shell in comment and analysis
Dear silicon.com... Vista uptake… HMRC blunder… iPhone too cool or too costly?
Comment Apple will be quite happy selling it to the early adopters who are happy to shell out for something a little special. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [29 Nov 2007]
Leader: A skin spat or OS X's new dawn?
Leader While the iPhone is not for everyone, running OS X in the shell of a Windows smart phone - or, for that matter, a Nokia running Symbian - would be the best of both worlds. Apple has once again put its lawyers to work - this time over a website that... [15 Jan 2007]
Leader: Set your workers free
Leader But taking advantage of them is not why they shell out cash on an office renovation - they're after better productivity and cost reductions. You're sitting in a meeting room in your office and want to share an email with your colleagues - so you... [05 Dec 2006]
Analysis: Nokia's new CEO - who is Kallasvuo?
Comment After more than a decade of leading the world's largest mobile phone company, Jorma Ollila stepped down from his CEO role this month (he is now chairman at Shell) and handed over control to 52-year-old new boy Kallasvuo. [09 Jun 2006]
Leader: Should we now doubt chip and PIN?
Leader This week we've heard that chip and PIN payments at Shell petrol stations across the UK have been stopped. A spokeswoman for Shell told silicon.com that all the handsets are "fully accredited and comply with all relevant industry standards". [09 May 2006]
Leader: VoIP and SMEs - a good match?
Leader This can quickly add up and require said SME to shell out more money for a higher bandwidth line. A recent survey shows that small businesses are nonplussed by VoIP - the vast majority have not deployed it and fail to see why they should. [17 Mar 2006]
Minority Report: Mac OS X virus scares
Comment Meanwhile, a third Mac security scare hit the "shell-shocked" Mac community last week with news of an "extremely critical" vulnerability in OS X. In a statement he warns: "Some owners of Mac computers have held the belief that Mac OS X is incapable... [03 Mar 2006]
Leader: The mixed blessing of paid-for email
Leader The idea is that if reputable companies are charged, even a nominal fee, to ensure delivery then they may well sign up, while spammers sending millions of emails per day aren't going to want to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for the... [07 Feb 2006]
Leader: The more broadband options, the better
Leader As broadband penetration in the UK has just passed the halfway mark, a pay-as-you-go plan appeals to an underserved niche: the light user, one who doesn't have the funds or the desire to shell out for the always-on connection but still needs that... [16 Nov 2005]
Interview: Mike Lynch, founder of Autonomy
Comment Autonomy already includes Astra Zeneca, British Aerospace, Nokia, Shell and Vodafone among a growing customer list. During the turn of the century technology boom years, Autonomy was something of a poster child for UK high-tech. [19 Sep 2005]
The McCue Interview: Unilever CIO Neil Cameron
Comment Unilever CIO Neil Cameron looks admiringly out of the window at the cranes and construction work busily underway on the shell of the global consumer goods manufacturer's opulent headquarters at Blackfriars Bridge in London. [01 Sep 2005]
Devil's Advocate: The true information age
Comment The information given out by companies has been increasingly manipulated in the interests of executives, right up to the point where Enron, an apparently rich and profitable company, turned out to be a bankrupt shell. [12 Apr 2005]
How small IT vendors can win big accounts
Comment Kalido, of course, had the benefit of being a spin-off from Shell - and thus could list that multinational as its first customer and Unilever, a Shell customer, as its second. But that doesn't it mean it's easy for the little guy to get his foot in... [18 Feb 2005]
The Companies Bill: It's worth the effort
Comment In the US, Sarbanes-Oxley followed the Enron and WorldCom scandals and the adoption of the already planned Companies Bill in the UK was made certain by the events at Parmalat and then Shell. Many companies will dread the IT investments they'll have... [15 Nov 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.10.04
Round-Up Anybody using a dial-up voicemail service actually had to shell out to retrieve Howard's message. "I don't know what I said exactly, but it was baaaaad! This was Steve Ballmer's slightly understated response when asked to comment on a statement... [08 Oct 2004]
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