children
RSS childrenOpinion: A bad case of worms
Comment From personal experience, home PC users appear to fall into two categories: those like my father-in-law, who is so worried by the possibility of fraud that he's not going to risk connecting his brand new Hewlett-Packard system to the internet; and... [21 Dec 2004]
Q&A: Acorn co-founder Andy Hopper
Comment My other project is my children but Cambridge is a funky old place and I've had the good fortune to take advantage of the funk. Hopper started his career in Cambridge with a PhD in the late 1970s for his work on high-speed communications networks... [04 Jan 2007]
In the commentary box: The Renaissance reaches Silicon Valley
Comment That's why I'm convinced that children will become the new business paragons, because their synapses haven't been fused yet, so they can think more laterally. Has there ever been a comparable period of change in history? [08 Aug 2001]
How scary is Carol Vorderman?
Comment There's nothing a mother wouldn't do for the well being of her children. However, to the management bods at Thus - owner of Demon Internet - the TV presenter took on the appearance of the Angel of Death, prompting them to commit one of the most... [01 Mar 2001]
The best of 'Reader Comments': a future high-tech Dome, saucy email and Nazi memorabilia revisited
Comment These articles of memorabilia struck terror into the hearts of many men, women and children and, in some cases, were the last things they saw. As ever, it proved a controversial subject (http://www.silicon.com/a41016 ) [04 Jan 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Coffee gets wired, the ebusiness porn model, and ASP SLAs
Comment For some time the commission for the Child Online Protection Act has been in discussions with industry representatives to find ways to stop children accessing pornography on the internet. There has been much talk of the ways in which the internet... [14 Nov 2000]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: VoIP wins
Comment I've purchased headsets for all of my children and colleagues and asked them to move to VoIP. Given the technology's impending rise, can the phone companies and mobile operators survive? It is now over 20 years since I first embarked on a course of... [17 Feb 2005]
RFID chips headed for hospitals?
News Along with its attorney general's implant, Mexico has evaluated the chips as a way to better identify children in the event of a kidnapping. The Federal Drug Administration issued a ruling on Tuesday that essentially begins a final review process... [28 Jul 2004]
How recycled PCs bridge the digital divide
News Hopefully when we leave school we will be as advanced as children in many other countries. With the long-awaited WEEE Directive rolling into full effect later this year - forcing all businesses to address the ways in which they dispose of... [12 Feb 2007]
The Director's Cut: You are not alone!
Comment Hamish Taylor, CEO of Vision Consulting UK, gave a fantastic presentation, during which he shared a lovely story about how we often underestimate the knowledge of our children. Combine this belief with some of our realities - internal project... [25 Jun 2003]
Mobile operators maturing into better corporate citizens
Comment By and large, however, people aren't worried about the masts because they spoil a beautiful landscape, they're concerned about their health and that of their children.mmO2's initiative may sound good - one mast instead of two - but it just means... [09 Aug 2004]
What is the biggest challenge to your business?
News He said: "The first time one of my children filled in an expense sheet in SAP they asked me 'what is this? Businesses must innovate in their use of IT to meet five major challenges in the coming years, or suffer the fate of history's other... [05 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06
Round-Up Brennan says it could be used to identify the whereabouts of lost children or passengers who have failed to show up at the gate when called. For starters it's been a case of red faces all round at Apple (shame), with news that a number of iPods... [20 Oct 2006]
Sklyarov's year: Arrested, jailed, freed - and baffled (part two)
News He said he plans to spend more time with his wife and two children when not teaching and working on ElcomSoft projects he described as too complicated to explain. He said the software was designed to allow people to make backup copies of eBooks... [20 Dec 2001]
India diary, day 2: Emergency calls and rural life
Comment It's even had 53 children born in its ambulances. There's a crash, with two motorcyclists hurt. Then a snake-bite victim, and then an attempted suicide, before an accident in a railway yard. Just another Monday afternoon for the Hyderabad emergency... [05 Mar 2007]
