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iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment I received a text from O2 saying the 3G iPhone was available as I'd pre-ordered but going to the website it says it's out of stock. It seems seven days cant pass without the government giving our readers something to rant about… see why one reader... [15 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08
Round-Up Students have been letting rip on the website, condemning the plans as "illegal" and "creepy", with hardly any positive comments about the scheme. Highlights on the website include: "I'd rather emigrate or go to prison". [11 Jul 2008]
How many people will it take to fill Gates' shoes?
Comment In a new video interview posted to Microsoft's Channel 9 website on 23 June, Gates adds a third group to the list of those who will be filling his shoes after he leaves Microsoft as a full-time employee this month. [24 Jun 2008]
Yasmin Jetha
CIO Profile Her main role is to ensure the FT.com website is available 24/7 and to maintain the paper's links to 24 print sites around the globe so it can print up to seven editions per day. Yasmin Jetha was appointed CIO for the Financial Times (FT) in... [11 Jun 2008]
Paul Coby
CIO Profile During his stint in charge, the BA website has been overhauled with self service check-in now forming a large part of the customer experience with the airline, along with the fast bag drop process and an employee portal. [11 Jun 2008]
Gary Arthurs
CIO Profile Prior to joining the retailer, Arthurs, who has a marketing degree from Lancaster University, spent seven years at electrical retailer Comet as head of IT - with an IT remit covering its stores, warehouses, after sales centres, home delivery... [11 Jun 2008]
Rorie Devine
CIO Profile Scalability and availability were the two big challenges for Devine and his team and he was responsible for introducing processes and rigour that resulted in Betfair's platform and website becoming more stable and performing better. [11 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.06.08
Round-Up This week's thorny bone of contention, to mix a metaphor or two, is a report by UK fat pipe watcher and advice website thinkbroadband, which says the countryside still lags some way behind urban areas - contrary to last week's Ofcom report hailing... [06 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Migrant techies and BBC web budget busters…
Comment BBC warned after busting website budget I used to work at BBC Worldwide (BBC's commercial arm) and I always said to anyone who would listen that the BBCi website should have been under BBC Worldwide's control and be a commercial proposition, rather... [05 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.05.08
Round-Up Equally likely, he may have read it on Ofcom's website, which despite being admirably fast-loading, looks as if it were designed by a delegation of 12-year-old girls with a compulsive need to use pink at every conceivable opportunity. [30 May 2008]
Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user
Comment A recent description of the iPhone interface on the website of usability guru Bruce Tognazzini sums it up neatly for me. On the 10th anniversary of his Damascene conversion from the PC to the way of the Mac, Seb Janacek reflects on what it is that... [17 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment According to the Directgov website, "Identity theft affects more than 100,000 people every year" and victims are invariably ordinary people who are less likely to be aware the theft has happened or take swift action to deal with the problem until... [08 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.08
Round-Up It's only gone and bought social networking website Bebo in an $850m cash deal, hasn't it? Even with this fob-off, there are to date hundreds of apps available for download from the Apple website. It's difficult to know what to make of AOL these days. [14 Mar 2008]
Retail leaders will open up in tough times
Comment Carphone now has a website that shows customers a warts-and-all view of his broadband business, a step-child that his customer services team didn't want in the family at first. An icy wind is blowing through the high street. [13 Mar 2008]
How fans can grab a slice of the music pie
Comment Courtier-Dutton: Essentially we turn every user on the website into a fully fledged record label. Slicethepie has been running since June 2007 and gives music fans the opportunity to review new music and finance the bands they want to make it big. [18 Feb 2008]
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