internet in comment and analysis
Voting in the internet age - the Palm Beach Story
Comment Many voters are feeling the same amazement that vote-counting in the internet age is still in such question. As the US presidential election stubbornly refuses to draw to a conclusion, voters here are questioning the... [17 Nov 2000]
Criminal IT: Should you trust the internet?
Comment In his debut silicon.com column, Criminal IT, Neil Barrett examines whether internet users can rely on a system built on so many unknowns. Do you trust the internet? It's a silly, meaningless question:... [27 Jan 2005]
Fool's Gold: Are Internet stocks really worth it?
Comment Since late summer 1998, the share prices of Internet companies have gone into a frenzy. Dr Gordon Edge, chairman of the Generics Group and veteran UK entrepreneur, told Silicon.com: "Many Internet stocks... [11 May 1999]
Make the Internet cheaper!
Comment This month in the UK three major commercial schemes have been announced trying to make it easier for consumers and small businesses to make it onto the Internet. Dixons launched an ambitious scheme offering consumers... [30 Sep 1998]
Fighting Fraud: The strange case of the internet conman
Comment silicon.com's 'Fighting Fraud' campaign can reveal the intricate web of lies behind one of the conmen colonising the internet, posing as investment specialists. According to Eric Simonson, the Dallas-based owner of Alpha... [08 May 2001]
Online retail: boo-shucks to the Internet nay-sayers
Comment A whole gaggle of 'told-you-so' commentators were wheeled out to say these Internet companies are in crisis. But what, pray tell, is an Internet company? So can we please ban the phrase... [01 Feb 2000]
Opinion: Time to teach the internet watchdog some new tricks?
Comment But with the increasing number of threats on the internet, it could be time for a change of strategy, argues Brian White. Supporters of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) will point to the decline in... [13 Mar 2006]
Carrier pigeons disenfranchised by internet and email
Comment The Orissa state pigeon carrier service in India is cruelly sacking two-thirds of its winged workforce because of the increasing use of the internet and email. It continued: "In response, in the short term we have had to... [12 Oct 2001]
Is there more to PeopleSoft than internet-everything?
Comment On top of that, things have moved on and its internet architecture is not the differentiator it once was. Analyst Ball believes the company presents "an exaggeration of the benefits of its internet... [26 Nov 2001]
Devil's Advocate: RIP the internet year?
Comment Nowadays, it seems to me that internet years are longer than ordinary years. Now you might think that by now, with all those internet years clocked up since online transactions first became possible, it... [18 Feb 2003]
Opinion: Policing the internet will take more than law
Comment Campaigners against pornographic sites have built up a lot of emotional support so it was no surprise that the automatic response of 289 MPs was to call for regulation and control of the internet. It may come as a shock... [20 Sep 2005]
Leader: Childish government of the internet
Leader The UK government, no stranger to naïve pronouncements where the internet is concerned, has decided it is going to make the UK the safest country on the internet. Putting aside the fact that this... [15 Sep 2004]
Net profits: taxing the Internet
Comment Internet taxation is one subject few governments have rushed to address - despite the fact it's costing them money. This month the Inland Revenue (IR) and Her Majesty's Customs & Excise (C&E) are due to release... [05 Nov 1999]
Opening the door to the internet fraudsters
Comment And yet I repeat: 95 per cent of you think you'll be the victim of an internet fraud. Ever get the impression the once dazzling sheen of the internet is beginning to tarnish slightly? At the same time,... [30 Mar 2001]
Analysis: The new Internet order
Comment It will stop funding the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Iana) - which hands out IP addresses to the main registries - and will step aside for a new Iana, controlled by industry representatives from around the world. [13 Aug 1998]
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