holiday in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up And yet for those working in the glass citadels in the City it might prove a bit stressful - it seems they're so obsessed with checking their work email that they'll even check it on holiday. After all, Tony Blair left John Prescott in charge when... [11 Jul 2008]
Minority Report: What's in store for the iPhone?
Comment Just enough time between Jobs announcing the 3G iPhone during the 9 June keynote and the 15 June AT&T-enforced holiday hiatus to flood the channels with inventory. When it comes to predicting Apple product launches, Seb Janacek admits his track... [23 May 2008]
Get mobile addicts out of the BlackBerry jam
Comment Addicts may take their CrackBerrys on holiday and even up to bed. It's becoming quite common to take a BlackBerry on holiday and some no doubt are carried up to bed. As the mobile industry started its grand annual event, Mobile World Congress, in... [21 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: The pyramids versus Macclesfield
Comment A couple of new destinations to add to your holiday list: after you've visited the pyramids and the Taj Mahal, how about Jodrell Bank or the Struve Geodetic Arc? Along with Cern, both these technological landmarks could end up on Unesco's World... [23 Jan 2008]
Leader: Missing Xmas parcels highlight online fulfilment dangers
Leader It can't be denied that the holiday period has been a bumper haul for internet retailing. One early poll put increases in customers at 27 per cent and increases in revenues at 46 per cent compared to the same period in 2006. [02 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.11.07
Round-Up To go with their 30 days holiday a year and non-contributable pension schemes. Life is full of little ironies and it's the teeny tiny ones that truly delight the Round-Up. One little irony this week is that HMRC employees are apparently so stressed... [30 Nov 2007]
Editor's Blog: Public sector and PCs - not boring, official
Comment I've been away for a week on holiday. I don't normally do the whole August time-off thing but a chance to combine two friends getting married in Umbria, Italy, with my first ever week on holiday in, well, Umbria, Italy, was too good to turn down. [29 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.07.07
Round-Up It seems many managers are just having too much fun to bother with a holiday. But Jo Causon, marketing and corporate affairs director at the CMI, isn't so sure, suggesting a fear of appearing weak may be the real reason people are rejecting their... [06 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.05.07
Round-Up It seems Blair may have realised if he is ever to go on a chateaux holiday in his dotage he'd better start rebuilding some bridges with France after three terms in power which would have led many a casual observer to assume the US is actually the... [11 May 2007]
Indian offshoring - the new worry
Comment It has only recently become a popular concept in India and angry mobs had burned shops that dared to sell gifts aimed at lovers celebrating the holiday - evidence of the local outrage at Western customs usurping local tradition. [14 Feb 2007]
Leader: The cure for info overload?
Leader And if you want to hear about businesses which are using BI to good effect, we've written case studies on several - from a publisher that has made its marketing campaigns more lucrative, to a university that has liberated it users, to a holiday... [29 Nov 2006]
Leader: We ALL want to use biometrics
Leader A tangible benefit from the use of biometrics has swayed a lot of people in the same way many euro-sceptics returned from their first holiday in the euro-zone thinking 'perhaps the pound isn't all that special after all'. [31 Oct 2006]
Confessions of a CrackBerry addict
Comment As an example, earlier in the summer I had an engine starter motor problem on the way back from Devon which needed urgent attention and I knew that my aircraft engineer was on holiday in Wales. Simon Moores loves his BlackBerry but admits it's made... [14 Sep 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 17
Comment My new Dutch friend told me most of the factory workers have to work weekends if they want to take extra holiday. He said a lot of the foreign factory workers went back home during the last national holiday, Golden Week, a fortnight ago and haven't... [26 Jun 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 2
Comment Tourists are everywhere as today is the final day of Golden Week - a national holiday that lasts - you guessed it - a week. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most... [08 Jun 2006]
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