train in comment and analysis
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.06.08
Round-Up Inmates at London's largest prison, HMP Wandsworth, are getting the chance to train for a career in IT. It realises that just about every news organisation in the world has been dedicating an unfeasible amount of column inches - or pixels if you... [13 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…
Comment A train-wreck of a migration plan, always likely to fail, and driven by BA marketing puff of how great we are. The Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) chaos has dominated reader comments this week, with many readers, unsurprisingly, astonished it went so wrong. [03 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick starring Steve Martin is also a neat segue into the Round-Up's opening gambit, after a week gorging itself senseless on chocolate eggs and iPlayer programmes. [28 Mar 2008]
It's time Indian IT took the lead
Comment This approach may have provided a nice gravy train but firms need to take risks to innovate for the future. India's booming tech industry seems acutely aware of the problems it faces - conservatism, social exclusion, lack of diversity. [20 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Mobile users break free
Comment Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched via a free wi-fi service in London. Suppose for a moment you bought a pen and found it would only write on a particular brand of paper. Or perhaps even more strangely, a car that only operated... [05 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast
Comment Written on the London-Ipswich train and sent via a wi-fi signal picked up at the bottom of a field in a remote part of Suffolk, UK. During the past 15 years I have seen one generation of laptop after another get faster and more expansive with a... [28 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jammers galore
Comment Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched from a coffee shop in London over a commercial wi-fi service I have just been challenged about some of the statements in my 12 June 2007 blog about the possibility of jamming GPS signals to... [12 Dec 2007]
Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment The Yankee Group, for example, last month said web 2.0 is heading for a slow-motion security train wreck. The web is already the main target for security attacks. Now the functionality of dynamic web 2.0 applications is providing new ways to... [26 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...
Comment It'd bad enough on the train without subjecting us to this! 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. [25 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... wi-fi CCTV, BBC iPlayer, skills shortage, robots...
Comment Les Blunden, Winchester sigh* here we go again, more arguements for offshoring on the way stop looking for exact matches and be prepared to train your staff be prepared to hire university leavers and teach them the interpersonal skills you think... [13 Sep 2007]
Leader: How green is your (silicon) valley?
Leader If an employee usually takes public transport it is unlikely a bus or train won't run because that person isn't on it. A report by the Energy Saving Trust has questioned the 'greenness' of working from home (WFH). [05 Jul 2007]
Data centre in a box
Comment The transport systems of the world have been built around the universal form factor of the container, so there will be no problem moving this baby by ship, truck, train or even heavy-lift helicopter. Sun's new 'data centre in a container' is... [18 Jun 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Wary of wikis? Cynical about Second Life?
Comment The guys on the train couldn't access Facebook - so they agreed to get in contact by webmail instead. So be careful how you choose to limit access to wikis, blogs, social networking, virtual worlds and more, warns Steve Ranger. [14 Jun 2007]
David Burden
CIO Profile At the time he was spending a gap year travelling across Australia by train, hiking in New Zealand and taking part in ocean swimming competitions but was coaxed into the role by chairman Allan Leighton. [06 Jun 2007]
Will's Web Watch: Let the train take the strain
Comment Will Sturgeon explains why business travel by train within the UK is a far more beneficial and enjoyable experience than flying, thanks in large part to the installation of wi-fi on many routes. In past years I've chosen to fly but this year I'm... [04 Jun 2007]
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