident Naked CIO who has been ruffling some feathers... [08 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... ZX Spectrum nostalgia, Mac attack, tag a bag…
Comment My first Mac, a 533MHz single CPU, replaced a 1GHz Windows desktop. The topic that got readers turning to their keyboards this week was silicon.com's latest poll: What was your first home computer? Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for... [24 Apr 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment As the mobile phone continues on its evolutionary path away from humble communications unit to converged device and emerging platform, the companies best suited to take it forward may well be those with a track record in developing applications... [23 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08
Round-Up Meanwhile, your configuration management officer has fouled up again, your load balancing test has gone bad and the security patch for your entire desktop range has failed. The Round-Up has and it was rubbish, up until it received a brand new... [18 Apr 2008]
The ISO is right to back Microsoft's OOXML
Comment Beyond questions of fitness for purpose, there are bigger concerns about a standards body making decisions that could perpetuate an effective monopoly - in this case, Microsoft Office on the desktop. Cooler heads have wisely prevailed, argues Dale... [04 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment I was doing desktop and comms network support for SMEs and the tight so-and-so so's seemed to think that £70 per hour was far too expensive. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the... [20 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up Because the desktop market is maturing, the trend would have happened anyway, he said. Trustworthy computing. It's a nice concept. These days the phrase is commonly associated with Microsoft after its much trumpeted commitment to improve consumer... [22 Feb 2008]
Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam
Comment When IT applications decentralised onto the PC, there was a time when the office desktop was mostly autonomous and operated independently from the network. Addicts may take their CrackBerrys on holiday and even up to bed. [21 Feb 2008]
Minority Report: MacBook Air - slim chance of success?
Comment In July 2000 Apple launched the G4 Cube, a ground-breaking desktop computer that sat between the Power Mac and iMac lines. Inevitably, it failed because, aesthetics aside, it didn't deliver anything that its close desktop Mac relatives already... [06 Feb 2008]
What is the future for Lotus?
Comment Yes, Lotus announced a product roadmap that sees a vision of Notes as the desktop of the future. This week's Lotusphere marks a big shift for IBM's Lotus collaboration software arm. But can a move into corporate social networking and web 2.0 really... [24 Jan 2008]
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