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Don Grice
AS Profile Named after New Mexico's state bird, Roadrunner is twice as fast as the current IBM Blue Gene number one supercomputer and the first to break the petaflop barrier, meaning it is capable of performing one thousand... [07 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.08.08
Round-Up The supplier has not been named. There's a row brewing in Whitehall and just for a change it has nothing to do with government policy on immigration or the loss of yet more personal data. Instead, some MPs are getting... [22 Aug 2008]
Is BlackBerry taking a leaf out of Apple's book?
Comment The latest leaked pictures to crop up online purport to show yet another device, this one named the BlackBerry Javelin (timely Olympic theme), which appears to be a Bold lite, presumably aimed at hurling RIM right into... [14 Aug 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... [17 Jul 2008]
John Suffolk
CIO Profile In true Animal Farm style some of the pigs are named after chief executives and royalty. Although not a CIO in the traditional sense - each government department has its own CIO - John Suffolk is the public face of UK... [11 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.05.08
Round-Up William Worsley, the alliterative but disappointingly single-barrelled-named deputy director of the Country Land & Business Association, said the claim "beggars belief". Recently, silicon.com reported that take-up of... [30 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.04.08
Round-Up There are many more quotes from Johnson available from the very useful and aptly named Samual Johnson.com. It's a rare old week when the Round-Up gets a chance to consider how the aphorisms of the father of modern... [25 Apr 2008]
Itanium revisited - one year on
Comment The 1.66GHz clock speed put it at just a smidgen (3.75 per cent) higher than the 1.60GHz of its Montecito predecessor, named after a swanky Santa Barbara neighbourhood that is home to Oprah, Steve Martin, John Cleese,... [13 Dec 2007]
Q&A: Bruce Schneier, CTO of BT Counterpane
Comment Security expert Bruce Schneier is well-known for his candid views on the security industry - one of the reasons he was named as one of this year's Agenda Setters.silicon.com caught up with Schneier at the RSA Conference... [23 Oct 2007]
Jonathan Ive
AS Profile He was also named Designer of the Year by London's Design Museum in 2003 and 2004. Jonathan Ive is the British designer who has set Apple's products apart from those of its rivals. More than that, he has established... [12 Oct 2007]
Full Disclosure - silicon.com launches data breaches campaign
Comment Last year silicon.com chronicled the case of a still-to-be-named UK retailer which suffered a security breach that led to thousands of customers having their credit cards reissued. Today silicon.com launches its Full... [16 Jul 2007]
John Suffolk
CIO Profile In true Animal Farm style some of the pigs are named after chief executives and royalty. What they say about him: "Has come into government to help deliver massive change, in cultures that think about more than money. [06 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.05.07
Round-Up The work was carried out by the Mayo clinic (could they be named after something more fattening? "You're the one for me, fatty," sang Morrissey all the way back in 1992, yet not everybody is quite so welcoming of the... [18 May 2007]
Leader: Laptop as the most personal device?
Leader Many of the machines debuting this week take advantage of Intel's latest technology offering, referred to as Centrino Pro in business laptops and code-named Santa Rosa. We know the technology world changes quickly but it... [10 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.05.07
Round-Up The problem here is that Intel has unveiled a new family of microprocessors code-named 'Penryn'. Most confusing in all of this of course is why Intel would have named its chips after a small town on the... [04 May 2007]
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