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Editor's Blog: Global winners
Comment Tech Hotspots: The list 1. I'm pleased - if to be honest a little surprised - that London made it so far up the list. While Silicon Valley may be in first place this year, it's also a reflection of how the technology world is evolving that China... [05 Jun 2008]
Google - the best workplace in the UK
News Google topped the list of the 50 best workplaces in the UK, compiled by research and management consultancy The Great Place to Work Institute, which uses employee surveys to evaluate the level of trust between staff and their employers - so it's... [28 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008… ¦ Video: CIO Agenda 2008 ¦ Naked CIO: The true cost of IT ¦ Why IT must escape the belt-tightening ¦ Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities ¦ Recession fears hit IT... [28 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: Goodbye silicon.com - and thanks
Comment I can reel off a list of facts and achievements (you might not refer to them as that) like I just have but my gut instinct is that silicon.com has kept on progressing, kept on saying what it thinks (who does write that damn Weekly Round-Up? [08 Nov 2007]
Editor's Blog: Ranking everything
Comment If this list (see grey box below) considered green credentials, who'd come out top? And it's a fun game, too, one that makes us think. It wasn't dominated by big tech and internet names - think Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook. [13 Sep 2007]
IVR: the Endangered Species
White Paper The 21st century has pushed IVR, once popular as a call center technology designed to help streamline customer contacts, onto the endangered list. Speech recognition is replacing the DTMF interfaces - the infuriating press-this-number-then-this... [06 Aug 2007]
Summer slowdown bad for IT projects
News The silicon.com CIO50 2007 ¦ CIO50: Who's on the list? Then we drop our financial year end in the middle of it - 31 July - just to add to the fun and we also get many of our top managers either leaving or joining at the same time. [03 Aug 2007]
Freecycle Diaries: Desperately seeking boxes
Comment And browsing my local group's message list it's clear how the movement is a jumble-sale of gestures - the friendly ones, the hopeful ones, the somewhat leftfield ones. Not my idea of fun. Welcome to the second instalment of the Freecycle Diaries... [16 Apr 2007]
Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer
Comment On his list are some new things, such as new models for computer programming, as well as some old things such as his long-standing dream of a new, unified file-storage system for Windows. Many people, when they are looking to move on, the hard... [16 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet: E-government deadlines
Cheat Sheet The list of services is likely to grow as time rolls on. Fun things on offer include bill paying, tax filing and getting information on bin collections. E-government? Sounds like a clubber's dream come true. [01 Dec 2005]
Virus alert: Sober trio in the wild
News But the attachments can be recognized by their names: Exceltab-packed_List.exe; Liste.zip and Reg-List-Dat_Packer2.exe; reg_text.zip Word-Text.zip; Word-Text_packedList.exe; and Word-Text_packedList.zip. [16 Nov 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.04.05
Round-Up Top of the list from the past seven days was our story, alongside more serious offerings from a number of other (dare we say lesser? 'It's all fun and games until somebody loses an eye. A joke can go too far. [08 Apr 2005]
Sir Tim gets 'best Brit' gong
News At a ceremony held in central London last night and attended by politicians and celebrities from all walks of life, Berners-Lee claimed the top gong among a list of 2004 award winners which included double gold medal winning Olympian Dame Kelly... [28 Jan 2005]
Harry Potter sweeps away online competition
News The next Harry Potter book has just been announced, and it's rocketed - or perhaps broomsticked - to both number one (the standard edition) and number two (the "adult" edition) on Amazon.co.uk's best-seller list, with the standard edition also... [23 Dec 2004]
Lycos kills off its anti-spam zombies
News At the point of time of the Netcraft measurement on December 1st, 2004, both spam servers were not on the target list of the screensaver. The controversial attempt to attack spammers by bombarding their websites with traffic from thousands of... [07 Dec 2004]
