match.com in comment and analysis
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment We do this to market more effectively to customers who match the predictive characteristics of people who tend to buy our products. Our lives would clearly be much better if more information were held. [21 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment It didn't quite happen as he predicted and quickly VB prevailed over C++ but the 1980s industry heavyweights like Borland, Lotus Development, WordPerfect, or even IBM with OS/2 weren't in the end a match for Bill Gates. [17 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: Shopping just got high-tech ¦ Bill Gates on the future, the past and the brilliance of fertilizer… ¦ Photos: Bill Gates through the... [27 Jun 2008]
Simon Post
CIO Profile Technology plays an increasingly critical role for mobile phone retailer The Carphone Warehouse as the business moves into the wireless world, and Simon Post has been responsible for successfully steering IT through a two-year period of... [11 Jun 2008]
Claire Hamon
CIO Profile In a recent interview about her role at Rok, Hamon told silicon.com: "I think me coming here at a time when the business is growing so dramatically is a very, very exciting time. I think it's a good match in terms of the skills I bring and the... [11 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: The V-word
Comment I am sure I could have lunch every day of the week and attend every Six Nations match weekend and a multitude of Premiership games if I were so inclined. I use silicon.com and other sites to research emerging technology or news-worthy innovations... [09 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth
Comment Written at home on a wet evening and dispatched to silicon.com via personal LAN. A quick visit to Urban Legends and other debunking sites such as Snopes.com and Truthorfiction.com reveal a wealth of riches and illustrates my point about validity... [31 Mar 2008]
Systems management hits impasse
Comment Furthermore, future vendor alignment does not have to match the past. Organisations need a more coherent view - and one that has business meaning, says Martin Atherton of Freeform Dynamics. Most of what the IT department does these days can be... [13 Feb 2008]
Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008
Comment In contrast to equities, fixed-income markets provide no opportunities for arbitrage - the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same securities in different markets to profit from unequal prices - because the securities are seldom quoted on... [30 Jan 2008]
The truth about software as a service
Comment A few years ago Salesforce.com released its Off-line Edition for its popular customer relationship management (CRM) product. That's why it's becoming increasingly common to mix and match on-demand and on-premise elements from different suppliers... [23 Jan 2008]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment Management and control sessions can be easily analysed to look for after-hours access that doesn't match normal usage patterns," Potter says, adding administrators might be surprised to find out how much peer-to-peer and instant messaging traffic... [10 Dec 2007]
Time to rethink performance management
Comment Indeed, information fragmentation is acknowledged as being a significant factor in the inability of organisations to refocus performance management and match the increasing speed of business. But they may well be measuring the wrong things, says... [04 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: TV extends its reach
Comment Audiences want to mix and match from different media sources and aggregate personalised playback. The power of broadcasters to dictate what you watch and when is waning. Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield looks at what's accelerating that trend... [24 Oct 2007]
Why do public sector projects fail?
Comment Back in the spring a doctor application system which was supposed to match junior doctors to specialist training posts was shelved by ministers. The NAO branded the project, "one of the worst public administration scandals of modern times".silicon... [24 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up Match.com - an online dating site, rather than a website selling Swan Vestas - tried to break the world record for the most people snogging simultaneously. Speaking of Match.com, check out this week's caption competition for a pic of the company's... [29 Jun 2007]
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