offline in comment and analysis
Editor's Blog: WFH, LOL?
Comment That might mean having alternative methods of access - a 3G data card rather than broadband - or getting somebody else to complete the task, or even having work to do offline. The average UK commuter spends almost 29 working days each year... [21 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: My Freecycle identity crisis
Comment Online you will use a variety of avatars, user names and other representations which in some way will reflect parts of the offline individual. Recently I had a bed I wanted to get rid of - one that was, I felt, too good to spend the next 1,000... [01 Apr 2008]
The truth about software as a service
Comment Google's answer to this is Google Gears, a generic web browser extension that allows developers to create an offline mode for on-demand applications. Hosted applications don't suit everyone all the time. [23 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.11.07
Round-Up The website has since been taken offline, presumably causing yet more stress. Life is full of little ironies and it's the teeny tiny ones that truly delight the Round-Up. One little irony this week is that HMRC employees are apparently so stressed... [30 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.07.07
Round-Up One irate reader wrote in to say of TalkTalk: "My service was supposed to be offline for four hours. Wimbledon will probably be concluding sometime this side of Christmas and large parts of the country remain under flood waters. [06 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.06.07
Round-Up YouTube went offline to Moroccans on 25 May, meaning anybody in Fez or Casablanca looking for footage of Mentos being dropped into bottles of Diet Coke will have been out of luck. In life it's important to know who you are and how other people see... [01 Jun 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Computer says 'no'
Comment Will Sturgeon explains why companies must realise switching on their website, sending automated emails and embracing e-tail doesn't abdicate their offline responsibility. The failure to understand why the computer had cancelled my order was one... [10 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: We've moved
Comment But how many businesses - maybe that should read 'successful businesses' - can be offline for any length of time? As our colleagues over on silicon.com's sister publication ZDNet UK pointed out last week, moving offices is fraught with difficulties... [11 Apr 2007]
Editor's Blog: Don't knock e-government until you've tried it
Comment I've had some good experiences with e-government, with my local council, in recent months. And they're perhaps even better in my mind when I compare them to more routine interactions with those we pay to manage and provide our local services. [17 Nov 2006]
Leader: How is ecommerce still taking a kicking?
Leader This would help consumers build a better picture of risk for both online and offline transactions (and will prevent situations such as this, earlier this year). Research out today has reconfirmed what many of us knew already - that ecommerce is far... [06 Nov 2006]
Leader: The drugs don't work
Leader In common with a great deal of online problems many of the answers exist online and offline. There have been several media reports today that picked up on doctors writing in medical journal The Lancet. [11 Aug 2006]
Leader: An Ofcom thumbs-up to new media regulation
Leader In terms of the latter, we should all be aware of 'buyer beware' - just as we have been for decades in the offline world. Telecoms and media watchdog Ofcom has published research into consumer protection for Brits on the internet. [21 Jun 2006]
Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
Comment They want to work offline as well as online. Think Web 2.0 and think Microsoft? Not necessarily. The company has long provided the tools for building websites. But it's been a couple of steps behind when it comes to some of the bigger ideas and... [22 Mar 2006]
Leader: Web brands take the battle to the high street
Leader The smart thing about the companies moving offline is they have already established themselves in one of the hardest and most competitive markets that exists: the internet. PayPal is one of a number of companies that is looking to extend its reach... [21 Mar 2006]
Leader: What the security 'stitch-up' should teach us
Leader They literally could have been anybody - irrespective of who they said they were and for that reason it's a worthwhile experiment if only because it shows simple social engineering - either online of offline - can still immediately make pretty... [16 Feb 2006]
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