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National Work from Home Day: A blessing or a curse?

News Despite two hassle-free experiences of home working my attempt to log into silicon.com's network today was greeted by an error message. In honour of National Work from Home Day, the silicon.com team stayed out of the office to find out just how...

Tags: home, work

[16 May 2008]

TJ Hughes buys into email to slash admin costs

News These messages are fired directly into the store manager's diary and require them to acknowledge receipt of the message and allow them to automatically notify head office when the job is done. We can learn how certain stores have achieved that lift...

Tags: tj hughes, email, vodat

[14 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News Wireless tech could also power smart pill boxes and bottles which sense whether they have been opened at the appropriate time each day and can sound an alarm or send a reminder message to a patient's home hub or portable monitor if not, said the...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

iPhone vs BlackBerry: What the users love...

News I love being able to jump on the internet, send email, get maps, weather forecasts, instant message, and make phone calls. But what do the people who know them best really think about them? A survey of more than 800 US smart phone users has shed...

Tags: smart phone, blackberry, iphone

[30 Apr 2008]

Harrods makes a tech-savvy exhibition of itself

News The system uses so-called 'QR' barcodes printed on posters which, when photographed using mobile phone cameras, are scanned and generate a text message. This message directs people to register for text alerts about the Design Icons exhibition or to...

Tags: barcode, camera, qr, mobile

[25 Apr 2008]

silicon.com Classics: The best of Google Earth

News The photo tour also includes incredible shots of the famous Hollywood sign in California, Microsoft's Redmond HQ and a rude message in a farmer's field. The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com...

Tags: google earth

[22 Apr 2008]

BBC iPlayer comes to the Wii

News Once the iPlayer service for Wii is live a message will be sent to all web-connected Wii consoles in the UK. The BBC has announced its iPlayer online TV catch-up service is being made available for the Nintendo Wii.

Tags: tv, nintendo, iplayer

[10 Apr 2008]

Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts

News He said: "It's sending a message that judges understand this is affecting lives. President of the Internet Security Advisors Group, Ira Winkler, said: "The statistics are basically that we're screwed.

Tags: isps, law, fbi, security

[10 Apr 2008]

Facebook for BlackBerry racks up a million hits

News A user's status message can also be updated on the go, and friend requests can be made and responded to. BlackBerry users have racked up more than one million downloads of a Facebook app in the five months since it launched.

Tags: facebook, blackberry, rim

[02 Apr 2008]

BT Yahoo! Mail suffers email update glitch

News Users have been receiving a 553 error message when trying to send emails from Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird and Mac Mail. In order to fix the problem users have to validate the email address from which they want to send a message by logging...

Tags: yahoo!, update, outage, security

[31 Mar 2008]

Web 2.0 'imperative' for business

News With the business world becoming more competitive, it is critical organisations have a web 2.0 strategy to communicate their message to employees and customers, an industry player has said. Web 2.0 tools, encompassing second-generation web...

Tags: oracle, social networking, web 2.0, facilitate

[27 Mar 2008]

Mobiles on the moon? Nasa prepares trial for takeoff

News Astronauts and robots exploring the moon's surface will only be a text message away after the system goes live later this century. The stellar vision of the mobile's future even tops the effort that managed to get a text message to the top of Mount...

Tags: moon, space, nasa, message

[19 Feb 2008]

'Fake' scam text messages warn against rip-offs

News This first text is then followed by a more detailed message explaining that the first message was a fake and that the OFT sent it to warn about mobile phone text scams. The second message also lets people know about a free text message service...

Tags: sms, mobile, warning, scams

[15 Feb 2008]

Facebook goes all chocolaty

News The recipient of the gift then receives a Facebook message requesting their mobile phone number which the voucher can be sent to. You can now send your Facebook friends chocolaty gifts which they can then pick up at a shop using their mobile phone.

Tags: facebook, payment, mobile, mars

[14 Feb 2008]

Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID

News Fliers will also be able to choose to receive a text message when their luggage is on the carousel in the arrivals lounge - triggered by the tags passing RFID scanners fitted on two conveyors in T3. Passengers flying to and from Dubai out of...

Tags: rfid, heathrow, baa, chip

[13 Feb 2008]

Why pay more abroad? EU demands mobile roaming cuts

News EU commissioner for information society and media, Viviane Reding, speaking today at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, said: "What I want to achieve is very simple - that sending a text message or downloading other data via a...

Tags: reding, mobile world congress, roaming, eu

[11 Feb 2008]

Google launches online security tools

News The basic version of the tech - called Google Message Filtering - costs £1.50 per user per year and includes Postini's filtering system to block inbound spam and malware. The next version up is Google Message Security, which costs slightly more at...

Tags: web, google, saas, security

[05 Feb 2008]

Self-assessment tax site crashes out on deadline day

News During the morning and early afternoon users trying to access the Self Assessment Online section of the HMRC website were confronted with the message "Online Service Temporarily Unavailable". Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has been forced...

Tags: hmrc, deadline, government gateway, tax

[31 Jan 2008]

Google invests in web to fight disaster

News That way, for example, Rasmussen could send a message about a patient with untreated symptoms in Laos, in Asia via SMS on his phone, which might only have one signal bar of service. That message could then be broadcast to anyone subscribed to his...

Tags: aid, facebook, google

[17 Jan 2008]

iPhone gets location savvy

News Other tweaks in the 1.1.3 iPhone software update include the ability to send a text message to multiple recipients, and customisable home screens. Apple has released a software update for the iPhone which puts fresh focus on location-based services.

Tags: iphone, maps, location-based services, location

[16 Jan 2008]

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