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Submit your ideas for Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense
News This Christmas season you can - by entering our first-ever 'column idea' competition for long-time columnist Peter Cochrane. You submit ideas for Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense column via email to editorial@silicon.com before 14 December 2004. [06 Dec 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Fringe benefits
Comment Apologies firstly for the fact it's been a while since my last column - I've been performing up in Edinburgh on the Fringe. It seems almost trite to make such an obvious point - especially in a column that assumes a level of web-savvy - but it's... [01 Sep 2004]
SAS and Sudoku
White Paper Given a partially filled grid, the solver must fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. Sudoku puzzles were first popularized in Japan and have taken the world by storm. [02 Jun 2007]
XML Tooling for DB2
White Paper In the rest of the paper the author walks through the process of creating a table with an XML column, creating XML indexes on the column, creating an XML schema and registering it to XSR. Generating a sample XML document from the XML schema and... [09 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.09.06
Round-Up may recall this being covered in this column at the time the original news broke (see here if you doubt the Round-Up's good word). Fans of Microsoft and Gervais (and statistically there must be quite a few of them) were in Office heaven this month... [01 Sep 2006]
Tony Hallett's After These Messages: 3's mad ad
Comment The subject of my first column in this series, all the way back in February 2003, was the UK pre-launch campaign of third-generation mobile operator 3. When I last considered 3 - and, let's face it, this column has cast an eye over plenty of other... [03 Nov 2004]
Illinois Century Network Provides Superior Support With Remedy
White Paper Column Technologies, a Remedy Systems Integrator, proposed a solution that leveraged the out-of-the-box functionality of Remedy Customer Support and Remedy Asset Management, and the flexibility of Remedy's Action Request System (AR System). [23 Sep 2005]
Photos: Five unusual data centres
Photo But, as Quocirca's Dennis Szubert asked in a recent column, does anyone need a data centre in a box? Data centres are big business, and as well as the usual anonymous buildings on the edge of town silicon.com has visited some more unusual locations... [25 Jul 2007]
Mobile handset wars: Nokia will beat Microsoft, says Ovum
News In a new column on silicon.com, she argues that rumours that the mobile phone handset market will go the way of the PC are greatly exaggerated, and there remains plenty of room for diversity. These vendors are not stupid and have no desire to... [03 Apr 2002]
Yahoo! launches new homepage
News Yahoo's last major redesign was in 1995, when the site adopted a two-column format and added the Yahoo! The only display advertising on the new page is the central box, currently devoted to the Fifa World Cup promotion. [11 Jun 2002]
Radioactive: We want our mobile TV
Comment In this month's Radioactive column, Futurity Media's Stewart Baines looks into the coming of this much-hyped and much pooh-poohed technology. More recently though, an Ericsson Consumer Lab survey suggested punters are tuning in to the idea of a... [01 Dec 2004]
Upwardly Mobile: Sente and sensibility
Comment Welcome to the first instalment of Upwardly Mobile, a new column from silicon.com senior reporter Jo Best which will cover mobile and wireless innovations from around the world - and what they mean to the UK. [25 Oct 2006]
The Ovum View: The perfect call centre
Comment Over the last three years, thousands of column inches have been devoted to subjects like multi-channel interaction, customer relationship management (CRM) and offshore outsourcing. In order to support this burgeoning and highly lucrative market... [04 Nov 2003]
Boardroom Despatches: Two groups to sanity check tech
Comment In this column I'd like to talk about two constituencies to look to in terms of sanity checking the great technologies. The internet - mainly used for the sending of emails, seen as a very low-cost, convenient way of staying in touch, particularly... [17 Aug 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.01.04
Round-Up While reading the press release the Round-Up experienced all four emotions before finally settling for 'relief' after realising the story could be shoehorned into the column to drag the final word count up to a more respectable figure. [30 Jan 2004]
