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The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up The European Union has pressed play on plans to get web users who consistently use music and film file sharing websites kicked off the internet. Losing internet access would be like losing an arm to these people. [11 Jul 2008]
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment John Shewchuk According to Microsoft, Shewchuck "leads the Project Zurich architecture and strategy teams, which are focused on extending Microsoft's .NET application development technologies to the internet 'cloud'. [24 Jun 2008]
Phil Pavitt
CIO Profile In 1998 he headed up NTL's internet TV launch, becoming CIO for the company in 2003 and in 2005 he moved to Onetel, part of the Centrica group, also as CIO. In his first move into the public sector Phil Pavitt was appointed as Group CIO for... [11 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.08
Round-Up This week's thorny bone of contention, to mix a metaphor or two, is a report by UK fat pipe watcher and advice website thinkbroadband, which says the countryside still lags some way behind urban areas - contrary to last week's Ofcom report hailing... [06 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Migrant techies and BBC web budget busters…
Comment Its internet services can really only be justified where used as a direct complement to the TV service. BBC's remit/public service is being fulfilled pretty well. UK plc 'needs more skilled migrants' This is total rubbish! [05 Jun 2008]
Who sat in judgement...
Comment He has worked in IT since graduating in 1975, in a range of software, consultancy and internet-based businesses. These days, she gets stirred up by issues concerning internet regulation, intellectual property rights and software patents, online... [03 Jun 2008]
Tech Futures: The talkification of the web
Comment The film and music industries have been turned upside down by the arrival of the internet. The internet is set to get louder with the talkification of the web. For years, Skype and other VoIP services have been providing an internet alternative to... [01 May 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment As the mobile phone continues on its evolutionary path away from humble communications unit to converged device and emerging platform, the companies best suited to take it forward may well be those with a track record in developing applications... [23 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers The Home Office expect widespread public support on various issues…they can't even manage their own jobs without high levels of guidance. This week, readers had a thing or two to say about the Home Office... [17 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Because most internet crime cases involve misuse of bank accounts and bank or credit cards, how banks treat losses to the customer's accounts is paramount to maintaining consumer confidence in online trading. [15 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... iPlayer vs ISPs, rip off outsourcing, social networking…
Comment It would be a lot better if the politicians who made these proposals actually had an understanding of how the internet works. Now this would be far more effective if UK internet users were required to present their national ID card to a chip reader... [10 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment The occupants then go back to watching TV over the internet - and all for free. Such a trend poses interesting questions for the future, especially when in some countries public broadcasting is funded by a levy or licence on the basis of TV ownership. [26 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08
Round-Up The Round-Up, being the impressionable type, believes anything published on the internet. Those were the heady days when websites would be plastered with statements like: 'Best viewed in Internet Explorer' or 'Best viewed in Netscape Navigator' as... [07 Mar 2008]
Just whose legislation rules the internet?
Comment When he tried to stop them he discovered some surprising facts about the internet and the law. Margaret Briffa, an internet and ecommerce lawyer, tells me the position taken by Google not only makes no concession to UK or European defamation laws... [05 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Lords above!
Comment Their other suggestions included increasing resources for the police to deal with internet-based crime, and allowing victims of online card fraud to report to the police - rather than to the banks which seem reluctant to act in many cases. [27 Feb 2008]
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