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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Eating your own dog food
Comment All I can say to designers is that you can learn an awful lot about your own fallibilities and misconceptions very quickly by suffering at you own hand. How do so many of them get it so very badly wrong? [14 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08
Round-Up Hand on heart, the Round-Up did not make that last bit up. So another April Fool's Day has come and gone and once again Google has spent a fair amount of its annual marketing and engineering budget on a series of badly disguised japes. [04 Apr 2008]
Apple fattens its Touch and iPhone dials in more gigs
News On one hand, people want the iPhone so badly, they are willing to take risks to use it on another network or country. On the other hand, it's almost impossible to get a true number of how many phones have been unlocked. [05 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Apple vs Vista, jail for mobile users and the broadband swindle…
Comment This seems to be getting a little out of hand. If you can be jailed for holding a mobile, then you should also be for smoking, changing radio stations and anything else that requires the use of one hand off the wheel. [03 Jan 2008]
Online Investing Hacks: Get Out of Debt Before Debt Takes It Out of You
White Paper When things get really out of hand, one might end up borrowing money to buy food and that will simply end badly. Without debt, it would be tough to buy a house or the first car. Not many of us can rack up $100,000, $200,000, or more to buy a house... [17 Oct 2007]
Dan's China diary - day 14
Comment I wouldn't mind betting he's had a hand in that. But it didn't really hit that badly here. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most interesting tech and business stories. [23 Jun 2006]
DTI: Businesses are getting serious about security
News Michael said: "We may now have got on top of the problems of the late 1990s, when virus writers got the upper hand over us. UK businesses have made significant progress over the past two years towards tightening up the security of their IT systems... [26 Apr 2006]
Leader: Technology with a human face
Leader Machiavelli wasn't wrong when he wrote there is "nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success" than to lead in the introduction of new things. Change is always hard - and if badly designed... [09 Feb 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Conflicting messages
Comment The trend towards outsourcing on the one hand, the requirement to align IT with the business on the other. Persistently poor outcomes strongly suggest that the contract is badly constructed, is being badly managed, or perhaps both. [22 Nov 2005]
ID card plans slammed by MPs
News The select committee is so concerned that it is requesting government be given extra powers to make sure the ID card plans don't get out of hand. A Home Affairs select committee report due to be published tomorrow is expected to condemn David... [29 Jul 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The ever-evolving virus
Comment It is almost like having the hand of God remotely tweaking the genetic pool of a life form to speed up evolution. This means we have a little time in hand to get protection measures in place. But my impression is that the industry is behind the... [20 May 2004]
Dell takes PC number one spot - again
News We're very pleased with the international growth that came out of it, particularly the European growth.and also growth in Asia as well," said Neil Hand, director of worldwide enterprise marketing for Dell. [16 Apr 2004]
Offshoring to India doesn't mean clueless call centres
News Indeed, one of the conclusions drawn from this week's debate, which featured Nasscom, the DTI, the union Amicus, India-based research company Evalueserve and other experts, is that training and offshoring must go hand in hand. [12 Mar 2004]
Leader: Who do you think you are?
Leader Technology can help - as PKI and authentication beyond the humble password will show us - but on the other hand, politicians and bosses must realise it is not an answer in itself. So it was that by the autumn one of the biggest stories, even in... [04 Dec 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Taking risks
Comment Government, on the other hand, cannot go into liquidation. All the same, these factors conspire to leave the corporate sector with pretty flimsy financial safeguards if things start to go badly wrong. [03 Mar 2003]
