faults in comment and analysis
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment Utility companies have the most mobile workers - lots of field service engineers rushing round reporting faults - and finance organisations have the most external workers - all those inter-company financial transactions. [24 Apr 2008]
Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam
Comment Faults like this recent one are outside an IT manager's control but no doubt they will still bear the brunt of blame from users. The answer lies not in faults with the core technology or - save the odd system-wide crash - in the implementation. [21 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08
Round-Up Inevitably, any new Apple product is discussed in terms of its faults as well as its virtues. This year, the pre-show rumours were largely right, which is always a little disappointing for those looking forward to the big surprise. [18 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07
Round-Up Possibly the Parcelforce van was one of the vehicles with the faults and careered helplessly into a tar pit. The data, which was contained on two CDs, was being sent from the DVA in Coleraine to the DVLA in Swansea in response to vehicle... [14 Dec 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Chinese whispers
Comment But anecdotal evidence suggests that the number of items shipped with faults that either prevent them working at all, or result in early failures, has increased sharply. From cheap laptops to budget routers, China's low-cost products have helped... [25 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Tesco PR, BPO and the AOP
Comment Our resident expert on this subject made the point yesterday in an interview with a newspaper that such activity can happen anywhere, so let's not pretend any particular location is without its faults - though on the flip side let's prosecute the... [05 Oct 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No more copper - fibre rules
Comment Water ingress in copper cables typically accounts for around 50 per cent of all the faults found in the access network. People employed in the switch and hub sites of the access network to reroute copper pairs, and repair all manner of faults, do... [07 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Heavyweight delete
Comment Both dual 250MB drives had different faults, which we diagnosed swiftly. Written at home after a few frustrating hours trying to recover from a dual hard-drive failure. Dispatched to silicon.com via a home LAN and optical fibre line. [03 Jan 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The beauty and bother of mobile email
Comment Not only are there new devices to manage and backup, and new operating systems to secure but the use of mobile email highlights faults which might otherwise have been fixed behind the scenes. The beauty of mobile email lies in its ability to boost... [12 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: To trust or not to trust machines?
Comment Even when they are contradictory indications, they tend to be dismissed as faults. Martin Brampton examines why humans sometimes feel comfortable relying on machines and computers - and why they sometimes prefer to see the decisions made by people. [26 Jul 2005]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: 3's mad ad
Comment When I last considered 3 - and, let's face it, this column has cast an eye over plenty of other operators who are fair game given their huge advertising spend and need to be inventive - for all the company's faults I left feeling fairly assured... [03 Nov 2004]
Leader: US Election 2004 verdict
Leader But again, for all the man's many faults, let's not confuse such fun-making with a hard and fast political stance. Bush or Kerry? Republican or Democrat? It has never been the policy of silicon.com to endorse candidates in political elections. [01 Nov 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Design software before you build it
Comment Testing software without knowing how it was constructed has severe limitations all the same, and unless the software is already pretty sound, it will only uncover a proportion of the faults that are lurking in the code. [04 May 2004]
The weekly Round-Up: 23.04.04
Comment David Price complained of recurring faults on his line and claimed in the most recent instance he had been kept waiting more than nine days for the line to be repaired. Ouch! Wince! The Round-Up is still carrying a few aches and pains from last... [23 Apr 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Let's get ecommerce right?
Comment If it wasn't bad enough that concerns about security have been an immovable - and largely unjustified - obstacle for companies encouraging consumers to get online, unfulfilled orders, wrongly fulfilled orders, false advertising, pricing mistakes... [19 Aug 2003]
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