purchased in comment and analysis
The Brampton Factor: Licensed to bill
Comment Moreover, little trouble seems to be taken to ensure that licences can be purchased to match the needs of customers. But does it justify inflicting misery on legitimate software buyers, asks Martin Brampton. [07 May 2008]
Leader: Missing Xmas parcels highlight online fulfilment dangers
Leader They will be more likely to blame the retailer they purchased the late (or in some cases never) arriving gift from. It can't be denied that the holiday period has been a bumper haul for internet retailing. [02 Jan 2008]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment CIOs will have to deal not only with LAN and WAN performance but with managing internal and purchased content. Experts argue new media will spell the demise of the IT professional. Not true, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield. [29 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...
Comment I believe the vast majority of PC's purchased are for users who operate them, which is a far cry from understanding them… What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are... [27 Sep 2007]
The hard reality of virtual world litigation
Comment Lindens are purchased using real US dollars. Virtual property is purchased using the virtual currency of Linden dollars. By mid-2006, the plaintiff had purchased numerous parcels of land as well as other virtual items. [14 Jun 2007]
Minority Report: Should Apple set its music free?
Comment The news is likely to go some way to placating the governments of EU countries such as France and Norway which have complained about FairPlay and threatened to introduce legislation to force the iTunes Store to relax its DRM restrictions to allow... [11 Apr 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: No locks?
Comment When I purchased my first new car in the 1960s just about everything was an optional extra. Written in a hotel near Morpeth, Northumberland, polished on the A1 heading south and dispatched to silicon.com from a free wi-fi hotspot in Cambridge [15 Mar 2007]
Brampton Factor: What's so great about one telecoms provider?
Comment Then came the news that PlusNet was to be purchased by BT. Telecoms companies may like the idea of providing customers with multiple services - fixed-line, mobile, broadband and data. But, asks Martin Brampton, is this really what customers want? [19 Dec 2006]
Editor's Blog: The analogue and digital of start-ups
Comment Eyeing a nearby WHSmith I did what dozens do everyday and purchased a mix of the newspapers - you know, so my father-in-law could get a 'flavour' for the local goings-on. I found myself standing at arrivals at Gatwick Airport yesterday morning... [04 Dec 2006]
Upwardly Mobile: Why I won't buy an iPhone
Comment I've spent hours of my life convincing iTunes I should be allowed to play songs I either ripped from lawfully bought CDs or purchased from Apple itself on my laptop or my iPod. Apple may think all iPod users are dying to buy an iPhone - but not Jo... [10 Nov 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Laptop error
Comment So I knowingly went out and purchased four identical laptops over a three- to four-month period. The manufacturer concerned purchased thousands of capacitors from a single supplier but there was a single bad batch that escaped detection. [04 Sep 2006]
Minority Report: Microsoft goes for Apple's jugular - the iPod
Comment Finally, it was also reported that Microsoft would allow users who had bought tracks from iTunes to completely replace their purchased music libraries with free replacement tracks from its own catalogue - something only Microsoft with its vast... [04 Aug 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: An overlooked way to save money
Comment One of the main reasons for this is that printers have not always been the responsibility of the IT function, either being purchased by departments or centrally through facilities management, along with photocopiers and fax machines. [13 Jul 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.04.06
Round-Up The second format - a 1 x 1 pixel ad - can be purchased in blocks of 10 by keyword. April Fool's Day has come and gone again and one technology company which pulled out all the stops to ensure last Saturday wasn't without a chortle was Google. [07 Apr 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Goodbye VHS
Comment I was an early VHS adopter, and in its 30-year history I purchased one machine after another and watched the technology get less clunky and more sophisticated. Written and edited on the A12, M25, M4 and M5 heading to Plymouth and dispatched to... [03 Jan 2006]
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