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The Weekly Round-Up: 18.07.08
Round-Up Doing it's own thing to keep morale high, the Round-Up quipped that maybe they should have got Steve Jobs along to perform a Feeding of the Multitude miracle and turn a handful of devices into thousands - or about 50 - for the assembled throng. [18 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Our industry is demonstrably unkind to the over-40s and India alone, I'm told, is churning out 250,000 IT graduates from its universities each year, all eager to compete for our increasingly outsourced and overpaid European technology jobs. [17 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Why we write about the iPhone
Comment Photos: Apple flying high at Macworld Photos: Apple's Jobs slims down laptop for Macworld 2008 Photos: High life at the high-tech hotel Photos: Who's in the iPhone queue? [17 Jul 2008]
10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone
Comment The 3G iPhone has finally arrived - a year and a half after CEO Steve Jobs first confirmed rumours Apple would indeed be making one of those fancy mobile phone things. There's plenty that's great about the new iPhone, says Natasha Lomas. [14 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Enemies of the state
Comment We are losing jobs and devaluing talent because of growing offshore initiatives by companies the government is implicitly encouraging through its silence and inaction. Failure to foster innovation and talent is what's really coming home to roost... [14 Jul 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?
Comment Perhaps that is behind the growing obsession with celebrity, although the supply of jobs for celebrities must be somewhat limited. Confused IT skills policies in schools and colleges are part of the problem. [09 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment Take away the best paying jobs, leaving only low paying service jobs only leads to devaluing the remaining jobs. Also attracting plenty of reader comment this week was the revelation that UK students are 'outsourcing' coursework to India. [27 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: The 3G iPhone has landed
Comment That Steve Jobs would announce a 3G version of the iPhone was not in doubt. Jobs said six million iPhones had already been sold and although it now faces a month with low inventory until 11 July, the demand for iPhone remains high. [13 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: The skills drain needs fixing
Comment Shipping IT work overseas is not just bad for those who lose their jobs here. The firms that make these offshoring decisions will ultimately make us all pay a heavy price, says the Naked CIO. Lloyds TSB deserves to be condemned. [27 May 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. In January 2007, Jobs spent a fair portion of precious keynote time and slide real... [23 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up Apple CEO Steve Jobs, no less, predicted that entire cities would be built to accommodate it. If the thought of ermine-clad Lords gliding gracefully up and down the hallowed corridors of the Palace of Westminster on Segways is your idea of a grand... [23 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment Karen is correct - there are thousands of highly skilled IT people doing other jobs just because they know more than the people who are recruiting them. The so-called skills slump in the UK has attracted a lot of attention this week, with many... [22 May 2008]
'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves
Comment A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data centresE is for Energy sourcesF is for FreecycleG is for GovernmentH is for HomeworkingI is for Ice capsJ is for Jobs (Steve) K is for KilowattsL is for LandfillM is for MercuryN... [28 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.04.08
Round-Up All this despair despite high UK earnings and plentiful jobs: labour market figures show employment at its highest level since records began in 1971, average earnings have increased and vacancies are at a record high. [25 Apr 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Apple CEO Steve Jobs must be feeling rather pleased with himself at the moment. CEO Steve Jobs announced at the iPhone launch last January that the company had put the OS X operating system at... [23 Apr 2008]
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