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Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Whereas most lenders test their ability to withstand single shocks, such as a rise in interest rates, some have adopted multi-variable shock models to handle a combination of circumstances. This approach means going way beyond simple credit scoring... [03 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Europe's copyright controversy
Comment But there has been no standard application of levies, either on the rates applied or items levied. Rumblings from the EU about the controversial copyright levy suggest this thorny issue is being taken seriously. [18 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: The 3G iPhone has landed
Comment The subsidised rates were also widely predicted. Some Apple watchers got themselves overexcited in the run-up to this week's announcements. But even though the launches turned out to be short on shocks, there's still plenty to chew over, says Seb... [13 Jun 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment The exception is 3, which offers roaming on its European networks at the same rates as domestic costs. But now the problem for mobile workers is how to tap into all that increased connectivity, says George Malim. [12 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment So let's just do a broad-brush comparison based on reported death rates and see what the risk really looks like. Written at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands and dispatched via an airline lounge wi-fi service. [28 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]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity
Comment If there is any improvement in detection rates at airports, it seems to be marginal to date. Dispatched via a free wi-fi service. Before 9/11, I regularly travelled the planet with a full toolkit as well as other objects that are now classified as... [29 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'
Comment They are employing good consultants at high rates of pay, then ignoring the advice. This week, readers had a thing or two to say about the Home Office consultancy bill and were not best pleased by the mounting cost of ID cards. [17 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment UK businesses and individuals pay among the highest rates of tax in the world, but many public services have been cut to be replaced by costly private services. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? [20 Mar 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Monday
Comment But, inevitably, the conversation turned to roaming when a member of the press asked commissioner Reding whether she would be revealing at Congress, as she had said she would be, her thinking on how much more mobile data roaming rates needed to... [12 Feb 2008]
Fixed-income electronic trading faces bleak 2008
Comment General tightening of liquidity will see an increase in voice trading, especially for transactions of size across rates. Trading platforms without a bedrock of a strong and reliable flow of government securities or high-quality rates products will... [30 Jan 2008]
Editor's Blog: Ever hear the one about the happy Vista user?
Comment Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft I was talking to a friend of mine in the pub after work the other day. And after discussing some of the biggest geo-political issues of the day - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the global... [15 Jan 2008]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment For businesses, this geo-targeting can improve click-through rates and increase revenues from website traffic. But error rates may increase when users route their requests through a proxy for anonymity, or where mobile users browsing the internet... [09 Jan 2008]
Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers
Comment A report by the US Environmental Protection Agency in August suggested that simply by continuing current rates of server consolidation in the data centre, the US could save 15 million metric tonnes of carbon by 2011. [21 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.12.07
Round-Up Meanwhile, an equal and opposite reaction to Microsoft's bold claim is that piracy rates are so much lower for Vista because nobody actually wants to pirate it. Microsoft VP Mike Sievert beamed: "Piracy rates are lower because it's harder. [07 Dec 2007]
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