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silicon.com Classics: The 10 craziest uses of RFID
News The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive from the last decade is a look at the 10 best, worst and just plain crazy uses of radio frequency ID (RFID) tags. [02 Jul 2008]
Techies kept awake at night
News Click here to browse the full archive of our photo stories. IT workers suffer more sleepless nights than most other professionals in the UK. Exhausted techies are getting by on just six hours and 30 minutes sleep per night, putting them at number... [01 Jul 2008]
National Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?
News At least I do have contacts and past email addresses from my archive. In honour of National Work from Home Day, the silicon.com team stayed out of the office to find out just how easy it is to do your job remotely. [16 May 2008]
silicon.com Classics: The best of Google Earth
News The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive from the last decade is a photo tour of the best of Google Earth - from burning oil fields, to topless sunbathers and Area 51. [22 Apr 2008]
silicon.com Classics: A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side
News The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive is a handy photo guide to London's wi-fi pubs, from Dirty Dicks in the heart of the city on Bishopsgate to The Henry Addington out in Canary Wharf. [09 Apr 2008]
silicon.com Classics: 10 weird uses for an iPod
News Most people are happy to use their iPod for listening to tunes and watching the occasional video, but the latest in our weekly look back through the classic stories in the silicon.com archive is a story about unusual uses for the Apple device. [03 Apr 2008]
silicon.com Classics: 10 hard drive disasters
News The latest in our weekly look back through the classic stories of the last decade in the silicon.com archive is a story about some of the most bizarre ways people have accidentally destroyed computer hard drives. [28 Mar 2008]
silicon.com Classics: The iPod and BlackBerry lost property mountain
News The latest in our weekly look back through the classic stories of the last decade in the silicon.com archive is a peek inside the lost property depot of Transport for London to see where all the iPods, BlackBerrys and mobile phones left by... [05 Mar 2008]
silicon.com Classics: 30 tips for better business travel
News The latest in our weekly look back through the classic stories of the last decade in the silicon.com archive is a feature on how to make business travel more bearable. The silicon.com editorial staff, along with help from some of our expert... [25 Feb 2008]
silicon.com Classics: The Peeping Tom phone filter
News The latest in our weekly look back through the classic stories of the last decade in the silicon.com archive is a mobile phone camera that gives the user more of an eyeful than they bargained for. The stuff of teenage boys' dreams was made reality... [20 Feb 2008]
Happy 10th birthday Mozilla - there's a bug in your cake
News Following the notification of the flaw by vulnerability researcher Gerry Eisenhaur, Snyder confirmed the flaw would affect users who had installed "flat" Firefox extensions - add-ons, such as Download Statusbar and Greasemonkey - that do not store... [25 Jan 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News The university admissions body Ucas trialled software that checks university applications against its archive to make sure applicants aren't copying material available via the web.applicants were found to have plagiarised other sources within... [19 Dec 2007]
Leopard users get 'blue screen of death'
News Apple has since posted a fix for the problem on its support website, suggesting users perform an "archive and install" installation of the upgrade, which relocates all existing Mac OS X system files into a folder labelled "previous system". [29 Oct 2007]
Arctic tech gets sub-zero test
News Click here to browse the full archive of our photo stories. Its main functions are to archive data, read data cards from the cameras and bio-data sources, handle compressed webcam images in real-time and feed data files to the six Iridium modems. [26 Oct 2007]
Sun's Schwartz bets on storage
News Tape, with effective indexing and retrieval, represents the most economically responsible (that is, eco-responsible) archive platform for long-term storage. Broadly speaking, tape (and, in the future, other forms of removable media) are a core part... [03 Oct 2007]
