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Outsourcing 2.0: What's the new India?
News Companies will soon see outsourcing as a game of dice - hedging their bets and spreading outsourcing deals across the world, a report by the London School of Economics (LSE) has predicted. Report co-author professor Leslie Willcocks said... [31 Mar 2009]
Photos: From reel-to-reel to Blu-ray
Photo Now we're in the 1990s when Britpop ruled the world and the Nintendo Gameboy (right) ruled the playground following its UK introduction in 1990. Audio visual technology stalwart TDK showed off its history with its TDK... [17 Sep 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News Zittrain explained his ideas to silicon.com and told how the internet is in danger of regressing back to become a playground for "nerds" and "hobbyists". Internet scholar Jonathan Zittrain says the web is on the road to... [30 Jun 2008]
Lords: Government must do better on e-crime
News The report said: "The internet, while still a powerful force for good, has increasingly become the playground for criminals. The government must act now or risk losing public confidence in the security of the internet,... [10 Aug 2007]
Speech-Enabled Windows Application Using Microsoft SAPI
White Paper PCs are no longer a playground for a few computer freaks. They have changed from "Big Pocket Calculators" to be used as everyday tools with seemingly unlimited options. In modern countries using a computer has become a... [02 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.05.07
Round-Up Check out this week's.it descends towards the end into playground humour, includes the worst pun ever, as well as the suggestion the British army should invade Apple - not to mention some uncharacteristic swearing, which... [18 May 2007]
'Keeping the lights on' stifles tech innovation
News That may not always be avant-garde but this also is not the playground. Two separate reports last week by the London School of Economics/PA Consulting and analyst Gartner hit out at a lack of vision from CIOs, saying the... [30 Apr 2007]
Intel working on 'back to school' laptop
News Intel is developing a 'playground laptop' it hopes will end up in every schoolbag around the UK. The robust laptop - referred to within the company as the 'pupil device' - will reportedly cost around £500 and is being... [05 Mar 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Bring back MMS
Comment To children in the playground, they most certainly do not. The answer could lie in the grande dame of mobile services, MMS. Remember your first cameraphone? I do. It was rubbish. Every single picture I took looked like a... [22 Jan 2007]
Photos of the month - October 06
Photo CSR is child's play: Salesforce met Ground Force as silicon.com managing editor Will Sturgeon joined Salesforce.com's Salesforce Foundation on a project in San Francisco that saw a run-down piece of land transformed into a colourful and... [31 Oct 2006]
Photos: Proof that CSR is child's play
Photo Recently silicon.com managing editor Will Sturgeon joined Salesforce.com's Salesforce Foundation on a project in San Francisco that would see a run-down plot of land turned into a colourful, safe children's playground in... [10 Oct 2006]
Unwired: Prepare for the next generation
Comment You took note when MySpace, their chief playground, was sold to Rupert Murdoch for about half a billion dollars. Young people use technology like no previous generation. Unwired's Richard Leyland explains what to expect... [10 Oct 2006]
Schools do battle with cyber bullies
News He said the new guidelines will help every school tackle bullying in cyberspace with the same vigilance as in the playground. New government guidelines have been introduced to crack down on 'cyber bullying' by kids via... [25 Jul 2006]
School bullies taunt victims over the net
News A spokeswoman for MSN said: "If it's playground taunts they can't necessarily get involved but if it's a serious threat it can be reported to the local police. One in 10 teenagers has been bullied online over email or... [15 Mar 2006]
Leader: Why public support for ID cards is falling
Leader Throughout the ID cards process, instead of directly answering questions about the scheme, the government's response, more often than not, has been to simply rubbish the critics and shout them down like crude school... [13 Mar 2006]
