pay-as-you-drive
RSS pay-as-you-driveSAP users air support gripes
News A London pub crawl… with wi-fi on the side weird uses for an iPod hard drive disasters Nigerian' money scam - What happens when you reply? But Enterprise Support will represent a cost rise for users as it will increase support costs from 17 per... [25 Jul 2008]
Mobile operators warn over termination rate cuts
News A spokesman for the GSMA warned: "If you're going to make a big change to something as important as mobile termination rates, you as the Commission should carry out a full impact assessment. Asked whether cuts in mobile termination rates could... [30 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: The skills drain needs fixing
Comment The firms that make these offshoring decisions will ultimately make us all pay a heavy price, says the Naked CIO. This decision will increase the fears of UK IT workers who - as demonstrated by the reaction to previous articles on employment skills... [27 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …
Comment We still have to drive the same amount of miles to work each day if we pay 1p or £1 - taxing us more doesn't change anything! The sentiments behind open source, including freedom, sharing and enjoying productive work .if you had the impossible task... [27 Mar 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.02.08
Round-Up They get you from A-B but not in as much style and you may feel slightly embarrassed and underwhelmed with the experience. Some people accuse other people who drive Mercedes as being smug and self-satisfied. [01 Feb 2008]
How Norwich Union computes pay-as-you-drive
Case Study As far back as 2003 word got out that insurer Norwich Union (NU) was working on a pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) in-car 'black box' device. By tracking vehicle journeys, taking into account factors such as route, time of day, braking, age of driver and so... [27 Nov 2007]
E-payments: Cheap as chips
News The e-payment push is not only coming from the price of payment processing: virtual worlds are contributing to the drive to use electronic currencies such as Second Life's Linden dollar, with some unwanted consequences. [27 Nov 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How we'll beat road pricing
Comment If you drive 1,000 miles per month, which is not unusually high in the UK, you will pay around $3,000 per month in road charges. Augment all of this with high taxes on road usage and fuel, and punitive parking and traffic violation fees, and I'm... [12 Jun 2007]
UK pay-as-you-drive fuelled by local plan
News The government is pushing ahead with plans to introduce pay-as-you-drive road-pricing across the country, after announcing a draft bill to overhaul the UK's transport system. Shadow transport secretary, Chris Grayling, said in a statement: "It's... [23 May 2007]
Microsoft to mash-up its web services strategy
News The twist here is you could pay or dive into their marketplace and let them sell ads for you and use the revenue sharing to pay for the technology licensing. John Richards, director of product management for Windows Live Platform, said: "We very... [30 Apr 2007]
Stories of the month - February 2007
News But Joe Public also made an impact as the online petition against the proposed 'pay-as-you-drive' road charge scheme crashed the 10 Downing Street website which was hosting the e-petition.silicon.com managing editor Will Sturgeon did his bit for... [28 Feb 2007]
'Raise petrol tax instead of new road tax'
News silicon.com readers have asked the government to increase fuel tax and ditch the proposed 'pay as you drive' road charge in response to a popular e-petition against the road tax. One reader doubted the e-petition would help quash the tax, saying... [16 Feb 2007]
Road-charging protest crashes PM's website
News The plans for a 'pay-as-you-drive' scheme, which a government-backed report claims would tackle congestion and raise £28bn, have been labelled "highway robbery" by silicon.com readers. The e-petition, which urges people to oppose the controversial... [13 Feb 2007]
Anti-road-charge petition hits 750,000 signatures
News An online petition against the proposed 'pay-as-you-drive' road charge has accumulated 750,000 signatures, suggesting significant dislike of the scheme among UK citizens. [07 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: A 30,000ft view of the CIO
Comment It's a subject I know always interests our readers, from our past exclusive look behind the scenes at London's Congestion Charge nerve centre to speculation on how the government might try to run some kind of national pay-as-you-drive road tax... [30 Jan 2007]
