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Tech Futures: The talkification of the web

Comment No installation, no download required. Now it's the turn of telecoms, argues Howard Greenfield. The internet is set to get louder with the talkification of the web. By adding telephone functionality to HTML pages, innovative software developers are...

Tags: internet, comms, voice

[01 May 2008]

FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

Comment The social websites are the big target now - MySpace, Facebook.People are less careful and more likely to click on a link or download something. Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.08

Round-Up Even with this fob-off, there are to date hundreds of apps available for download from the Apple website. It's difficult to know what to make of AOL these days. The 1990s internet fireball responsible for millions of annoying CDs tucked inside...

Tags: web 2.0, iphone, airport, data breach

[14 Mar 2008]

Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation

Comment The next generation of usage and users are going to download videos, stream soaps and so on and it's not speed that matters. Mary Turner heads up the operations of ISP Tiscali UK, occupying the CEO's chair since September 2003.

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, tiscali, talking

[21 Feb 2008]

Web 2.0 threat looms

Comment This is not just a theoretical threat, it has already been used to compromise Gmail to fraudulently download contact lists. Many website owners are simply unaware they are hosting drive-by malware that can infect users who surf their site or...

Tags: malware, social networking, security, web 2.0

[26 Nov 2007]

Editor's Blog: Missing data, missing brains

Comment Indeed it would have been a wise move to architect the system so such a download was impossible unless authorised by a senior official. And some encryption wouldn't have gone amiss, either, if they really needed to download it to a CD.

Tags: hmrc, id cards, data, download

[21 Nov 2007]

Editor's Blog: Goodbye silicon.com - and thanks

Comment If I look back at some of our progress in the recent past I'd single out: the rebuilding of the silicon.com editorial team, to the extent that it has won several awards over the past few years.a close focus on core readers, coming up with formats...

Tags: cnet networks, awards, staff, cio

[08 Nov 2007]

Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit

Comment We do believe the next suite of Adobe Air products will enable us to offer a download solution for Macs and we believe that would be possible at some point during 2008. But you have said the BBC is still unable to commit to developing a download...

Tags: windows xp, bbc, iplayer, audience

[30 Oct 2007]

Leader: Why the BBC must do more with iPlayer

Leader The BBC is in the process of developing a video streaming version of iPlayer, its online on-demand TV service, for both Windows XP and non-XP platforms.iPlayer is currently only available as a download service for Windows XP, despite the BBC...

Tags: xp, linux, macs, iplayer

[19 Oct 2007]

Ashley Highfield

AS Profile His most notable achievement this year is the long-awaited launch of the BBC's iPlayer, which allows viewers to download Beeb programmes up to seven days after transmission and then watch them for up to 30 days before being automatically deleted.

[12 Oct 2007]

The Round-Up: 05.10.07

Round-Up Cheery, cheeky popsters Radiohead have decided to make their new album available for download from their website and the band - no strangers to experimental howling musical adventures - have allowed fans to choose their own price for the album.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[05 Oct 2007]

Editor's Blog: Ranking everything

Comment I'm working from home today and have compared my download/upload speeds over a home PC and a work laptop, both connected by Ethernet cables to the same router - rather than wi-fi, in the laptop's case, which I know would be slower.

Tags: ipod, brands, broadband

[13 Sep 2007]

Escape the data management minefield

Comment In a recent case Newcastle City Council's computer systems allowed the download of 54,000 customer credit card records. The public sector's data management is looking increasingly like Swiss cheese - full of holes.

[13 Sep 2007]

Who pays your broadband bill?

Comment For a more detailed look at the issues surrounding corporate telecoms, including employees working from home over broadband, download the "Convergence or confusion" report for free from the Quocirca website.

Tags: security policy, mobile phones, laptops, broadband

[21 Aug 2007]

Leader: BBC iPlayer broadband row - who's really to blame

Leader Claims by ISPs that the BBC should fund the extra bandwidth needed by users that want to download content from its online TV service iPlayer seems a little out of touch. Added to this, the programmes take around half an hour to download so a lot...

Tags: on demand, bandwidth, iplayer, isps

[16 Aug 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The power of analogy - or not

Comment The time to download a medium-sized VHS quality movie: Alternatively, the time to download an average novel of around 1Mb: Written on BA217 flying London to Washington and dispatched to silicon.com from my hotel via a low cost wi-fi service

[09 May 2007]

Editor's Blog: Moving bits

Comment A month ago, price comparison outfit uSwitch.com did some research on UK service providers and wasn't happy with the number (almost all of them) that claim to offer 'unlimited broadband' - meaning there is no cap on the amount you cumulatively...

Tags: toucan, asa, ofcom, dsl

[05 Apr 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 16.03.07

Round-Up Full details on how to download or subscribe to the Round-Up podcast can be found at the bottom of this email. 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 could look back on a...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[16 Mar 2007]

Leader: Why are we so unhappy with fat pipes?

Leader And those on such free services have also found themselves saddled with the smallest download limits and slowest speeds for their trouble, as ISPs try and persuade users to upgrade. Back in the heady late 90s, broadband was for the rich and tech...

Tags: free broadband, customer satisfaction, broadband britain, broadband

[28 Feb 2007]

Upwardly Mobile: Where are all the QRs?

Comment If you download some QR reading software onto your mobile, you should be able to take a snap and convert the code into text - and read my 'secret' message to you. No? Neither have many other people in the UK, apparently.

Tags: qr code, qr, upwardly mobile

[06 Feb 2007]

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