train in comment and analysis
Naked CIO: Put more business in IT education
Comment What can be done to better train students for the IT workplace? The Naked CIO has some suggestions. After reading a recent CIO Jury on whether universities are preparing youth properly for IT challenges, I began to think... [12 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.08.09
Round-Up Surely they had most to gain by a Twitter outage lasting hours - presumably one that caused a massive productivity jump in workplaces around the world as office workers had to find some real work to do instead of browsing 140-character... [14 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital TV too annoying to watch?
Comment Compiled on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com from the Institute of Directors via a free wi-fi service an hour later. Many countries are migrating to digital broadcast services, with most in... [11 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up Meanwhile, the policy train-wreck that is the ID cards scheme got even more painful this week after it was revealed that the scheme to hand out the cards to airport staff has cost the taxpayer more than £12m. [24 Jul 2009]
Indian outsourcing trainees feel heat of recession
Comment The largest of them, a Greco-Roman edifice, can train 9,500 individuals on any given day. Even if some of that competition has slowed due to the current economic recession, one constant is that Infosys has to... [23 Jun 2009]
Catherine Doran
CIO Profile It will include improvements to the accuracy, accessibility and quality of journey information for passengers, the renewal of out-of-date CCTV systems on routes into London, a new digital system to improve comms between... [02 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Why are we so wasteful?
Comment Compiled on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched to silicon.com via 3G during the same journey As a young man I worked in a number of 'mom and pop' stores and small businesses before joining a state-run enterprise. [28 May 2009]
Inbox: Brits ditching mobiles? Fat chance
Comment Less 'I'm on the train' crap for the rest of us to be forced to listen to. This week: Brits ditching their mobiles, pilots bailing out on ID cards, smart metering and speed-limiting tech all topped the list for readers'... [18 May 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: RIP newspapers
Comment Compiled on the 06.53 Ipswich to London train, and dispatched to silicon.com via wi-fi from The Institute of Directors in London It had to happen sooner or later: newspapers are starting to abandon their traditional... [23 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.03.09
Round-Up Everyone who gets a train to work has to put up with the ceaseless aural pollution from commuters' mobiles already, so why should travellers on the underground miss out on the fun? Just because you can technically do... [20 Mar 2009]
Inbox: Thin clients dealt Defra death blow?
Comment Saying "Don't complain - train to be an IT professional and help us change it" is not the answer. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. [05 Mar 2009]
Naked CIO: Tech is my job, not your hobby
Comment But if you are truly shocked by the very real challenges that are encountered in every IT department across the country, don't complain - train to be an IT professional and help us change it. Why does everyone inside... [03 Mar 2009]
Inbox: Let's plug the UK's notspots
Comment Train wreck ahead The mother of all government IT runaway train wrecks is steaming in.and will arrive in six months. This week also saw the NHS National Programme for IT in the spotlight again, while the... [30 Jan 2009]
Do you need video in your enterprise?
Comment All aboard the wi-fi train Video has been hailed a productivity booster and cost saver. But can it deliver? Freeform Dynamics's IdaRose Sylvester explains what video can and can't do. As we enter 2009, reducing spending,... [05 Jan 2009]
Indian outsourcers shore up their defences
Comment The horrific attacks on hotels, a train station, a bar café, an apartment block and a hospital in Mumbai at the end of November, streamed live on television accompanied by incessant commentary, rattled the world. [10 Dec 2008]
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