point arguments in comment and analysis
Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user
Comment Addressing all the arguments is pointless, grounded as they are for the most part in subjectivity. Mac bashers fall back on the same old arguments to justify the alleged superiority of PCs. Partly because it seems to be a shortcut to a proper... [17 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.11.07
Round-Up Another eternal reoccurrence is endless arguments that take place between fans of competing operating systems and silicon.com last week enthusiastically poked the wasps' nest of OS discord with the stick of online polling. [16 Nov 2007]
Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world
Comment Hardware projects - OLPC and Intel's Classmate - are liable to get tangled in arguments about the location of manufacturing plants. So there is certainly a question about whether it is sound policy for developing countries to accept the IPR... [17 Jul 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: What's on my Christmas list
Comment And if you could concoct a mash-up showing me the location of all the nearest Wimpys, that would be helpful too - settle a lot of arguments. What's the point of dual-mode mobiles, VoIP phones and laptops with built-in wireless cards when wi-fi on... [14 Dec 2006]
Editor's Blog: So, er, what's the big idea?
Comment So what do we need to know, if we're not going to get perfect definitions and cost/benefit arguments? But I took his point. You sometimes see people's eyes glaze over after the mention of SOA or web services. [29 Sep 2006]
Minority Report: Apple staying in the minority?
Comment Partially because - love it or loathe it - the company continues to produce interesting and agenda-setting technology and partially because the arguments were getting rather tedious. Meanwhile, the company's market share in the US sits at 3.6 per... [12 Jun 2006]
Opinion: Microsoft vs Linux - the Empire strikes back?
Comment Strategically, Microsoft, after years of attempting to ignore the threat from the open source community, is now looking for the arguments that reinforce both its own paradigm model and customer loyalties that exist in the enterprise market. [23 Nov 2005]
Offshoring: Not the end of IT as we know it
Comment This is an important debate and it should not be trivialised by elevating pub conversations about offshoring to the point where those arguments are considered as fact.silicon.com is a good example of a media source that has worked hard to... [06 Dec 2004]
Leader: RFID, NFC and consumers
Leader And at this point let us say that beyond the reasonable arguments over privacy, this publication has largely stopped publishing any 'RFID marks the coming of The Beast 666'-type comments. Research out today shows a surprisingly high awareness of... [22 Oct 2004]
Devil's Advocate: When business gets in the way of security
Comment This leads to arguments that justify substantial spending on business continuity and security, on the grounds of the high cost of downtime. Our conception of efficiency involves systems being pared down to the point that they are almost failing. [21 Sep 2004]
Leader: How do we get more kids into tech?
Leader In truth that might be the one inescapable fact of life which undermines all other arguments and starts getting bums on seats in the classroom. One silicon.com reader wrote in this week to point out that any IT expert worth their salt would... [27 Aug 2004]
Leader: Non-moralistic arguments on Big Brother
Leader Those on the other side of the debate insist that isn't the point. It's a point worth noting. The latest research from silicon.com has shown more of our readers favour the introduction of ID cards in some form than oppose them. [19 Apr 2004]
Leader: Lazy Indian offshoring blame game
Leader Aside from the job loss issue, one of the main arguments used by those opposed to the offshoring of call centres to places like India is that the customer service suffers. The point is that service can be bad wherever the call centre is based, as... [11 Mar 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Freeing up software
Comment Paul W rounds off the arguments nicely by remarking that in the early days of PC development, a good deal of software copying did take place. David Sparkes comes to my support by saying that it would be easy to find ways to measure market share but... [12 Jan 2004]
Devil's Advocate: That’s MY code
Comment Much less is heard of the arguments to the contrary. Further arguments might surround the question of whether rich corporations that go to great lengths to press people into using their software ought in the process to sacrifice some of their... [30 Jun 2003]
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