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Comment Margaret Briffa, an internet and ecommerce lawyer, tells me the position taken by Google not only makes no concession to UK or European defamation laws but is so one-sided in offering no help to the victim of unfair and vicious blogging that it...
[05 Mar 2008]
Comment For decades the statisticians had failed to come up with anything meaningful in terms of illuminating the depth and trends hidden in UN databases. Written at an Amsterdam airport hotel and dispatched to silicon.com via an expensive public wi-fi...
[12 Oct 2007]
Round-Up It's un-bel-ive-able! Steve here. I'm glad you guys could join me today - because I've got something pretty cool to tell you. That's right. In fact, you're not going to believe it. It's really cool. And no I'm not talking about the new iMac...
[10 Aug 2007]
CIO Profile A huge cricket fan, Rangaswami also specialises in trying to set "un-Googleable" questions about the sport that can't be answered doing a quick Google search. What they say about him: "A CIO 'paratrooper' who took on the transformation of values in...
[06 Jun 2007]
Round-Up The Government of the Sudan continues to ship both small arms and heavy weapons, ammunition and other military equipment into the Darfur states by air," claimed the UN report. Images on Google Earth clearly reveal the location, near Darfur of a...
[01 Jun 2007]
Round-Up If I'm looking for a UN resolution I don't go onto my website or onto the UN website - I let Sergei and Larry find it," he said of Google's founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page. The Round-Up is sure we've all applied for jobs at one time or other...
[13 Oct 2006]
Leader Bill Clinton flagged this up as early as January 2000 and the UN waded in more than two years ago. There have been several media reports today that picked up on doctors writing in medical journal The Lancet.
[11 Aug 2006]
Leader A significant proportion of the population (at least 80 million people according to the UN) live below the poverty line. Bill Gates must be feeling pretty chuffed with himself after the Chinese president paid a visit to his home.
[21 Apr 2006]
Leader The latest worst-case scenario UN predictions for an avian flu pandemic are that it could kill up to 150 million people. The threat of a worldwide flu pandemic - whether you believe it is being over-hyped or not - on the back of the H5N1 strain of...
[15 Mar 2006]
Round-Up A syndicate of organised, if deeply un-cool, criminals are believed to be behind a betting scam which made a fortune out of betting on the winners of programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and The X Factor.
[16 Dec 2005]
Comment This should happen in 2007, after the UN passed a ruling in December 2004 on the safety of fuel cartridges. So what's the solution? Futurity Media's Anthony Plewes looks at when - and if - fuels cells will arrive to save the day.
[09 Nov 2005]
Leader He said he would now always source "the right people wherever they are and wouldn't for a heartbeat think of not outsourcing because it was un-PC or I'd get bad press". There is an embarrassing silence when it comes to frank discussion about the...
[18 Oct 2005]
Comment We've been trained to assume the search engine is dumb and that takes a little un-training in enterprise. During the turn of the century technology boom years, Autonomy was something of a poster child for UK high-tech.
[19 Sep 2005]
Leader As the boys down in IT sort out your ASC X12 from the (UN) Edifact or the ebXML from the xCBL, pardon your customer service people making the odd call to key accounts. Research out last week about the failings of global supply chains makes for some...
[12 Sep 2005]
Comment Adobe is one of the most recent companies to launch a blog, and so far seems to be handling the relationship between its corporate location and the necessity for free and un-bureaucratic speech. In the second instalment of his two-part column on...
[30 Aug 2005]
Comment As the interview draws to a close the conversation gets back around to cricket and to Rangaswami's "un-Googleable" trivia questions. For cricket fan JP Rangaswami, CIO at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), the result was never...
[10 Aug 2005]
Comment There are, however, some statements that are entirely un-decidable; even with extra information - or indeed, with every piece of information possible - these statements cannot be determined to be true or false.
[18 May 2005]
Round-Up While to anybody who has filled their iPods with all manner of rubbish they really don't want to listen to all that often and album tracks they've not got around to deleting the idea sounds like a bad 'un, Apple is confident people will embrace...
[14 Jan 2005]
Round-Up The man now synonymous with the plot, Guido Fawkes, or Guy to his friends and schoolchildren worldwide, was found on the night of 5 November in the cellars of the government building with 36 barrels of gunpowder by UN weapons inspector Hans Blix...
[08 Nov 2004]
Round-Up Even the otherwise so-lovely-a-nation-relishes-waking-up-with-her-each-morning Natasha 'that girl can dance' Kaplinsky, was forced to comment on it, live on air, possibly as much out of surprise as offence, but as gaffes go it's a good 'un.
[08 Oct 2004]
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