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RSS dot in newsOnline shopping reaches £4.8bn
News Online shopping revenues in the UK rose, month-on-month, by 11 per cent to £4.8bn in July. According to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index the amount spent online rose, despite a shrink in disposable income, to the equivalent of £79 for... [20 Aug 2008]
Happy 10th birthday, silicon.com
News Launched back on 6 July 1998 with a party at London's Natural History Museum - a dig at the print dinosaurs it has now replaced - the publication weathered the storms following the dot-com boom to take its place as the leading destination for... [07 Jul 2008]
IT contractors upbeat about work
News Unlike during the last recession, which was so inextricably linked to the dot-com boom and bust, this time around IT is at the very heart of every successful business. IT contractors are upbeat about job prospects despite talk of a recession in the... [20 Feb 2008]
Google invests in web to fight disaster
News He said: "We can send an SMS message onto Google Earth in an emergency centre, and it sees a dot with a colour-coded response, with my name and date. Google.org's technology project to help save lives in the event of natural disasters or public... [17 Jan 2008]
AOL pulls plug on Netscape browser
News Netscape was key to making the world wide web useful and the company's initial public offering is considered the beginning of the dot-com boom. The Netscape web browser has long since been eclipsed by its Firefox offshoot but AOL has announced it's... [02 Jan 2008]
Top 10 skills stories of the year
News Dreams of dot-com glory. There may have been rumbles of economic discontent but nothing could dampen the hopes of dot-com start-up workers who, gripped by the promise of web 2.0-fuelled wealth, were apparently happy to forego up to a third of their... [17 Dec 2007]
Contractors choose lifestyle over money
News A recent study by the Association of Technology Staffing Companies found strong demand for contractors skilled in Bluetooth and dot-mobi tools that allow websites to be tailored for mobile devices, as well as in the middleware technologies that... [20 Nov 2007]
Web 2.0 techies sacrifice pay for shares
News More than 75 per cent of candidates joining dot-com start-ups through IT staffing company ReThink Recruitment have foregone up to a third of their salary in exchange for shares. Two years ago just 10 per cent of workers did the same but the level... [13 Nov 2007]
The Sun rises on dot-mobi
News Red top newspaper The Sun has launched a version of its site on the dot-mobi domain. According to dotMobi, which runs the domain, The Sun is the first national newspaper to launch a version of its site optimised for downloading on a mobile device... [24 Oct 2007]
Tougher times ahead for social networks
News However, while Datamonitor likens the current hype and excitement around social networking to the heady days of the dot-com boom, it said there is anxiety as well - warning that investors are pulled in two directions. [19 Oct 2007]
Skills crisis? What skills crisis?
News He blamed the end of the dot-com boom "in IT attractiveness" for a drop in the number of graduates, and said new technologies make it much easier to integrate teams working around the world. The UK is not heading for a tech skills crisis, despite... [15 Oct 2007]
UK tech skills crisis 'exaggerated'
News He said: "One explanation is that since 1998/99 the IT industry has benefited from a dot-com bubble of attractiveness that peaked in 2002/03, and is now past its high point. The UK is not suffering from an IT skills crisis despite the falling... [11 Oct 2007]
Social networking driving server sales
News Sun has been bringing virtualisation into its business for the past few years to help it build revenue, after struggling in the post-dot-com crash period. Social networking is pushing up server sales despite the increasing adoption of... [04 Oct 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News The email, which contained no body text, included a dot-SCR screen saver dummy file within an executable RTF file, the spokeman said. Security vendor MesssageLabs reported that 1,100 emails containing malware-infected RTF attachments have been... [26 Sep 2007]
DoS attack could shut down the net
News Denial of service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth is being added to the internet, according to VeriSign, the company that administers the dot-com domain. Criminal groups selling services online are increasingly threatening the fabric of... [26 Sep 2007]
