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Job interviews: So you think you've got them sussed?
Comment Career insights…   You won't get promoted looking like that   How to prepare for the interview   How to write a killer CV   Bored and underpaid? Maintain eye contact and engage the person opposite you. [15 May 2008]
Innovations in Pervasive Computing: Unwinding the Pattern Behind Today's Killer Apps
White Paper Although great ideas are always floating around, the first person to package an idea as a product usually gets the recognition, as well as the sales that may come from it. Pervasive computing has greatly increased the use of small computing devices... [09 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... data guardians, not so "killer" mobile apps, Vista on sale…
Comment Not so "killer" apps Poll: And the next killer app for mobiles is. The next killer app on mobile, to gain proper share, is sat-nav. OK, 37 people is more than one person - but just how are 37 people going to monitor hundreds if not thousands of... [06 Mar 2008]
How to prepare for the interview
Comment In my last column I looked at how to write a killer CV. How to write a killer CV - and what not to include. So now we're at the point where you've written a fabulous CV and, after being knocked sideways by it, the headhunter, or indeed one of his... [08 Feb 2008]
At sea over convergence?
Comment In all the fussing over nifty new features, roaming to the cheapest networks and acronym overloading from VoIP to LTE (long term evolution) and WiMax, it's important not to forget the killer app of telephony - the ability for one individual to... [21 Sep 2007]
Wi-fi CCTV in parking tickets drive
News Parking enforcement is the killer application that everyone is looking for," said Vic Baylis, director of services at Westminster City Council. The system means parking tickets can be issued without a human witnessing the offence in person. [11 Sep 2007]
Xerox launches intelligent search engine
News Mario Jarmasz, technology showroom engineer at Xerox, said: "Xerox is not creating a Google killer. To use the previous example, when a user types in "what Steve Jobs said yesterday", the tool will break down the sentence and recognise "Steve Jobs... [22 Jun 2007]
3GSM Diary, day 5: Protests and porn
Comment Day 4: Mobile's future killer apps? Mike Zafirovski of Nortel believes that in the coming years there could be tens or hundreds of connections per person as every device from the mobile to the air conditioning unit and home electronics becomes... [15 Feb 2007]
Minority Report: The death of the iPod
Comment Undoubtedly, the biggest perceived competitor to the iPod is the Zune player from Microsoft - the so-called 'iPod killer'. Due out this month in the US, the device is banking on wireless connectivity as the killer app that will differentiate it... [03 Nov 2006]
Load Balancing Exchange Front-End Servers
White Paper Exchange is the "Killer app" for most organizations. This paper covers two methods a person can use to load balance the front-end servers in an effort to maximize performance and availability. Without e-mail, productivity slows and in some cases... [20 Oct 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.03.05
Round-Up It might be a journalist who wasn't prepared to share a killer question with the rest of the floor and wants a private audience. And each year more and more people jump on this Gaelic bandwagon - none more so than in the technology sector when any... [18 Mar 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.10.04
Round-Up Still on the subject of mobile phones - and wrongdoing to some extent - there's long been talk of 'killer apps' (as opposed to 'killer abs' for anybody who watches the home shopping channels) - those applications which will take technologies from... [29 Oct 2004]
Leader: Hackers should be hired - sometimes
Leader The question split silicon.com's CIO Jury this week with one CIO saying you should "never be too proud to learn" while another likened hiring a hacker to getting serial-killer doctor Harold Shipman to check out your sick mother if he had served... [23 Sep 2004]
Has push-to-talk got what businesses need?
Comment It is commonly referred to as a 'walkie-talkie'-style service: however, it has also - quite often inaccurately - been teed up as a possible SMS killer, because in many implementations there will be more to it than a simple voice application. [22 Jan 2004]
Motorola Singapore: Staff quarantined in 'killer flu' scare
News Elsewhere in the region, a possible SARS infection in one of its employees also prompted tech giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) to shutter the doors of its 300-person Hong Kong office on the same day. The Motorola night-shift worker infected with a deadly... [31 Mar 2003]
