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White Paper The second in the 'Understanding and teaching.series, this paper is designed to both educate those who are not familiar with the topic or have misconceptions, and at the same time to present effective methods to take a technical topic... [12 Nov 2009]
Could hackspaces hold the key to business innovation?
Comment There's a new type of tech geek emerging. Where to look for the next wave of corporate innovation? It might just come from renegade geeks, says Richard Leyland. They have proved their mettle in collaborative... [14 Oct 2009]
Barack Obama
AS Profile He solidified his geek-cred with his fight to hold onto his beloved BlackBerry so he could continue sending and receiving emails. US President Barack Obama entered the White House with a pledge to use technology to... [08 Oct 2009]
Stephen Fry
AS Profile While Martha Lane Fox may be the government's digital inclusion champion, broadcaster, comedian, blogger and all-round geek, Stephen Fry would doubtless take the people's choice category. Fry gets his place on the... [30 Sep 2009]
Time for businesses to open up - or else
Comment From humble geek beginnings, the open source and free software movements have steadily eroded the dominance of paid-for software to the point where consumers now expect many applications and basic online services to be... [03 Sep 2009]
There's just one problem with tablets: No one wants them
Comment I love beautiful and elegant tech toys as much as any other geek but geek love isn't enough to make a real market. Rumours have it Apple is a month away from announcing a tablet computer. Another tablet,... [05 Aug 2009]
Hardware Home Pages: Master Your Devices With Device Stage
White Paper One don't have to be a gadget geek to know that it can be hard to get a mobile phone, music player, or other device to work smoothly with computer. How do one sync contacts and appointments to mobile phone? [31 Jul 2009]
Photos: 10 useful Android apps
Photo This app lets car lovers track their petrol usage down to the last penny and then geek out over fuel economy charts and graphs. So did silicon.com's Natasha Lomas - and over the next 10 pages you can find more info on... [12 May 2009]
Minority Report: iPhone 3.0 promises geek nirvana
Comment What will Apple's new mobile phone software offer? Seb Janacek places his bets. Later today, Apple will offer a sneak preview of the next major iteration of the iPhone's software.iPhone 3.0 is exciting because it promises to offer iPhone... [17 Mar 2009]
IT Analysis - Sustained Disruption
White Paper Some of them are seen coming a mile off; the shift from the use of the internet as a research collaboration tool to one of transactional commerce was fairly obvious once HTML took the geek out of the game of browse and... [01 Mar 2009]
The Boss' Guide to Geek Speak: Do You Speak Geek?
White Paper This paper aims to decipher the jargon, converting it to real business contexts, enabling one to not only understand what is being asked for, and how much it will all cost, but fully comprehend why it is needed. [12 Feb 2009]
The eight hot mobile techs to watch
News Analyst house Gartner has named the technologies it believes will play a significant role in shaping the mobile landscape over the next two years. With the rise of Apple's iPhone, and other newbie entrants such as Google's Android OS... [28 Jan 2009]
Editor's Blog: Techie slang escapes the server room
Comment Another piece of slang that techies use for the same purpose is Picnic - 'problem in chair, not in computer'.meanwhile, is now apparently a common term for clueless, derived from the now little-seen '404 Not Found', error message; while... [11 Dec 2008]
Gmail 'vulnerability' a phishing scam instead
News The alleged vulnerability reportedly allowed an attacker to set up filters on users' email accounts without their knowledge, according to a proof of concept posted Sunday at the blog Geek Condition. In the post,... [26 Nov 2008]
Naked CIO: Bring down IT salaries
Comment We also need to expose the breadth of opportunities in IT beyond the purely technical and educate the country that you do not need to be a geek in order to prosper within the IT sector. Sky-high salaries are giving the... [24 Nov 2008]
