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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.04.08

Round-Up This week, the Round-Up was distressed to hear that the collective ennui among London's workers is resulting in a fog of despair over the city more tangible than the pollution from traffic (wearing this may be one way to avoid the fumes ).

Tags: open source, zx spectrum, apple, london

[25 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…

Comment This allowed the staff to familiarise themselves with the systems and get actual hands-on experience before the station was opened to Eurostar traffic. Following that, another topic on readers' radars is the debate over the dangers of mobile phones...

Tags: laptop, t5, heathrow, mobile

[03 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08

Round-Up It certainly could be in the UK if the latest traffic figures are to be believed. The social networking phenomenon of 2007 and Web 2.0 poster child has reported the first fall in its traffic in the UK since measuring began in 2006.

Tags: facebook, ebay, sp1, vista

[22 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?

Comment His thinking is ISPs ought not to escape some level of liability given they ultimately reap the financial benefits of such internet traffic. Politicians are threatening ISPs with penalties if illegal downloading doesn't stop.

Tags: law, isps, downloads, piracy

[22 Feb 2008]

Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation

Comment What they're talking about is prioritised traffic, 24/7 support, guaranteed uptime and so on and so forth - so if there are any challenges, those are the areas that we should be focused on - are focusing on.

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, tiscali, talking

[21 Feb 2008]

Geography lessons for online retailers

Comment For businesses, this geo-targeting can improve click-through rates and increase revenues from website traffic. One way of doing that is to identify exactly where they are located, says Quocirca's Louella Fernandes.

Tags: geolocation, sales, customer loyalty, online retail

[09 Jan 2008]

How closely are you monitoring?

Comment It's 8pm on a Sunday night and for some unknown reason traffic in your computing infrastructure is deviating from normal. Management and control sessions can be easily analysed to look for after-hours access that doesn't match normal usage patterns...

Tags: monitoring, management, efficiency, performance

[10 Dec 2007]

Getting more out of the net

Comment The market is already red-hot with many vendors like Blue Coat, Expand, Packeteer and Riverbed offering appliances that sit at either end of a network and compress, reduce and accelerate the data traffic.

Tags: internet, saas, hosting, networks

[02 Nov 2007]

Tech Visions: TV extends its reach

Comment But also consider traffic cameras, typically very expensive, but in limited volume, requiring expensive T1 lines going to the camera. So, now I'm watching the news, and I click here, and out slides the traffic reports in a graphical format, or you...

Tags: digital media, mobile tv, slingbox, internet video

[24 Oct 2007]

Geelen and Pauwels

AS Profile Various projects are under way, from directing hungry night-owls to the nearest takeaway pizza shop to urban traffic management on a city-wide scale. Pieter Geelen and Peter-Frans Pauwels started out by founding Palmtop, a company that developed...

[12 Oct 2007]

Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt

AS Profile The key issue is turning YouTube's massive popularity and the traffic from its 130 million subscribers into dollars, and to this end Google has just launched an advertising format it hopes will work by not being too obtrusive.

[12 Oct 2007]

Editor's Blog: Tear up that boarding pass...

Comment And what would the likes of BT Openzone, T-Mobile et al think as they offer their chargeable services at such high-traffic - in every sense - locations? I'm lucky when it comes to travelling for work.

Tags: airport, atlarge, frequent flyer

[08 Oct 2007]

Leader: Where was Northern Rock's technology?

Leader A Northern Rock spokeswoman insisted the poor site performance is purely due to an unexpected increase in traffic, as if that were a reasonable excuse. Surely the bank has a duty to provide online customers with access to their accounts and should...

Tags: northern rock, banks, online banking

[19 Sep 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 20.07.07

Round-Up Other 'nightmares' for travelling execs include traffic problems (mercy! The life of the modern road warrior is fraught with peril and anxiety. Danger lurks around every corner, every corporate jolly is a journey along a razor's edge.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[20 Jul 2007]

Speeding up the net - is it possible?

Comment But that does not mean there is nothing to be done - there are many ways to control and accelerate WAN traffic to ensure employees' communications remain reliable and employees productive. One trend that is contributing to the increase in network...

Tags: public internet, vpn, wan

[09 Jul 2007]

Editor's Blog: Tech improves... but we don't?

Comment So often we think a change will take place because a technology has finally come of age to allow it to happen. How wrong we are. Time and time again we see that people also have to be ready to embrace changes.

Tags: airline websites, westminster, mobile payments, m-commerce

[28 Jun 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: How we'll beat road pricing

Comment Augment all of this with high taxes on road usage and fuel, and punitive parking and traffic violation fees, and I'm sure you get the picture. Unfortunately all efforts to sort out public transport have seen no significant improvements and in many...

Tags: peter cochrane, gps, road pricing

[12 Jun 2007]

Denise Plumpton

CIO Profile As well as taking over the HA's existing business information services and IT development functions, Plumpton's role is to develop a strategy for delivering better quality and more user-friendly information to help drivers beat traffic congestion.

[06 Jun 2007]

Editor's Blog: How to serve two billion page impressions

Comment If we can compress that traffic then we can reduce our costs. Will Sturgeon, editor-at-large of silicon.com, is blogging from the Citrix iForum in Edinburgh where a long-time contact of silicon.com came in for a well-deserved name-check.

Tags: page impressions, betfair

[05 Jun 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 01.06.07

Round-Up And when I checked my traffic statistics. I noticed I was getting more traffic than normal today," said Demopoulos, doing little to allay the suggestion he's a little on the boring side. In life it's important to know who you are and how other...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[01 Jun 2007]

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