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Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT
News 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 diams... [09 May 2008]
Childnet helps parents get web savvy
Case Study 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 diams... [08 May 2008]
The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics
News 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 diams... [08 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment Exclusive column: The Naked CIO The Naked CIO: The true cost of IT The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty The Naked CIO: Cut the bull [24 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The one-box generation
Comment Exclusive column: The Naked CIO The Naked CIO: Shadow of the job axe The Naked CIO: Boadroom stereotypes The Naked CIO: IT staff disloyalty The Naked CIO: Cut the bull The Naked CIO: Animal farm The Naked CIO: Offshore - or off their trolley? [26 Mar 2008]
Careless homeworkers increase security risks
News That view of increased security risks is backed by 10 of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel, along with silicon.com's new Naked CIO columnist. A survey by Cisco this week found a lack of discipline and vigilance among home workers on... [08 Feb 2008]
How to give tech to those on less than $1 a day
Comment The Naked CIO But this tends to affect those on more formal licence agreements or in more affluent areas, whereas for qualifying governments purchasing Windows-based PCs, Partners in Learning provides a full stack of Windows XP Starter Edition... [07 Feb 2008]
The Naked CIO: Time to wage war on home users
Comment Why do we provide PCs and internet connectivity for staff who from time to time want to connect to the office from home? This means for a sensible and best practice policy to prevail I must stealthily construct an iron-clad case to reclaim company... [04 Feb 2008]
The best of 2007
News Vista, Leopard, open source, SaaS, naked PCs and more… The world of tech in 2007 was dominated by some massive product launches in the shape of Apple's iPhone and Microsoft's Window's Vista. See below for 2007's top stories in the worlds of mobile... [24 Dec 2007]
Stories of the year
News Naked PCs: The naked truth Unsurprisingly, the 'chip and bin' story generated a lot of reader comments.silicon.com readers also had their say this year on PCs sold without an operating system - or 'naked PCs' - but the idea doesn't appear to be... [14 Dec 2007]
Top 10 software stories of the year
News Following a European think tank's recommendation that PCs should be sold without a pre-installed OS, silicon.com readers made their point on so-called 'naked PCs'. Naked PCs: The naked truth And, ironically, with several big OS launches in 2007... [14 Dec 2007]
Stories of the month - October 2007
News This month Vista, The IT Crowd, wi-fi and naked PCs all proved a hit with silicon.com readers. Naked PCs: The naked truth Talking of big brands, McDonald's announced plans to roll out a free wi-fi service in its 1,200 UK outlets in an effort to... [31 Oct 2007]
Naked PCs: The naked truth
News A European think tank's recent recommendation that computers should be sold without an OS - so called 'naked PCs' - in order to tackle Microsoft's dominant position and foster competition in the OS marketplace has got silicon.com readers fired up. [02 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.09.07
Round-Up Not content with shafting Microsoft in a landmark ruling last week over the company's anti-competitive behaviour, the EC is now rubbing salt in the wounds by giving due consideration to a report by an influential think tank calling for naked PCs. [28 Sep 2007]
Are 'naked PCs' cheaper for businesses?
News Three-quarters of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT director panel have now backed that call for naked PCs, although the argument is far from straightforward. Carl Whitehead, IT director at Betbrokers, said naked PCs without an OS would probably... [27 Sep 2007]
