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The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up The Round-Up's guessing the minister has already decided its press-friendly, vote-winner of a policy is good to go. Call it a miserable old cynic but The Round-Up's guessing the government won't lose too much sleep over unclaimed benefits.

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08

Round-Up And check out the latest episode of the Weekly Round-Up podcast. The HMRC has discussed 11 data security incidents involving customer information with the Information Commissioner's Office since April 2005, has stopped data transfers unless there...

Tags: iplayer, iphone, blackberry, vista

[02 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 25.04.08

Round-Up It's a rare old week when the Round-Up gets a chance to consider how the aphorisms of the father of modern lexicography come to bear on the life of the modern city worker - but this week is a welcome exception.

Tags: open source, zx spectrum, apple, london

[25 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.04.08

Round-Up And relax with your MP3 player of choice and the silicon.com Weekly Round-Up podcast. This week - a chance to help write your own gags for the Round-Up. Not willing to take the Round-Up's word for it?

Tags: microsoft, windows, google, broadband

[18 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.04.08

Round-Up Until next week, don't forget you can check out the other Weekly Round-Up by downloading the podcast, which this week features computers of yesteryear (go Amstrad CPC 464! For the record, the Round-Up thinks the word he was really after was 'drones'.

Tags: windows, yahoo, gordon brown, microsoft

[11 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08

Round-Up The Round-Up's aware of at least one enterprise search company that actually has something quite similar in its marketing collateral. Both companies put a fair bit of effort into the stunt - sign up to colonise Mars in a grand 100-year plan - which...

Tags: microsoft, apple, vista, hmrc

[04 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08

Round-Up Planes, trains and automobiles - the title of an amusing comedy flick starring Steve Martin is also a neat segue into the Round-Up's opening gambit, after a week gorging itself senseless on chocolate eggs and iPlayer programmes.

Tags: ofcom, wi-fi, train, plane

[28 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.03.08

Round-Up Until two weeks' time - yes, the Round-Up has a week off given that next Friday is a bank holiday - gorge yourself on chocolate eggs and check out the Weekly Round-Up podcast and pit your wits against fellow silicon.com readers in the caption...

Tags: web 2.0, iphone, airport, data breach

[14 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 07.03.08

Round-Up Even the Round-Up isn't that impressionable. The Round-Up, being the impressionable type, believes anything published on the internet. Clearly, this is a new application of the word 'excited' that the Round-Up was previously unaware of.

Tags: vista, microsoft, steve, battle

[07 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 29.02.08

Round-Up The Round-Up likes to imagine the 'complex choices' of the bumblebees might be something along the lines of: "That one's plastic, that one's plastic, so is that one. As the news sent shockwaves across the globe, the Round-Up was delighted to note...

Tags: microsoft, torvalds, robots, open source

[29 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08

Round-Up Don't forget you can also check out the Weekly Round-Up podcast here. It was the Round-Up's first thought. Like the Round-Up said: trustworthy computing. If the answer is yes, then the Round-Up has good news for you.

Tags: facebook, ebay, sp1, vista

[22 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08

Round-Up Until next week, don't forget you can check out the Weekly Round-Up podcast here. Again, pretty revolutionary stuff, the Round-Up is sure you'll agree. As well as a few actual iPhones, the Round-Up presumes.

Tags: microsoft, mobile, green, mobile world congress

[15 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 08.02.08

Round-Up Once again, after one too many cinnamon cappuccinos, the Round-Up is transported behind the scenes of this week's momentous events in Redmond and Mountain View, California to see what might have been…

Tags: microsoft, steve ballmer, google, yahoo

[08 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 01.02.08

Round-Up The Round-Up certainly would. The Round-Up added the bit about 'gits'). Let's take an analogy - and being a dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist the Round-Up's going to use the usual car analogy to differentiate between Macs and PCs.

Tags: hmrc, broadband, pc, windows

[01 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 25.01.08

Round-Up Until next week, be sure to check out the aural delights of the Weekly Round-Up podcast and enter our caption competition for a chance to win a bottle of bubbly. Does the Round-Up really need to point out that this is the latest in an increasingly...

Tags: laptop, mod, air, enter

[25 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08

Round-Up Until next week, check out the Weekly Round-Up podcast and win a prize in the caption competition. Now, most of the Round-Up's notifications are to do with challenges to reveal its inner chav, posts to its multimedia ultra-wall and invitations to...

Tags: iphone, mac, apple, macworld

[18 Jan 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Trying to explain

Comment Visit the Round-Up archive by clicking here - for the weekly R-Ups and podcasts. Written at my home in Suffolk UK and dispatched to silicon.com from the Wild Strawberry Café in Woodbridge which combines great coffee and cookies with free wi-fi

Tags: video, www, wi fi, talk

[14 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.01.08

Round-Up Until next week, take a moment to check out the Weekly Round-Up podcast. The Round-Up isn't going to pretend it was top-quality humour, though, in contrast to the product announcements, it was welcome refreshment.

Tags: ces, bill gates, microsoft, surface

[11 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.01.08

Round-Up The Round-Up likes to imagine this involved running (or driving? Not deterred, the Round-Up spent much of the festive period nibbling cuts of cold turkey and browsing RSS feeds looking for leads and was rather relieved when it found the technology...

Tags: vista, microsoft, new year, xp

[04 Jan 2008]

The End of Year Weekly Round-Up: 21.12.07

Round-Up Don't forget to check out the End of Year Round-Up podcast here… Google is heading up a consortium of organisations, including most of the major players in the global mobile industry. It didn't quite live up to the ‘wow’ expectations.

Tags: hmrc, 2007, ballmer, iphone

[21 Dec 2007]

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