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Stallman slams the cloud as "stupidity"
News It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he said. Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the GNU operating system, has slammed cloud computing as "stupidity" that... [01 Oct 2008]
CIOs not taking a shine to Chrome
News Despite the hype it seems few IT teams are testing Google's recently launched web browser Chrome - yet. Exclusive Special Report: CIO Agenda 2008 Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008… ... [29 Sep 2008]
Cloud - not ready for mission-critical business
News We are on the steepest portion of the hype cycle curve," he said, and advised against fully handing over an enterprise to the "cloud" just yet. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is "several years away" from being... [03 Sep 2008]
Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn
News After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the end of Firefox to the demise of Microsoft itself.silicon.com spoke to industry... [02 Sep 2008]
Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
News After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the end of Firefox to the demise of Microsoft itself.silicon.com spoke to industry... [02 Sep 2008]
Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News The analyst's annual hype cycle predicts the fortunes of emerging technologies as they progress from early day enthusiasm, through user disillusionment as they fail to live up to immediate hype and... [11 Aug 2008]
Motorola announces profit for Q2
News And despite the hype surrounding the iPhone, Motorola still managed to sell one million Rokrs, the company's music-playing phone. Motorola surprised Wall Street Thursday by reporting a small profit and steady market... [01 Aug 2008]
DIY wi-fi, Vista in disguise, 3G iPhone and more...
News And, showing that despite all the launch hype the iPhone is still not perfect, silicon.com picked out 10 things Apple could do better with its shiny new device. One of the biggest stories in July was the launch of the... [31 Jul 2008]
Nokia grabs bigger slice of market
News Apple and AT&T stores across the country have sold out of the new iPhone 3G, as sales of the new iPhone appear to be living up to the hype. Nokia is gobbling up market share on mobile handsets fuelled by sales in... [21 Jul 2008]
3G iPhone - the business perspective
News The 3G iPhone goes on sale this Friday 11 July and the launch hype is already in overdrive - but is the device really going to take the corporate world by storm, as O2 hopes? So despite all Apple's enterprise-focused... [10 Jul 2008]
RIM quiet on touchscreen BlackBerry rumours
News In fact, bypassing all the hype, RIM's latest device - the BlackBerry Bold - is as committed to the keyboard as ever, even if the smart phone has been styled to have an iPhone-esque silver silhouette. [14 May 2008]
Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation
News On the hype of openness and whether or not it's unhealthy… When the Future of Web Apps conference (Fowa) wound down on Friday, a few things were clear, not the least of which is the fact that open standards are a big... [03 Mar 2008]
Wikia Search goes live but results are "pretty bad"
News An alpha version of the Wikia search engine has been unveiled this week and, despite the hype surrounding its appearance, online commentary has been overwhelmingly negative. Instead of arriving on the web pre-loaded with... [08 Jan 2008]
Poll: And the most over-hyped event of 2007 was...
News But if the folks in Redmond are looking a little red-faced after blowing up all those unwanted 'Wow' balloons, silicon.com readers are also convinced Cupertino is guilty of over-cranking the hype machine. [03 Jan 2008]
Podcast: The End of Year Weekly Round-Up 21.12.07
Round-Up Podcast Facebook stalking, iPhone hype and HMRC icebergs and sleepless nights are all discussed in the End of Year Weekly Round-Up podcast. Andy McCue hosts and is joined in the studio by Natasha Lomas, Julian Goldsmith and Tim... [21 Dec 2007]
