industry in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment Not only was the software absent, so was the industry mindset. Written while flying from London to Rome and dispatched on arrival at my hotel via a 3G HSDPA data service. Some 20 years ago I was running a series of experiments involving multiple... [22 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment Having worked in a customer service-based industry for many years, I am also acutely aware that customers expect businesses to know about them. The outcry about the amount of data held on individuals is entirely understandable, says the Naked CIO. [21 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Today I can look back at episodes of the industry's history with real nostalgia: the start of a small company called Novell (UK) in London's Regent Street or when I shared a Boston taxi with a chap named Ray Ozzie, who had just been demonstrating... [17 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Why we write about the iPhone
Comment For us the more interesting thing about the iPhone is the way it has forced the mobile industry to change how it does business. Google's Android is another development having an impact on the mobile industry in a similar way, promising some of the... [17 Jul 2008]
10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone
Comment Since then many iPhone clones have been born - many with fleeting lives - and the mobile industry has done a whole lot of waking up and smelling of coffee. There's plenty that's great about the new iPhone, says Natasha Lomas. [14 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Enemies of the state
Comment The concentration on legislation crippling the IT industry may be partly to blame for growing concerns about UK IT effectiveness but it is not the root cause. Politicians need to inspire educational institutions to breed the next generation of... [14 Jul 2008]
Mentoring: Tech charity's recipe for success
Comment Richard Holway, for many years the most prominent IT industry analyst in the UK, was a co-founder of the Prince's Trust TLG and last week attended a celebratory dinner at Windsor Castle at which Prince Charles addressed more than 250 guests... [09 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment The result of such misguided decision-making is evident throughout industry and government. The UK car industry between 1970 and 1980 was not just destroyed by overseas competition. We all know it when we see it and we can get irritated when it's... [09 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Service level disagreements
Comment In an industry trying to improve overall service, SLAs provide a licence to adopt a lowest-common-denominator mentality that acts against the concept of exceeding customer satisfaction. Service level agreements are great at perpetuating mediocrity... [07 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up On (roughly) the same subject it appears there may be a lack of people interested in helping the next generation get interested in the industry. This is all part of a campaign by the rather quaintly named British Phonographic Industry to educate... [04 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: The naked truth about DSL
Comment Telecoms watchdog Ofcom's view on this part of the market - from its statement on the regulation of VoIP from last year - is that industry is best placed to agree requirements for the provision of any such product. [03 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is convergence a fiction?
Comment For about a decade now the established industry wisdom would have us believe technology is converging. Written on the London Liverpool Street to Stansted Express and dispatched via my home LAN later the same day. [02 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader?
Comment That distinction may be the difference between being recognised as a great CIO or dismissed as a nobody in our fickle industry. These are important for reaching the very top and indispensable for avoiding a rapid return to earth, says the Naked CIO. [30 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment The games industry is the latest to suffer the dreaded skills gap - but who's to blame? Universities blamed for games industry skills crisis If the games industry wants to nurture talent for the next generation, what they could look at is running... [27 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 27.06.08
Round-Up Check out this jolly collection of quotes offered as homage to an iconic multibillionaire who helped forge an industry but simply didn't believe in paying more than seven dollars for a haircut. Gates was the techie, Ballmer is a sales guy, so the... [27 Jun 2008]
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