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RSS hand in newsAre sat-navs causing havoc on the roads?
News Sat-navs not only drive motorists to distraction, they've also been driving silicon.com readers to rage following a recent story concerning the devices. According to a survey, the in-car gadgets are more trouble than they're worth, causing drivers... [24 Jul 2008]
Online retail takes 20p of the shopper's pound
News We will be looking to cut the clutter from stores, which may mean less products on show, but with staff on hand who are able to give better service. Online shopping is poised to take 20p out of every UK consumer pound by the end of the year, a... [18 Jul 2008]
Users' privacy wins in YouTube vs Viacom
News The move comes after a federal court earlier this month ordered Google-owned YouTube to hand over usernames, IP addresses and viewing histories to Viacom - parent company of MTV. YouTube will be allowed to mask important user information from... [15 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G sales hit one million mark
News Despite the outages, shortages, and related hand-wringing associated with last Friday's iPhone 3G launch and Thursday's release of the iPhone 2.0 firmware, Apple says there were nevertheless 10 million downloads from its new App Store in its first... [14 Jul 2008]
Old browsers at risk from attack
News The authors provided an example of a browser that displayed in red in the upper-right-hand corner: "145 days expired, three updates missed. A group of researchers have said 637 million web users are surfing with outdated internet browsers and are... [03 Jul 2008]
The 'multi-component' malware threat
News On the other hand, there are more avenues to counter the threat; attacks can be thwarted by blocking any one of the components involved, noted Ducklin. In other words, the next security threat that hits your organisation could be a keylogger... [02 Jul 2008]
Offshoring: India still number one
News On the other hand, the investment into Beijing's infrastructure and the environment for the upcoming Olympic Games has sharpened the city's competitive edge, she added. Bangalore has retained its position as the ideal global delivery location for... [27 Jun 2008]
Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford
News On the other hand, she said others may remember a "ruthless competitor who got away with a lot of illegal monopolistic behaviour". During his career Gates has made Microsoft into one of the biggest companies in the world with products that have... [25 Jun 2008]
NHS data left lacking encryption
News CfH said the DoH had simply sought an assurance that the process was in hand by the end of March. A number of health trusts are expected to be months late meeting a target to encrypt all data on non-secure machines by 31 March. [24 Jun 2008]
Oracle pumps up prices, BEA takes the hit
News The "game", said Governor, is the trade-off between price rises on the one hand and deep price discounts on the other. The company's core software has risen in price by around 15 to 20 per cent in the US, and European users can expect local... [24 Jun 2008]
Sainsbury's to pay out £300k for online outage
News Between 20,000 to 30,000 customers were affected by the outage and the supermarket agreed to hand out £10 e-vouchers in compensation.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Sainsbury's will pay up to £300,000 in compensation for its food shopping website... [20 Jun 2008]
3.5G laptops to overwhelm mobile networks?
News On the one hand they have a highly attractive proposition - a novel mobile service with high ARPU. On the other hand, the very popularity of the service stretches the mobile network infrastructure to its utmost limit - threatening to degrade the... [20 Jun 2008]
Fingerprints analysed on the beat
News H is for Hand geometry The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) has extended a mobile fingerprinting trial by handing out 100 devices to a further 10 police forces.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics [11 Jun 2008]
Brics demand feature-packed mobiles
News On the other hand, you can still find cassette tapes in the US. With saturated mobile markets in developed nations, phone manufacturers are having to find ways to squeeze more features into lower-priced phones to capture the tech-savvy consumers in... [09 Jun 2008]
HTC shows its business Touch
News Peter Chou, HTC's president and chief executive, said in a statement: "The HTC Touch Pro and Touch Diamond have created a new generation of HTC touch devices that make the promise of the one-hand, one-touch mobile internet a reality. [05 Jun 2008]
