uk in comment and analysis
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment Recent research we conducted with online intellectual property specialist Commercial Security International estimates the value of counterfeit goods passing through online shopping sites in the UK to be as much as £800m. [22 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment And in the worst case it was necessary to dial in to the UK from far-flung places such as Singapore. Written while flying from London to Rome and dispatched on arrival at my hotel via a 3G HSDPA data service. [22 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment Today I can look back at episodes of the industry's history with real nostalgia: the start of a small company called Novell (UK) in London's Regent Street or when I shared a Boston taxi with a chap named Ray Ozzie, who had just been demonstrating... [17 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment Dixon Jones, UK G, UK Anonymous, UK How can they disconnect you because they THINK something is going on… I thought that in the UK you were innocent until proven guilty? Karen Challinor, UK Why are you running so many stories about this device, it... [15 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Enemies of the state
Comment The UK is rapidly becoming a third-world technology community, a decline that the government through its policies and ignorance is supporting. Questions about the UK government's role in IT excellence and progress rarely produce a positive response. [14 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: silicon.com - what a difference a decade makes
Comment Some are quaint: "UK cashpoints to take smartcards" while some are reminders of battles all but forgotten: "Microsoft browser overtakes Netscape rival". silicon.com is 10 years old this week, which prompted me to take a look through the archives... [11 Jul 2008]
Mentoring: Tech charity's recipe for success
Comment Richard Holway, for many years the most prominent IT industry analyst in the UK, was a co-founder of the Prince's Trust TLG and last week attended a celebratory dinner at Windsor Castle at which Prince Charles addressed more than 250 guests... [09 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Quality by design
Comment The UK car industry between 1970 and 1980 was not just destroyed by overseas competition. We all know it when we see it and we can get irritated when it's absent. Good design is one of those abstract things that are hard to define. [09 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.07.08
Round-Up About 23 per cent of the global spam went to the UK users. The 50 participants received more than 2,000 spam emails each over 30 days with UK users the fifth most targeted. One UK volunteer received 5,414 emails. [04 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: The naked truth about DSL
Comment But if naked DSL were widely adopted in the UK, the incumbent service providers would lose some revenue, both from those consumers who decide they can do without a landline at all and from those who would migrate to VoIP services over their... [03 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment David Fletcher, UK The issue that got readers talking this week was the IT-teacher drought - is "boring" IT to blame? Also getting readers reaching for their keyboards this week, the OFT and Kangaroo and phones on planes - love them or loathe them? [03 Jul 2008]
Woolly risk analysis is hastening a housing crash
Comment Although the effects of the global sub-prime lending crisis were seen as likely to bite the UK housing market, there has been very little clear evidence of the depth and breadth of the problem - until now. [03 Jul 2008]
¿Dónde está el iPhone 3G?
Comment How many iPhones has O2 UK sold to-date? The company will be expanding its iPhone offering from two regions - the UK and Ireland - to 16, he added. Why did O2 UK cut the price of the device? Everyone knows it's hard to get your hands on a 3G iPhone. [01 Jul 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment When you consider UK companies alone spend $50bn per year on business travel, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council, anything to get their executives out of the air and into an Aeron chair is a good thing. [30 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: What makes a great IT leader?
Comment The UK's leading CIOs revealed… John Suffolk UK government Gordon Lovell-Read Siemens UK These are important for reaching the very top and indispensable for avoiding a rapid return to earth, says the Naked CIO. [30 Jun 2008]
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