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Inbox: iPhone, the Facebook generation and the IT skills shortage
Comment The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week.iPhone owners: would you miss your shiny toy if it went away? Proposed changes to the UK's... [17 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. The cynic in me thinks that a team that is not trained cannot find jobs... [28 Aug 2008]
The Naked CIO: Tech's weasel words
Comment Exclusive column: The Naked CIO But when they relate to effective and efficient services, they become excuses, stall tactics, containment or ways of deflecting attention from our failure to do our jobs... [04 Aug 2008]
Editor's Blog: Why we write about the iPhone
Comment I'd refer you to an excellent column by Natasha Lomas that lists the 10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone - with cut and paste and MMS high on the list, in case you were wondering. Photos: Apple flying high at... [17 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Enemies of the state
Comment Exclusive column: The Naked CIO We are losing jobs and devaluing talent because of growing offshore initiatives by companies the government is implicitly encouraging through its silence and inaction.... [14 Jul 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?
Comment Exclusive column: The Naked CIO Perhaps that is behind the growing obsession with celebrity, although the supply of jobs for celebrities must be somewhat limited. Confused IT skills policies in schools... [09 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays
Comment Exclusive column: The Naked CIO Never before in the history of mankind has so much processing been deployed to do such simple jobs as switching on a light, changing channels, increasing volume, adjusting... [16 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Animal farm
Comment Exclusive column: The Naked CIO It amazes me how Orwellian our jobs are. That's fine in principle, says the Naked CIO. But this must happen without ignorance, hierarchy and petty rivalries. We spend... [25 Mar 2008]
You won't get promoted looking like that
Comment Exclusive column: The Naked CIO Both groups reach points in their jobs when career progression becomes an issue. Technology specialists are unlikely to be promoted into the senior hierarchy based solely... [20 Mar 2008]
Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple
Comment It dominated column inches for the five months between its January announcement and US launch in late June. CEO Steve Jobs wrote a missive on green computing. In the first of two treatises he'd publish... [21 Dec 2007]
Stories of the year
News The Mac faithful were riled by our 10 worst things about Apple feature - before realising the top 10 best things about Steve Jobs and co column was not far behind in this two-part special. Apple's Steve... [14 Dec 2007]
From CIO to Consultant: Where did all this work come from?
Comment So when I read this comment on my last column asking how much of my work was as a result of having worked for CNET (the publisher of silicon.com), it made me wonder. Mike Barrett explains how he got his first paying... [22 Aug 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: There's no workplace like home
Comment My most recent Upwardly Mobile column dealt with environmental issues and how the big mobile operators and handset manufacturers are doing their bit - or otherwise - in 'greening' their business. Each team member will... [17 May 2007]
Stories of the month - February 2007
News Mac users were swearing into their skinny lattes as silicon.com reported on the 10 worst things about Apple - before realising the top 10 best of Steve Jobs and co column was not far behind in the... [28 Feb 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.02.07
Round-Up Except rather than going to all the bother of setting up a wiki we're going a bit low-tech and asking you to email us your plot, snippets of dialogue, sub-plots etc and the Round-Up will mash it together and create a reader-contributed... [09 Feb 2007]
