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Write Better Legal Documents With Microsoft Word

whitepaper A large part of any attorney's job consists of trying to persuade someone (a client, opposing counsel, an arbitrator, a judge) that the legal arguments one is making are not only factually and legally correct, but logical as well.

Tags: business management

[12 May 2008]

Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user

Comment Addressing all the arguments is pointless, grounded as they are for the most part in subjectivity. Mac bashers fall back on the same old arguments to justify the alleged superiority of PCs. Partly because it seems to be a shortcut to a proper...

Tags: leopard, iphone, mac, apple

[17 Apr 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 16.11.07

Round-Up Another eternal reoccurrence is endless arguments that take place between fans of competing operating systems and silicon.com last week enthusiastically poked the wasps' nest of OS discord with the stick of online polling.

Tags: microsoft, linux, windows, laptops

[16 Nov 2007]

Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world

Comment Hardware projects - OLPC and Intel's Classmate - are liable to get tangled in arguments about the location of manufacturing plants. So there is certainly a question about whether it is sound policy for developing countries to accept the IPR...

Tags: intel, microsoft, developing countries, olpc

[17 Jul 2007]

Upwardly Mobile: What's on my Christmas list

Comment And if you could concoct a mash-up showing me the location of all the nearest Wimpys, that would be helpful too - settle a lot of arguments. What's the point of dual-mode mobiles, VoIP phones and laptops with built-in wireless cards when wi-fi on...

Tags: upwardly mobile, christmas

[14 Dec 2006]

Where RFID Meets the Much Misunderstood Moore - Part 3 of 3

whitepaper In the first two papers of this series, the authors' considered arguments by those who claim tag prices would fall below ten cents, and arguments by those who reject the idea. The authors' showed how both could supposedly use Moore's Law and...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, tag, point, learning

[09 Nov 2006]

Editor's Blog: So, er, what's the big idea?

Comment So what do we need to know, if we're not going to get perfect definitions and cost/benefit arguments? But I took his point. You sometimes see people's eyes glaze over after the mention of SOA or web services.

Tags: agassi, sap, mysap, soa

[29 Sep 2006]

Tech group appeals ISP wiretapping diktat

News Judge Harry Edwards, who had called the FCC's arguments "gobbledygook" and "nonsense" during oral arguments before the appeals court, dissented. If law enforcement can demonstrate to Congress a need to extend Calea to the internet - something the...

Tags: wiretapping

[24 Jul 2006]

Minority Report: Apple staying in the minority?

Comment Partially because - love it or loathe it - the company continues to produce interesting and agenda-setting technology and partially because the arguments were getting rather tedious. Meanwhile, the company's market share in the US sits at 3.6 per...

Tags: apple

[12 Jun 2006]

Google must capitulate to DoJ, says judge

News A federal judge hearing arguments in the Department of Justice's records fight with Google said on Tuesday that he would grant federal prosecutors at least part of their request for excerpts from the search giant's massive database.

Tags: doj, google

[15 Mar 2006]

ID card support collapses

News Dr Adam Joinson, senior lecturer at the OU, said: "The results of the study suggest that removing people's choice about whether or not to have an identity card not only reduces public support but also leads to a 'tipping point' where those...

Tags: id cards on trial, id cards

[13 Mar 2006]

Opinion: Microsoft vs Linux - the Empire strikes back?

Comment Strategically, Microsoft, after years of attempting to ignore the threat from the open source community, is now looking for the arguments that reinforce both its own paradigm model and customer loyalties that exist in the enterprise market.

Tags: linux, microsoft

[23 Nov 2005]

Is office politics killing grid computing?

Is office politics killing grid computing?

News Grid computing is much more widespread in businesses than first thought, new research has found, but arguments over who should pay for it could well be stymieing growth in adoption. The whole point of a grid computing environment is to achieve the...

Tags: grid

[20 Apr 2005]

Annotation-Based Finite State Processing in a Large-Scale NLP Architecture

whitepaper There are well-articulated arguments promoting the deployment of finite-state (FS) processing techniques for natural language processing (NLP) application development. This paper adopts a point of view of designing industrial strength NLP...

Tags: xml, deployment, point, techniques

[12 Apr 2005]

Offshoring: Not the end of IT as we know it

Comment This is an important debate and it should not be trivialised by elevating pub conversations about offshoring to the point where those arguments are considered as fact.silicon.com is a good example of a media source that has worked hard to...

Tags: british computer society, offshoring

[06 Dec 2004]

Feds rule on VoIP control

News Paul, Minnesota, is scheduled to hear arguments on Wednesday morning. I think at this point, it's silliness - frankly, a waste of resources. US federal regulators have asserted their control of internet phone service but have not yet fleshed out...

[16 Nov 2004]

Leader: RFID, NFC and consumers

Leader: RFID, NFC and consumers

Leader And at this point let us say that beyond the reasonable arguments over privacy, this publication has largely stopped publishing any 'RFID marks the coming of The Beast 666'-type comments. Research out today shows a surprisingly high awareness of...

Tags: nfc, rfid

[22 Oct 2004]

Devil's Advocate: When business gets in the way of security

Devil's Advocate: When business gets in the way of security

Comment This leads to arguments that justify substantial spending on business continuity and security, on the grounds of the high cost of downtime. Our conception of efficiency involves systems being pared down to the point that they are almost failing.

Tags: security

[21 Sep 2004]

Leader: How do we get more kids into tech?

Leader In truth that might be the one inescapable fact of life which undermines all other arguments and starts getting bums on seats in the classroom. One silicon.com reader wrote in this week to point out that any IT expert worth their salt would...

Tags: skills gap

[27 Aug 2004]

Nazi memorabilia fight sees Yahoo! pitted against the French

Nazi memorabilia fight sees Yahoo! pitted against the French

News In Monday's decision, the court did not side with the arguments involving the Nazi goods of either Yahoo! The web portal claimed that the French courts had no authority over material hosted by its servers in the US and then took legal action to...

[24 Aug 2004]

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