petrol in comment and analysis
The McCue Interview: Ian Cramb, COO, Citigroup
Comment Ian Cramb is one of the increasing number of IT chiefs moving up the corporate ladder into wider operating roles, rising from CIO to become COO of the Citigroup's consumer business in 2006. It's a huge job, with responsibility for an... [10 Sep 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.08.08
Round-Up Also, it runs on petrol, which at the time of writing is about as valuable as platinum. The Round-Up has never been a big fan of DIY. At least, not since that incident with the electric drill and the very large plumber's... [08 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Identity crisis
Comment On my way to work I stop off for petrol and pay using my credit card. Like most IT directors, the Naked CIO is extremely careful with other people's data. So why as a consumer does he blithely share his own personal... [25 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment You don't wait until your car runs dry of petrol to pay your fuel tax do you (sorry fill up with petrol). What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the... [07 Feb 2008]
Why must IT go green?
Comment The long term trend for oil, gas, electricity and petrol costs is up, up, up. Green IT is not about compliance or coercion. It is about efficiency, says Stewart Baines. And that should make it more sustainable than any... [03 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Telecoms - get creative
Comment Free with six gallons of petrol Written in Helsinki and despatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi network that reached every room, bar and lobby in my hotel. Sooner or later it seems everything becomes a commodity. [12 Jun 2006]
Leader: Should we now doubt chip and PIN?
Leader This week we've heard that chip and PIN payments at Shell petrol stations across the UK have been stopped. The crimes here were committed by people who according to Apacs had easy access to the systems, the terminals and... [09 May 2006]
Leader: Driven by in-car connectivity
Leader Imagine Bluetooth or other personal area connectivity within the car, wi-fi for 'info-fuelling' as you stop at petrol stations or more humble cellular data for these and other uses. There has long been all manner of... [06 Feb 2006]
Devil's Advocate: The thing that could save chip-and-PIN
Comment After filling up my motorbike with petrol, I wandered into the shop and pulled out the credit card I use for fuel purchases. One downside to chip-and-PIN technology is having to remember a PIN number each time you make a... [27 Jul 2004]
The Ovum View: WLAN - beyond simple data access
Comment WLANs in petrol or service stations could be used to download diagnostic and fault information to repair services and at the same time to upload software profiles to the engine and onboard information to driver-oriented... [17 Apr 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The oil crisis of 2003
Comment Goodbye cheap and abundant flights, hello higher petrol/gas prices. Will 2003 be referred to in 50 years as the Oil Peak? Questions and answers from Peter Cochrane. It is the 1 January 2003 and I am reflecting on the... [09 Jan 2003]
Wearable technology: Computing power on and in us
Comment Some major petrol sellers in the US offer fobs which allow customers to buy gas, charged to an account without the need for cash or credit cards. Microchips, both simple and complex, are already commonplace, but here Pia... [23 Oct 2001]
Devil's Advocate: Your life in one chip
Comment Presumably, I'd become a non-person, unknown to banks, petrol stations, government and just about everyone that matters. In the first of a new weekly column for silicon.com, Martin Brampton, director at consultancy Black... [18 Sep 2001]
Breathing life into broadband: Will satellite technologies save the day?
Comment Hughes satellite terminals are also used by a variety of commercial customers, such as petrol stations, car showrooms, doctors' surgeries, and Camelot, which uses their system for linking remote lottery terminals to the... [21 Aug 2001]
www.election-scandals.com: How the web is undermining the party line
Comment The cheeky www.toryparty.co.uk purports to tell us about some of William Hague's lesser-known policies, such as plans to cut the price of petrol to zero and to conduct his election campaign from an army surplus tank to... [31 May 2001]
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