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The Weekly Round-Up: 25.07.08
Round-Up It was hardly a fun drive but, having gotten hopelessly lost using the traditional Round-Up map-reading methods, it got us to the right destination, albeit in frosty silence. It's worth pondering but don’t dwell on it if you happen to be dawdling... [25 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment What the eBay case should teach us is that sites and copyright owners cannot be complacent about e-fencing. It signals a new intent to tighten online policing, says lawyer Simon Levine. It's not just social networks that are facing pressure to... [22 Jul 2008]
Beijing Olympics diary: Testing times…
Comment In Beijing specially installed clocks constantly remind us to the second the time remaining to the opening ceremony at 8pm on 08.08.08. Volunteers and full-time staff from Atos Origin and the other IT partners will be joining us every day between... [21 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Going public about privacy
Comment The first reaction is always outrage: people will know too much about us. I look at the information we obtain on our customers - people who have already engaged in some sort of transaction with us. Our lives would clearly be much better if more... [21 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment I told the Ministry of Justice IT conference at the QEII centre in London last month that all of us need to have more than one career skill available in this business. For some of us, there was of course a time before Microsoft ruled the earth. [17 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Why we write about the iPhone
Comment For us the more interesting thing about the iPhone is the way it has forced the mobile industry to change how it does business. I'm fed up with all the headlines about this device. Or am I missing the point - what does it do that a high-end Nokia... [17 Jul 2008]
10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone
Comment So a better text client is on our wish list - "designed by a European instead of a backward US perspective", in the words of silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane. Give us more colours - and more storage… [14 Jul 2008]
silicon.com old school
Comment But this ability to produce video put us alongside broadcasters in some people's eyes, which meant journalists got interviews with people who would not normally have had anything to do with such a new title. [07 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: The naked truth about DSL
Comment It's an increasingly attractive option around the world - Australian ISPs began offering it late last year for example, as do companies in the US and Europe. It might sound like something from the seedier side of the internet - but naked DSL might... [03 Jul 2008]
From CIO to consultant: Project manager or salesman?
Comment It could have broken us all but thankfully it has pulled us closer together. But everyone was very reasonable about it and after some negotiation we put together a phased plan that ticked enough boxes to get us a product to launch. [02 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is convergence a fiction?
Comment For about a decade now the established industry wisdom would have us believe technology is converging. Written on the London Liverpool Street to Stansted Express and dispatched via my home LAN later the same day. [02 Jul 2008]
¿Dónde está el iPhone 3G?
Comment It soon became clear that Steve Mark II had been meticulously briefed to tell us nothing we didn't already know. And a screening of the ad, still with a US voiceover, that will launch 3G iPhone on 11 July. [01 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Games skills gap, student outsourcing, ID card fears
Comment How about asking us? The games industry is the latest to suffer the dreaded skills gap - but who's to blame? Also attracting plenty of reader comment this week was the revelation that UK students are 'outsourcing' coursework to India. [27 Jun 2008]
Leading a horse to water
Comment Cut us in half and you should see citizens at the core in terms of focus - why we exist," he says. Driving through things like the tell-us-once programmes or the work we are doing on contact centres are all critically important and if you asked me... [23 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.06.08
Round-Up You may not get an expensive luke-warm cup of coffee-flavoured milk foam and jazz-lite soundtrack of your favourite coffee shop in the loo but it does at least guarantee some privacy while you work - unless we're talking US stalls where the doors... [20 Jun 2008]
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