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Tech Futures: The talkification of the web

Comment According to Ribbit, the walled garden model of the past must make way for a web-based, Flash-enabled world that is not bound to any particular hardware or software. Now it's the turn of telecoms, argues Howard Greenfield.

Tags: internet, comms, voice

[01 May 2008]

Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up

Comment Countless more sensitive files must be lost every day on USB drives when someone downloads accounts records to work from home but mislays the flash drive en route or emails it to the wrong address. Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is...

Tags: threat, data theft, social engineering, security

[10 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…

Comment As if these figures aren't scary enough, I notice there is no mention of how many portable hard drives (USB sticks, flash drives etc) staff from the government have lost since 2001. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this...

Tags: vista, data, anpr, sp1

[21 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Tax man's stamp bill, more lost data, unencrypted laptops…

Comment I left a USB flash drive in my shirt pocket and my wife washed it. A month later, I found the flash drive in the sump of the washing machine. Tax man's stamp blowout Taxpayer stung by £2.25m HMRC apology

Tags: encryption, whitehall, hmrc, laptops

[24 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 16.11.07

Round-Up They also lead to shattered dreams of flash cars and Chelsea pads and an ocean of misery and regret. It's the idea of history repeating itself but for the stroky-beard brigade. Nietzsche himself had no beard, though he did have a moustache that...

Tags: microsoft, linux, windows, laptops

[16 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 07.09.07

Round-Up And then, the Round-Up suspects, only because mega capacity flash memory is too scarce and expensive to stick into devices to cater for people who simply have to carry around 40,000 songs in their pocket.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[07 Sep 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 06.07.07

Round-Up Meanwhile those of us standing on dry land are dusting off our winter coats and scarves and dodging hail storms that would have Flash Gordon running for cover. Wimbledon will probably be concluding sometime this side of Christmas and large parts of...

Tags: wfh, online gambling, broadband, orange

[06 Jul 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 08.06.07

Round-Up HolyLemon.com boasts around 1.1million unique visitors per month, which isn't bad for a website that O'Neill originally set up while studying for his GCSEs as a way of showing off some Flash animations he'd created.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[08 Jun 2007]

Will's Web Watch: Let the train take the strain

Comment She doesn't add whether this is a news flash or just a statement of fact. Will Sturgeon explains why business travel by train within the UK is a far more beneficial and enjoyable experience than flying, thanks in large part to the installation of...

Tags: wi-fi, gner

[04 Jun 2007]

Editor's Blog: Toshiba laptops, Betfair Down Under and CIO-types

Comment Nothing flash, just the A100, which I like. Toshiba is a renowned laptop maker and as I have mentioned in previous posts, I am a user. Yesterday, like lots of people, I heard the news that, after Dell and Apple, Toshiba is the latest laptop maker...

Tags: betfair, toshiba, cio

[20 Sep 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: School's out - so watch out

Comment For sure, this summer ain't a flash in the pan - we haven't seen the last of this vacation surge. Written in my home office and despatched to silicon.com from a free domestic wi-fi connection in a forest glade just outside Chelmsford UK

Tags: malware

[21 Aug 2006]

Is the 'dumb blonde' phone here to stay?

Comment Nearly two million have been served outside LG's home market of South Korea, showing consumers can do without certain functionality if they're sufficiently seduced by a technological flash of ankle. Sleek, svelte mobiles are all the rage.

Tags: form, functionality, chocolate, razr

[07 Aug 2006]

Radioactive: Which way for wireless broadband?

Comment Another alternative is the Flash-OFDM technology offered by Flarion. The first nationwide Flarion Flash-OFDM network was deployed by T-Mobile in Slovakia and the Finnish government also has plans for a nationwide network.

Tags: sprint, wimax, intel, wireless broadband

[27 Jul 2006]

Dan's China diary - day 4

Comment She smiles at me, so I smile back and she shows me some English flash cards she's using. This is his warts-and-all diary, which appears daily this month. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis and exclusive...

Tags: china

[13 Jun 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Look out for the little guy

Comment Manufacturers of network cards, hubs and USB flash drives are all trying to up the ante, with products such as storage servers and home media hubs. Vendors who make software and hardware easy enough to use and manage for smaller companies will...

Tags: small it vendor, sme procurement, it vendor, smes

[05 Jan 2006]

Devil's Advocate: Business ethics

Comment Seeing a tiny minority of executives disappearing to jail is little comfort to those whose pensions have vanished in a flash of creative accountancy. Is the phrase 'business ethics' an oxymoron? Two recent quotes from silicon.com's CIO Forum...

Tags: business ethics, over-regulation, regulation

[03 Jan 2006]

Radioactive: Mobile phones - the battery conundrum

Comment It has developed two versions of DMFC fuel cells that can power flash and hard-disk players. The latest mobile device developments burn through standard Li-Ion batteries like no tomorrow. So what's the solution?

Tags: mobile phone, battery, battery life, fuel cell

[09 Nov 2005]

Leader: Nokia - PC maker?

Leader Take Slovakia's Flash OFDM rollout - phone broadband speeds are leapfrogging those available through xDSL in the country and, once natural tech churn puts web-capable devices in people's hands, who's to say phones won't become Slovakians' internet...

Tags: nokia

[03 Nov 2005]

The rise of new media

AS Analysis The 2005 Agenda Setters list shows a renewed focus on the media and the output of information through an increasing number of channels. But it also shows fortitude among the major players not to be usurped.

[26 Sep 2005]

The Weekly Round-Up: 16.09.05

Round-Up And it wasn't just Flash Larry splashing the cash over the past five days, oh no. "Oh, you work for Microsoft, you must be able to fix my computer then. Apparently that line haunts the daily lives of Microsoft employees as friends and family all...

[16 Sep 2005]

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