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Job interviews: So you think you've got them sussed?

Comment They could be standing between you and success, says Cathy Holley of headhunters Boyden UK Global Executive Search. However good you think you are at job interviews, it doesn't hurt to go over the basics.

Tags: promotion, interviews, careers

[15 May 2008]

Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season

Comment This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search terms containing trademarks. When you take into account that navigational search - where users search for a specific brand name - is on the up and up, the potential impact on trademark...

Tags: keywords, google, search engines, trademarks

[30 Apr 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment Five years further into the search for this elusive goal, I'm reminded of one of my comments from that report: "This problem brings us to where we are today, at the beginning of 2003, looking back at a disastrous record of security incidents and...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08

Round-Up board with an ultimatum giving the internet search pioneer three weeks to enter formal merger negotiations and conclude a deal. announced this week that it's testing the use of Google ads on some of its search pages, raising the possibility of a...

Tags: windows, yahoo, gordon brown, microsoft

[11 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08

Round-Up The Round-Up's aware of at least one enterprise search company that actually has something quite similar in its marketing collateral. The company proclaimed it had developed a new search algorithm capable of predicting what would occur in 24 hours...

Tags: microsoft, apple, vista, hmrc

[04 Apr 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Searching for the truth

Comment There are hundreds of lesser-known examples, plus those amalgamating and federated search engines of search engines. Over the past few years I must have seen a dozen new search engines claiming to be the answer to a maiden's prayer.

Tags: artificial intelligence, search, web 2.0

[31 Mar 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation

Comment When they scan the building they can't see a TV set, so they conduct a search of the premises, and that's that. Written on JetBlue 0038 flying from JFK to Rochester NY, and dispatched via a free hotel wi-fi service.

Tags: television, revenue, radio, broadcast

[26 Mar 2008]

LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking

Comment Then you might want to say let's narrow the search, so I'm looking for a product manager who's in the internet industry in Silicon Valley who's trained in agile development. If you go into the advance search field for example, you can say I'm...

Tags: linkedin, network, online, facebook

[28 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech history repeats itself

Comment Just for fun I decided to conduct an experiment and walked over to a stationery supplier to search for some carbon paper. Written in the bar of a hotel in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia and despatched via a free wi-fi service in the lobby.

Tags: social networking, recruitment, skills, email

[25 Feb 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Do great firms innovate?

Comment Mobile telephony has long been engaged in a relatively fruitless search for new killer applications. And Google is now the undisputed king of online search, as well as holding the keys to a uniquely successful advertising model.

Tags: innovation, yahoo!, mergers, microsoft

[20 Feb 2008]

Editor's Blog: ID cards - cock-up and conspiracy...

Comment This is a giant government system that seems able to search TV news, automatic number-plate recognition, Afghan minefield maps and a host of other databases and display it all faster than it takes my laptop to open an email.

Tags: id cards, database, government, biometrics

[20 Feb 2008]

How to prepare for the interview

Comment You must take certain key steps, says Cathy Holley of headhunters Boyden Executive Search - and be careful of those earrings. If your CV has worked and got you an interview, what do you do next? Office insights…   Bored and underpaid?

Tags: cvs, careers, job-hunting, interviews

[08 Feb 2008]

How to write a killer CV

Comment A sharp CV really does count, says Cathy Holley of headhunters Boyden UK Global Executive Search - and certain facts matter more than your skills at tortoise husbandry. Thinking of changing jobs? Office insights…   Bored and underpaid?

Tags: careers, job-hunting, cvs, skills

[17 Jan 2008]

Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…

Comment Police seek full costs of HMRC CD search 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.

Tags: hmrc, police, school, vista

[17 Jan 2008]

Bill Gates Q&A: On why 'it's all about software'

Comment Do we have to continue to work on our advertising scale and our search and some usability things in our music products? For years, Microsoft's Bill Gates has been trumpeting software's ascent from the lowly PC to everything from mobile phones to...

Tags: bill gates, ces, vista, entertainment

[08 Jan 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Resolutions for 2008

Comment To search out even more technologies and applications to push the envelope of creativity and efficiency. Written on the M4 motorway in England as I was driven from Taunton to Ipswich. Dispatched via a commercial wi-fi service from a roadside café

Tags: technology, creativity, management, responsibility

[03 Jan 2008]

Editor's blog: What your identity is worth

Comment Considering the failure of the search for the discs so far, how long will it be before 'like looking for a CD in the taxman's office' becomes common usage instead? I always thought the cliche 'like looking for a needle in a haystack' was in need of...

Tags: full disclosure, hmrc, data, laws

[05 Dec 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.11.07

Round-Up Actually it's 'search' but cold fact isn't going to deny the Round-Up a little poetic licence. It’s all about the search engine's mission bring the web content experience into the mobile space. So, it's two of the biggest players in internet search...

Tags: yahoo, google, iphone, round-up

[09 Nov 2007]

Editor's Blog: CIO central

Comment See what happens if you tap 'CIO Forum' in to the silicon.com search. On Monday we held our fifth silicon.com CIO Forum, seeing leading lights from IT user organisations meet in London and discuss all manner of things - though this year the debate...

Tags: cio forum

[17 Oct 2007]

Blake Ross

AS Profile Ross isn't afraid to make waves either, having blasted Google for abusing its powerful position in the search market to promote its growing range of products. At the tender age of 22, Blake Ross makes his debut in the rankings because of his...

[12 Oct 2007]

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