festive in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 8.12.06
Round-Up From that subtle opening you'll have discerned the Round-Up is starting on something of a festive note this week. "Deck the halls with boughs of holly.fah-la-la-la-lah, la-la-la-lah" But before you too get high on seasonal cheer and start... [08 Dec 2006]
The Yearly Round-Up: 22.12.05
Round-Up the Round-Up, with a little help from Google, will now thoroughly bastardise that popular Christmas carol in the pursuit of a festive theme for this final Round-Up of the year. For the record, the Round-Up's favourite Christmas carol is 'O Come all... [22 Dec 2005]
Leader: The right to shop at work
Leader Or that now it is December we're overwhelmed with festive spirit. We heard this week that many of us will be using time at work to shop online for Christmas presents. This isn't down to the fatter pipes many of us have in the office. [02 Dec 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.11.05
Round-Up And from such saucy office party shenanigans to, well, more saucy office party shenanigans.and it's not even December.silicon.com this week exposed the weird and wonderful service calls received by photocopier giant Canon, which apparently go... [25 Nov 2005]
The Yearly Round-Up: 23.12.04
Comment Merry Christmas to all you dear readers who are working up until Christmas Eve, or all the way through the festive season - rest assured the Round-Up is with you until the bitter end, to bring a little seasonal cheer to your inbox. [23 Dec 2004]
Leader: Nokia believes the children are our future
Leader Mobile phone manufacturers ramp up their activity and their marketing efforts in the run-up to Christmas aware that Santa is delivering more and more high-tech handsets with the passing of each festive season. [20 Aug 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.12.03
Round-Up Despite claims by some analysts that camera phones are a menace the gadget is one of the must-have festive gifts of 2003. Christmas means many things to many people but in the 21st century it means one thing to most: shopping. [19 Dec 2003]
Will's Web Watch: Ecommerce's Christmas cracker
Comment Here are some of the sites which I've used this festive season (look away now family) and which I would recommend to anybody looking for a little last minute inspiration. Ever since the three wise men carried gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh... [17 Dec 2003]
The silicon.com Yearly Round-Up 2002 (part two)
Comment And Amazon - whisper it - even posted a profit this time last year, with another one on the cards for this festive quarter.eBay too proved there is money to be made online. Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems [27 Dec 2002]
Let's not count the business cost of Christmas
Comment It turns out festive emailing is a major drain on company resources, costing medium-sized businesses around £154m because of 22 million lost working hours (given certain assumptions on pay and so on). [17 Dec 2002]
Kat Slater and the man from Microsoft
Comment The town kicked off its festive celebrations this week, and invited a pukka, A-list celeb to flick the switch of the Microsoft-sponsored illuminations and to launch a charity appeal - Jessie Wallace, aka Kat Slater from EastEnders. [29 Nov 2002]
Re:Viewing 2001: Overview
Comment Over-shadowing everything this festive period is the knowledge that 2001 was the year of terrorist atrocities in the US. Plenty of commentators have talked about the past 12 to 18 months as the period when the high-tech world (the biggest catch-all... [21 Dec 2001]
A dot-com silver lining?
Comment If we get more positive messages from BEA Systems, Energis and Vodafone tomorrow, then Telewest and Dell later this week, and from Alan Greenspan's address to the US Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, then maybe we can start to look forward to a... [12 Nov 2001]
Jingle balls: tales of Xmas e-tail woe
Comment Meanwhile, Letsbuyit.com had a particularly fruity Yuletide, and we're not talking about the ingredients of their festive puddings. Their stock plunged 70 per cent, and trading in them was suspended on the fifth day of Christmas. [04 Jan 2001]
Of viruses, IT and the Christmas Grinch
Comment However dedicated the staff are, most likely they'll be slacking off a little before the festive break. But there's no real evidence to suggest that the festive season is any more dangerous than the rest of the year. [15 Dec 2000]
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