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iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment I received a text from O2 saying the 3G iPhone was available as I'd pre-ordered but going to the website it says it's out of stock. It seems seven days cant pass without the government giving our readers something to rant about… see why one reader... [15 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment This sort of thing went on when I was a student all those years ago - it was just more localised as it was 'pre-internet' and so there wasn't the mechanism for matching tasks with foreign suppliers. Also attracting plenty of reader comment this... [27 Jun 2008]
Off the peg or tailor made?
Comment Could we be witnessing some pre-emptory moves by key companies in the corporate applications market? Fundamental changes are afoot in enterprise apps. These shifts will change the way organisations choose and pay for systems, says Corporate IT... [16 Jun 2008]
Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment Pre-release content is Shazam's "key differentiator", says Fisher - and getting those sounds into the database means having good relations with record labels and DJs. Shazam is a veteran of the mobile app industry. [12 Jun 2008]
Who voted on the CIO50?
Comment Over the past 20 years he has been responsible for some of the most high-profile executive search assignments in the technology sector, working with organisations ranging from pre-revenue start-ups to multibillion dollar industry leaders. [11 Jun 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment Representatives of International Business Wales dominated the pre-conference sessions. Other pre-conference discussions featured representatives of the high tech sector in Pakistan, Malaysia and China. [03 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity
Comment The new systems and equipment deployed and being developed to pre-qualify us before we even get to the airport give an added reassurance. Dispatched via a free wi-fi service. Before 9/11, I regularly travelled the planet with a full toolkit as well... [29 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment Without access to the plain text it may be impossible to secure prosecutions, which is one of the government's justifications for seeking longer pre-charge detention periods. But organisations would be wrong to pin all their hopes on it, warns... [27 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08
Round-Up Microsoft has stopped automatically distributing a pre-requisite piece of software for Vista Service Pack 1 following reports it had caused system problems. Trustworthy computing. It's a nice concept. [22 Feb 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?
Comment They remember the ground-breaking merger of AOL and Time Warner, which resulted in a combined company worth a 10th of the firms' pre-merger values. Despite the rhetoric, most large firms are simply poor at innovating. [20 Feb 2008]
Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense
Comment But Aerotel was granted a patent for its new combination of apparatus for making pre-paid telephone calls. Should software be patentable? A key court ruling has cranked up the debate. But what does the decision really mean to those involved in... [13 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08
Round-Up This year, the pre-show rumours were largely right, which is always a little disappointing for those looking forward to the big surprise. And so another Macworld has passed us by and Mac fans and news rooms are a-twitter with talk of the latest... [18 Jan 2008]
E-tailers beware: OFT web sweep is imminent
Comment They set out a number of consumer rights, including seven-day post-purchase cancellation rights, a right to a refund and a raft of information that must be provided pre- and post-sale. Although the OFT says the aim of the exercise is to "publish an... [14 Dec 2007]
Where is outsourcing heading?
Comment Analyst firm Gartner describes this industrialisation as the standardisation of IT services through pre-designed and pre-configured systems that are highly automated, repeatable, scalable and reliable and meet the needs of many organisations. [05 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: TV extends its reach
Comment The company has many global business relationships including ViaSat, 3, and Hutchinson Whampoa, which sells its handsets with the Slingbox application through the likes of Dixons pre-installed on Symbian-based handsets as well as reselling the... [24 Oct 2007]
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