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Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more...
Photo One of the biggest news stories this month was the launch of the 3G iPhone. Here he demonstrates his weightlifting skills with Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey in a video shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. [30 Jun 2008]
LiMo targets the business mobile
News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here… Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view... [15 May 2008]
O2 woos SMEs with broadband deal
News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here… Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view... [01 May 2008]
iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...
News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here… Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view... [30 Apr 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Latest photo stories from silicon.com Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on enterprise systems and would not be able to make such a product profitably. [21 Apr 2008]
Yahoo! tests the Google route to advertising bliss
News Latest photo stories from silicon.com In a statement, Herb Kohl, chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, said: "We will be following closely the results of the short-term test alliance between Yahoo! [10 Apr 2008]
Tesco Mobile users hungry for ads
News Check out silicon.com's latest mobile photo stories here… Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photos: Bling up your BlackBerry Photos: When art meets tech - Nokia phone Morphs into view... [09 Apr 2008]
Microsoft touches the Surface of AT&T
News Latest photo stories from silicon.com And, although Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said he wants the consumer version of Surface speeded up, Thompson said he also wants to make sure the company doesn't disappoint its earliest customers, who are... [02 Apr 2008]
eSure creates customer 'information hub'
News Latest photo stories from silicon.com As well as providing better customer information to eSure's marketing and frontline sales staff, the system will reduce duplication in data and, as a result, reduce storage costs.eSure is using a master data... [26 Mar 2008]
IBM's latest Lotus targets mobile mash-ups
News Latest photo stories from silicon.com IBM has released a new version of its Lotus Expeditor software, which is targeted at mobile application developers building both business and consumer web 2.0 mash-ups. [26 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: If you want to know about Microsoft-Yahoo!...
Comment It's great fun to get out and tell a different audience what our take on these big stories is. Of course, it's just another reflection of how much a part of everyday life these once esoteric technologies have become and how deep and wide the... [12 Feb 2008]
Stories of the month - January 2008
News Stories of the month - January 2008 Click on the links below to read the stories everyone is talking about. Staffing issues also dominated one of the biggest stories of the month when plans by oil giant Shell to outsource its IT to AT&T, EDS and T... [30 Jan 2008]
Top 10 financial services stories of the year
News The top 10 financial services stories of the year: This is one of many stories this year on the adoption of the MiFID, which is an effort to standardise the way transactions are recorded, so that banks can work easily across national borders. [17 Dec 2007]
2010: UK dial-up's dying days
News Although the UK is falling compared to its peers in terms of speed, availability is one of the great British success stories. Most of the remaining dial-up connections are likely to be down to consumer "inertia" rather than a lack of broadband... [26 Nov 2007]
CIO Essentials: MS licensing, Tesco CIO and online shopping
News Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. If you are a UK-based IT director or CIO and would like to take part in the CIO Essentials series by choosing your top five stories of... [20 Nov 2007]
