villain in comment and analysis
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Hollywood fears the geek
Comment For those of you that haven't seen Die Hard 4.0 - warning, spoilers ahead - the arch-villain turns out to be a computer programmer. So having a geek super-villain means Hollywood reckons a large proportion of the cinema-going public are now jealous... [18 Jul 2007]
Leader: Why green is good for your career
Leader The IT industry has long struggled to present a positive image to the rest of business - and now it risks being branded an eco-villain too. Research from analyst house Gartner has found the world's IT industry churns out as much carbon dioxide as... [30 Apr 2007]
India diary, day 3: Inside the outsourcing campus
Comment It's slightly strange to have all these amenities in this private world outside Hyderabad - the zoo in particular seems more in keeping with the lair of a Bond villain than a tech services company. Wednesday 7 February - Hyderabad [06 Mar 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.06.06
Round-Up Personally the Round-Up isn't (too) ashamed to admit that if it had Gates' money it would be living the life of an eccentric Bond villain on a personal island staffed entirely by a militia of beautiful women. [23 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.02.04
Round-Up The Villain Award was a three-horse race between VeriSign "for their presumption that they own the internet", the RIAA for its mismanaged file-sharing crackdown and Derek Wyatt MP "for lowering the level of informed debate on the internet... [20 Feb 2004]
Digital music: Where the 'good guys' are the villains of the peace
Comment The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was cast as the villain and it will never shake off that image. Napster was breaking the law. MP3.com was breaking the law. Kazaa is breaking the law. [10 Jul 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Who’ll do the dirty work?
Comment For a long while Railtrack was the villain of the piece. Narrowing your focus and outsourcing what you're not best at can only go so far, Martin Brampton argues this week. After all, shouldn't we always want to understand what we're buying? [10 Feb 2003]
Jail time for virus writers: Yes or No?
Comment A number of other reader comments we've received suggest the real villain of the piece is none other than Microsoft. News that a 22-year-old Welshman has been sentenced to two years in prison for creating and distributing three computer viruses has... [24 Jan 2003]
Kat Slater and the man from Microsoft
Comment Our villain was in fact a hero who'd caught the eye of our celeb. It's Christmas, which can only mean two things: over-full shops (go online, it's more fun) and tacky decoration-strewn high streets. Take Reading, for example, home of the Oracle... [29 Nov 2002]
High-tech VIPs and the silicon.com curse
Comment From the hero of the AirTouch and Mannesmann deals to villain in two years? But we must. As at least one other publication has noted, a place in our 'power 50' list has turned into a poisoned chalice (see http://www.silicon.com/2002as/top50_set.htm... [04 Sep 2002]
Why the ISPA Awards matter
Comment As the internet villain/hero categories at tonight's Oscars testify, the industry is all about influencing the regulation of ecommerce, driving the roll-out of broadband services, and ensuring internet users have a right to privacy and decent... [07 Feb 2001]
Telecoms deregulation - only fools rush in?
Comment Surely now is the time for conceding that BT is no longer the villain of the piece. Today it has proposed a regulation that will force the unbundling of the local loop by Christmas - six months earlier than the UK's Oftel and BT were anticipating. [12 Jul 2000]
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