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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.03.09
Round-Up Following last week's story about the muck that resides inside your keyboard (if you'd managed to expunge the memory, the Round-Up is happy to remind you that beard hair and crumbs are among the least unpleasant of the... [20 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.03.09
Round-Up Nail clippings, crisps, pastry crumbs, chewing gum and beard hair are some of the detritus that lurks within the average office keyboard. One sign (in case you needed any more) that we are wading through the murky depths... [13 Mar 2009]
"You can always tell if they eat salt and vinegar"
News Nail clippings, crisps, pastry crumbs, chewing gum and beard hair are some of the disagreeable detritus that accumulates inside the average office keyboard, according to Claire Burke, director of Keep IT Clean, an IT... [11 Mar 2009]
Thus takes the biscuit with Burton's network deal
News Burton's Foods, the biscuit maker behind the likes of Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels, will be getting a new communications infrastructure later this year. The company will be moving onto Thus' next-generation network following the... [04 Mar 2009]
Roasted laptops, fighting panthers and fishing accidents
News A routine house clean went awry when a flash drive was sucked-up together with food crumbs by a vacuum cleaner. The top 10 data blunders of 2008, compiled by data recovery firm Kroll Ontrack, have seen people across the... [04 Dec 2008]
Photos: Is this the next generation of mini laptops?
Photo Chipmaker Qualcomm has been showing off a prototype touchscreen laptop-to-tablet powered by its 3G Snapdragon chipset, which it claims will enable a new generation of always-on, low-power mobile computing devices ready to rock the mobile... [03 Dec 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday
Comment Crumbs. Long tails. I arrive at the Fira early to struggle through the be-suited throng and get my seat at the big name keynotes. Not early enough, however, to claim a space on the main floor. The overflow gets rerouted... [13 Feb 2008]
Is dirty hardware making you sick?
News Take a look at your keyboard. Is last week's lunch still decorating the space bar? What about your phone? Does the earpiece look as greasy as a spoon in a truckers' café? Office equipment harbours millions of germs - with telephones,... [29 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Mobile TV
Cheat Sheet Crumbs. What's all this about mobile TV then? Is that when I download clips onto my phone? People falling over, pop videos, stuff like that? Mobile TV means video content that's either streamed or broadcast direct to... [22 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Social networking
Cheat Sheet Crumbs. Social networking - that's where you stand around chatting to people and eating canapés? Not quite. If traditional networking means mingling with like-minded people, swapping contact details and making... [15 Jun 2007]
UK broadband locked in big boys' grip
News Despite Ofcom's best efforts to encourage competition, it seems the big names are still dominating the UK broadband market. According to a new report from broadband analyst group Point Topic, the top ten broadband suppliers have nearly... [30 Jun 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Google goes head-to-head with Microsoft
Comment Intel makes money with its near monopoly on chips, component makers have to struggle for profits and the major PC builders get such meagre crumbs that most of them have seriously considered quitting the market at least... [20 Dec 2005]
EMEA mobile shipments up 52 per cent
News That left single-digit crumbs to rival phone makers such as Sony Ericsson and Siemens. Shipments of mobile voice and data gadgets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa rose a whopping 52 per cent year over year in the... [22 Jul 2004]
IT buying: All change, the bosses are on board
News Today, senior executives agree the strategic objectives", he said, leaving the consultants the relative crumbs of overseeing implementation. IT buying - five years ago, it was all so different. The techies could spend... [28 Jan 2004]
AOL hopes to secure a seat on the broadbandwagon
News AOL so far has picked up only crumbs as its share in the growing broadband pie. AOL hopes the launch of a new product aimed at users who want broadband services will help it retain its 34 million dial-up account members. [31 Mar 2003]
