predicted in comment and analysis
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment It didn't quite happen as he predicted and quickly VB prevailed over C++ but the 1980s industry heavyweights like Borland, Lotus Development, WordPerfect, or even IBM with OS/2 weren't in the end a match for Bill Gates. [17 Jul 2008]
Minority Report: The 3G iPhone has landed
Comment As predicted, the main focus of the show was on the iPhone. There was nothing on new Mac hardware and no sign of the ghostly 'tablet Macs' some analysts had predicted. The subsidised rates were also widely predicted. [13 Jun 2008]
John Thorp
CIO Profile One of his achievements in the past year has been to outsource DSGi's printing infrastructure to Lexmark, with predicted cost savings of more than £500,000 per year and a 22 per cent reduction in the use of toner cartridges. [11 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up Speaking of which, Negroponte has boldly predicted that the overall cost of the device would be $75 by 2010. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, no less, predicted that entire cities would be built to accommodate it. [23 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Energy shortages loom
Comment Well, more IT per square metre than anyone ever imagined, new flexible work methods and hotdesking, led to greater occupancy rates than originally predicted. Written during an intensely boring conference session and dispatched via a free wi-fi node... [16 May 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment While worldwide computer unit sales continue to slow - although Macs are bucking the trend - it's in mobiles that growth is predicted as the web moves to handheld devices. As predicted by many pundits and industry leaders at the recent Mobile World... [23 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment NHS IT savings predicted to hit £1.14bn What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.e-cops [20 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08
Round-Up After all, despite a recent admission by most of silicon.com's CIO Jury that they were employing open source software in the enterprise in various shapes and forms, it's not had the impact on the corporate world that many predicted. [29 Feb 2008]
The rise of the 'Brics'
Comment The IT industry in India is developing at a rate that is predicted to cool each year, yet it keeps accelerating. Bric - another acronym every silicon.com reader should be aware of and, no, it's nothing to do with Microsoft or operating systems. [18 Dec 2007]
Azim Premji
AS Profile Premji has previously predicted that there will be at least two Indian companies in the top 10 global services providers in the next five years - and it is already commonplace for companies to have an offshoring element to most major contracts. [12 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Public sector and PCs - not boring, official
Comment While all and sundry predicted Lenovo - augmented by IBM's PC business - taking on the top spot, with Toshiba and other Japanese companies still strong in PC laptops, it looks as if Acer is now sticking out its chest with ambition. [29 Aug 2007]
Who pays your broadband bill?
Comment Now not only have computers evolved from techie gear into mainstream affordable consumer electronics, domestic communications networks have changed as predicted in the 1990s from plain old telephone systems (Pots) to pretty awesome new stuff (Pans). [21 Aug 2007]
Q&A: William Gibson, science fiction novelist
Comment William Gibson may not have predicted mobile phones but silicon.com has wireless tech nailed with this A to Z. He invented the word 'cyberspace' and his influential works predicted many of the changes technology has brought about.silicon.com's... [06 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: The green revolution and Everything 2.0
Comment One of the VCs predicted we were on the verge of a biotech boom that would dwarf anything we'd seen so far in information technology - referring to the dot-com or telecoms bubble of the late 1990s. I read this week that the former boss of wi-fi... [03 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.04.07
Round-Up User-generated content - such as amateur digital videos, podcasts, wikis and blogs - will have a massive impact on the film, advertising, music, publishing, radio and TV industries, the terrified executives have predicted. [20 Apr 2007]
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