economy trip
Win a luxury New Year's Eve package worth £1,000
News To celebrate Small Business Week, BT Business is offering one lucky silicon.com reader a trip to Edinburgh for the famous Hogmanay New Year's Eve celebrations. The agenda for the week was set by the results from the... [20 Oct 2009]
Secure Employee Mobility and the Need for Identity Assurance
White Paper Whether it is a sales representative or engineer dealing with a customer opportunity, someone traveling on a business trip, a person trying to extend their hours by working at home at night or on the weekend or perhaps a... [06 Oct 2009]
From CIO to consultant: The first month
Comment Here's how my recent trip to New York differed from my corporate trips. Luckily my brother is a pilot with Virgin so he got me a cheap flight from Heathrow to JFK otherwise it would have been an online trawl to find the... [20 Mar 2007]
Dan's China diary - day 21
Comment I'm shattered but I've a bit of time to kill so take a trip around the island. For in-depth coverage of this fact-finding trip inside China, including analysis and exclusive stories, click here. But... [30 Jun 2006]
Will's Web Watch: At the heart of web 2.0
Comment Will Sturgeon takes a trip to foggy California to find out. So, last month I spent two weeks in Silicon Valley, meeting people at the very beating heart of the internet economy. Is web 2.0 more than just... [12 May 2006]
Terrorists target India's offshore IT firms
News The security risks of offshoring IT and call centre services were discussed in this article last year following silicon.com's fact-finding trip to India. A high profile attack on Bangalore would be aimed at damaging... [08 Mar 2005]
Re:Viewing 2004: Outsourcing and offshoring
News The highlights, including an evening in Bangalore's thriving pubs packed with young Indian IT and call centre workers, can be found in the India diary account of the trip. On the back of this, silicon.com undertook its... [22 Dec 2004]
Napster gives free downloads to Sun readers
News The pair will be kicking off the download giveaway with a competition for one downloader to snag a trip to Napster LA HQ, with other prizes of Samsung and Rio Chiba music players, NTL broadband subscriptions and Napster... [22 Jul 2004]
Inside offshoring: Job losses and the backlash
Comment On a recent fact-finding trip to India to explore the offshore industry, silicon.com found that on the ground in India there is more concern with the US backlash than the UK, and the expectation is that once the US... [26 May 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: 24 hours in 2020
Comment Did you have the hassle of organising travel insurance for every trip? But if you lived in a city, you could afford to specialise with a vast customer choice linked to a global economy. While Europe... [11 Sep 2003]
Oh Canada - challenging in call centre offshoring
News For the same companies, India, Malaysia or the Philippines is probably a 15-hour trip. The relative cultural closeness of Canadians and US citizens is also a factor and despite it being a developed, highly educated... [14 Aug 2003]
Ebusiness Despatches: Confusing CRM with great customer service
Comment This would include a simple "How was your last trip to Nice? For a start, they flew economy class, at a cost of £250. Clearly, the customers in the middle - those flying BA economy -... [10 Apr 2002]
Tony Blair's speech in full... (part one)
News You are very welcome to the UK and I hope that you find your trip worthwhile - we are certainly grateful for your contributions to this debate. The key is to build on this - an economy based on... [19 Nov 2001]
John Lamb's week: E-marketers say show me the money
Comment Ed Peters, senior vice president and general manager of Merant DataDirect, has called off a trip to London to meet analysts and journalists today to discuss the announcement that Golden Gate Capital has bought the... [21 Sep 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Raving with SMS in Ibiza and Microsoft to dominate the web?
Comment Who is going to want their mobile device constantly informing them of every offer that may be of interest within a two mile boundary when they're just going out for the weekly shopping trip? Advertising budgets are one... [25 Jun 2001]