mercury in comment and analysis
Dear silicon.com... MS vs open source, wi-fi risks, being green...
Comment That equipment was definitely designed for obsolescence and contains things like mercury and other toxins (which the RoHS Directive eliminated only recently). Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech... [18 Oct 2007]
The greening of IT: Why less is more
Comment Last year Greenpeace rated the major PC manufacturers on how well they dealt with harmful chemicals integral to the production of their laptops - including lead, chromium, cadmium, mercury, bromine, polybrominated flame retardants and PVCs - and... [13 Aug 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Rabbiting on about wi-fi
Comment These services (others include the better-known Rabbit, as well as Mercury Callpoint and Zonephone) allowed subscribers to carry phone handsets with them and make outgoing calls whenever they were within range (around 100 metres) of the... [28 Nov 2006]
Why AMD is putting its chips in one basket
Comment Dean McCarron, the principal analyst at Mercury Research, said: "They want some of the integration possibilities that ATI gives them. Mercury Research's McCarron said: "Ironically, AMD's product will end up looking a lot like Timna. [25 Jul 2006]
Analysis: Intel's big push for convergence
Comment Intel might be contemplating the sale of several communications-related businesses, according to recent reports from the San Jose Mercury News and The Wall Street Journal. Chip giant Intel has long been hoping to make its computer processing... [07 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.04.05
Round-Up Deserters Song' - Mercury Rev What do you buy the man who has everything. An iPod, of course. George W. Bush (who, with the exception of 'a brain', may well meet the above criterion) is now the proud owner of one of the must-have gadgets, which was... [15 Apr 2005]
Why so many public sector IT projects fail
Comment None of this is helped by the fact that many public sector IT projects are driven by politics, says Andrew Smith of Mercury Interactive. Mercury's Smith warns public sector bodies tend to focus on the post-deployment service cycle, as well as the... [14 Mar 2005]
India diary: Day five - Bangalore's contradictions
Comment Back in Bangalore centre the mercury nudges 40 degrees again so I take up an offer of lunch at the majestically colonial Bangalore Club in the heart of the city. silicon.com reporter Andy McCue was on assignment in India from 14 to 23 April... [04 Jun 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.08.03
Round-Up The blunder was made all the more ironic after a Newsweek cover story last week said Dean "is revolutionising political fund-raising with his clever cyberstumping," while Dan Gillmor, a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, proclaimed that Dean... [22 Aug 2003]
Can the beige box ever be a green box?
Comment For starters, the average PC contains traces of lead, cadmium and mercury. When the time comes to scrap your PC, whose responsibility is it to dispose of it safely? Why not dump it in a skip? At least then the buck is passed to the local council or... [23 Apr 2003]
PC Recycling: How green is the Valley?
Comment But doing so is an essential part of the recycling process, since a relatively small amount of mercury could poison a huge batch of recycled gear. Elements such as mercury and lead, and other more complex chemicals, aren't generally considered... [23 Apr 2003]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 24.01.03
Comment And hot mercury isn't very nice. He held a mercury thermometer against the refurbished machine. Our friend then called poison control who told him (helpfully) to move the source of heat away from the mercury, get it off his skin and dispose of it. [24 Jan 2003]
Why you should care about BTO
Comment Mercury Interactive, a successful but by no means giant software vendor, has today come out - with the help of people like Forrester, Gartner and new partner Accenture - to preach BTO. So BTO, and Mercury's product today (expect more from other... [30 Sep 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Google's magic formula, going mobile, and Oracle's testing times
Comment In a joint announcement, Oracle and Mercury Interactive (MI) have agreed to bundle Mercury's testing tools into Oracle E-Business Suite. It's the hottest property on the web, growing faster than any other site and still knocking the spots off the... [08 Jul 2002]
HP-Compaq: It's a family affair
Comment David Packard junior told the San Jose Mercury: "Bill and Dave never developed a premeditated business strategy that treated HP employees as expendable," he said. So the Hewletts and the Packards aren't happy with Fiorina's plans for their company. [07 Nov 2001]
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