consumers this week
Editor's Blog: The naked truth about DSL
Comment But if naked DSL were widely adopted in the UK, the incumbent service providers would lose some revenue, both from those consumers who decide they can do without a landline at all and from those who would migrate to VoIP services over their... [03 Jul 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment Investors and consumers are demanding reductions in carbon footprints and employees are asking for more time with their family and less spent in transit. There are also greater pressures than ever on companies to make decisions today rather than... [30 Jun 2008]
Virtualisation key to staff-owned devices
News Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk last week, Gartner analyst Brian Gammage said that, increasingly, portable-technology consumers are identifying with particular devices and brands, in much the same way as a car is seen as a fashion... [30 Jun 2008]
WiMax Forum stamps 2.5G products with seal of approval
News To ensure interoperability for global operators and consumers, the WiMax Forum supports the end-to-end certification process, from equipment development to test equipment validation and, finally, product certification. [20 Jun 2008]
Minority Report: The 3G iPhone has landed
Comment The cheaper prices struck at the heart of the main criticism of the iPhone since its June 2007 launch, with prices slashed to make the phone more palatable to a larger proportion of consumers. Some Apple watchers got themselves overexcited in the... [13 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment Another kick in the teeth for us consumers. The so-called skills slump in the UK has attracted a lot of attention this week, with many readers blaming the education system and outsourcing for the drought. [22 May 2008]
Asus dives into instant Linux
News Consumers want to turn their PCs on and off like any other appliance, and Express Gate has made that possible. Last week, DeviceVM, the company behind the distribution, said the hardware manufacturer would be putting Splashtop - which Asus calls... [19 May 2008]
RIM co-CEO: Qwerty is the next big thing
Comment And then as it became easier to manage, as it came down in price, as it became more ergonomic what happened was all these businesspeople, who're also consumers - when they saw it available in the store, for a price that they can have it in their... [16 May 2008]
Microsoft's next plan: Make over Live Search
News The company has struggled to make headway in search, particularly in the area of being the place that consumers go for general web queries. The company said in a statement: "Live Search is on a fall/spring release cycle, and we will gradually roll... [08 May 2008]
Ballmer: Windows XP may live and breathe for longer
News Ballmer said most consumers are choosing to buy Vista, the current version of Windows. Some to get Vista SP1 this week Earlier this month, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates indicated that Windows 7 could come within the next year in some form... [24 Apr 2008]
UK online spend up 50 per cent this year
News UK consumers spent £13bn online in the first three months of this year, the equivalent to £213 for every person in the country. A whopping £850m was spent online in the week of the Easter holidays alone. [22 Apr 2008]
Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers
News A parliamentary statement read: "[The European Parliament] underlines that on the battle against digital piracy, the solution should not be to criminalise consumers who do not intend to make profit out of their actions. [14 Apr 2008]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News Barrett equated the current situation in educating consumers to the early years of the car industry when the benefits of rules of the road and safety had not been fully realised. Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week... [11 Apr 2008]
Call to increase online data protection for teens
News The FTC has suggested the industry regulate itself by disclosing to consumers any intention to collect information about them for the purpose of targeting ads, and obtaining their consent to do so, among other rules. [10 Apr 2008]
Google pledges 'wi-fi on steroids'
News Google has said it plans to have US consumers from Manhattan to rural North Dakota surfing the web on handheld gadgets at gigabits-per-second speeds by 2009. The company had been active in the event, lobbying beforehand for "open-access" conditions... [25 Mar 2008]
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