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The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up Without wasting a second, encryption company PGP was all over this story like a cheap suit. Sadly for PGP the story simply wasn't true, at least not according to Moorepay, who told silicon.com, quite categorically: "Neither Prince Charles, the... [29 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.06.07
Round-Up See it's easy to make this stuff up (though apologies if those story lines really do happen). And even worse still, Gabriel has posted online details which he said would spoil the ending for the millions of Harry Potter fans, the cad. [22 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.05.07
Round-Up And that has taken this story from the front page of the Penryn Bugle all the way to Fleet Street and beyond. The Round-Up appreciates - as we all should - the fact that if it wasn't for the BBC we'd all be living in a Rupert Murdoch wonderland but... [04 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.11.06
Round-Up And finally (before getting on to this week's caption competition), Reader Comment of the week goes to a man who wrote in responding to a story on silicon.com about Asda ramping up its efforts to do battle with Tesco and Sainsbury's in the online... [10 Nov 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.06.06
Round-Up And finally, the Round-Up finishes as it began, on something of a blue note, with a story which provides evidence of why censorship isn't always a very practical measure. This is a shocking story," a press release tried in vain to convince us. [02 Jun 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Introducing the new look silicon.com
Comment There are times when the IT industry is of little visual appeal but there are also times when a story can be told in pictures alone or with strong visual back-up. Over the last few years I've written about so many other websites it would be remiss... [04 Jul 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.04.05
Round-Up When we first saw it reappear as something other than a rather implausible tall story there was some chuckling across the team - "they haven't spotted it's a joke" - but mirth quickly turned to embarrassment for the folks at 'Intellect' who send... [08 Apr 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.02.05
Round-Up This story does have a happy ending for Clive and, the Round-Up presumes, the slightly long-suffering Sandra. And the proof for the Round-Up making that assumption.it's because she has decided instead to sell the space to notorious online casino... [18 Feb 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.01.05
Round-Up The real story of course is firstly of the incredible loss of life and secondly about the subsequent efforts to make sense of events and somehow ensure those affected regions to some degree can recover from a disaster which has forever changed... [07 Jan 2005]
Leader: US Election 2004 verdict
Leader First, consider our story from last week about online bookie Betfair. Avid readers may well pick up on a certain Bush-baiting that has accompanied columns such as the Weekly Round-Up in recent months. [01 Nov 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.09.04
Round-Up However, being neither a golfer nor a hard-nosed businessman it seemed proof of that particular pudding would remain elusive were it not for an intriguing story this week. Japanese daily Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun has revealed that online music giant... [10 Sep 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.05.04
Round-Up The Round-Up had to turn to Google to find out who Dubya's uncle is - for the sake of a rather childish joke - but at least it's not passing off knowledge as it's own - unlike people who cheat in pub quizzes… cue seamless link to the next story. [07 May 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.04.2004
Round-Up In which case silicon.com ends up looking daft for running a hokum story, we're all stuck with paltry storage limits on our webmail addresses and Market Age has spent its Xmas party kitty on a duff US trademark. [16 Apr 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.08.03
Round-Up The blunder was made all the more ironic after a Newsweek cover story last week said Dean "is revolutionising political fund-raising with his clever cyberstumping," while Dan Gillmor, a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, proclaimed that Dean... [22 Aug 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.08.03
Round-Up If you can't get online, then you can't commit a digital blunder.silicon.com reader Jonathan Hill wrote in with this story - which falls firmly into the 'look before you leap' (.or at least look before you hit 'send') category: "A sales rep at my... [15 Aug 2003]
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