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News We've had the 'citizen journalist', blogging from war zones or capturing breaking news on their cameraphone. Now step forward the 'citizen developer' - an individual set to play an increasingly important role in creating business apps,... [23 Oct 2009]
Testing Testing: Anti-Malware Evaluation for the Enterprise
White Paper This paper, attempts to address a number of core issues such as Reading between the lines of comparative reviews, Anti-virus/malware against the world, Technical aspects of testing, Evaluating the evaluators: sound versus unsound... [20 Jun 2009]
Whitehall: DIY tech to protect against public service knife
News Radical public sector spending cuts could spur government into delivering services through citizen-created sites and web 2.0 technology, senior Whitehall figures have revealed. Public service spending will need to fall by £50bn by 2020... [11 Jun 2009]
Shocking iPods, netbooks and an offshoring backlash
News For those not blessed with a head for DIY telecoms engineering, this month saw news that BT is to double the speed at which it rolls out fibre to the cabinet - bringing faster broadband in reach of more than a million... [01 Jun 2009]
Businesses hunting for gold with data mining
News Meanwhile, UK-based DIY retail chain B&Q is using the SPSS technology to cut down stock loss which has been created by internal and external theft and process errors. With businesses gathering more data than ever before,... [15 May 2009]
Moon mobiles, Windows without Gates and DIY wi-fi signal boosting
News Click on the links in the grey box above to read the scoops of the year as we see it - from the prospect of having mobile phones in the hands of Lunar colonists, to silicon.com columnist Peter Cochrane's tips on DIY... [15 Dec 2008]
Web sales deliver the goods for Argos
News On the DIY side, the retailer said homebase.co.uk has reached £25m of annual sales: small beer compared to the online revenues of its sister company, but Home Retail Group said plans are in place to double the number of... [22 Oct 2008]
Brent Hoberman
AS Profile Still only 39, Hoberman's latest big thing is mydeco.com, a start-up he founded in 2007 which aims to do for DIY and furniture what he did for holidays with lastminute.com. Few could have begrudged Brent Hoberman quietly... [07 Oct 2008]
Online retail hasn't killed the high street
News There appears to be no gender difference in the amount of shoppers that favour such multi-channel shopping, with consumer electronics, followed by DIY, and clothing the most popular multi-channel purchases. [02 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.08.08
Round-Up The Round-Up has never been a big fan of DIY. But, perhaps to lure similar gadget-loving DIY-phobes, the Scandinavian purveyor of flat-packed boxes of delight, Ikea, has launched its own budget phone deal. [08 Aug 2008]
DIY wi-fi, Vista in disguise, 3G iPhone and more...
News One of the biggest stories in July was the launch of the 3G iPhone and silicon.com cast its eye over the eagerly anticipated device to see if it's any cop for businesses. And, showing that despite all the launch hype the iPhone is still... [31 Jul 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study The project was prompted by the acquisition of DIY retailer, Wickes. Travis Perkins has carried out a complete overhaul of its IT over the past year and as a result has a much more robust infrastructure with capacity to... [20 Jun 2008]
Rod Angwin
CIO Profile More recently he worked for Meyer International, now part of St Gobain, as group IT director before moving to DIY retail chain B&Q in the same role. As group CIO Rod Angwin is responsible for IT across Wolseley Group. [11 Jun 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo In the shop customers could access, for example, a list of items relating to a certain DIY project and then print out a shopping list. Fujitsu retail technology serves around 80 retailers and 16,000 stores across Europe,... [04 Jun 2008]
Next-Generation Mobility Tool for Retail: CA50 VoIP-Enabled Bar Code Scanner for Simple Voice and Data Tasks
White Paper With an ever-rising number of players - from online to super-centers, Do-It-yourself (DIy) stores, catalogs, discount chains and specialty stores - competition in retail is intense. Brick and mortar retailers struggle to... [31 May 2008]
