flash in comment and analysis
Leader: What Flash Larry's latest deal means
Leader It's been more than a year since Tom Siebel was reportedly door-stepping Larry Ellison, asking the Oracle boss to take his CRM firm off his hands. It was an image which had more in common with tea towels, clothes pegs or double glazing than large... [13 Sep 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The way to mobile security
Comment This has 128Mb of memory (not even enough for a single PowerPoint file); a flash memory slot, which gives me the capability of an extra 8Gb of direct storage or more if I use multiple cards; and an SDIO card slot, which makes it possible for me to... [15 Jul 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.09.07
Round-Up And then, the Round-Up suspects, only because mega capacity flash memory is too scarce and expensive to stick into devices to cater for people who simply have to carry around 40,000 songs in their pocket. [07 Sep 2007]
Farewell, floppy
Comment The Dell USB Memory Key uses flash memory and works by plugging into a PC's USB port. Dell's current Dimension desktops cannot boot from the USB Flash Memory Key. The floppy drive is heading toward extinction at Dell Computer. [07 Feb 2003]
Welcome to 2002
Comment It's been proven that Macromedia's popular Flash software can be used to carry a virus. Don't lose too much sleep over this one though: no instances have yet been found in the wild, and simply visiting a website which uses Flash isn't dangerous... [10 Jan 2002]
Dear silicon.com... Tax man's stamp bill, more lost data, unencrypted laptops…
Comment I left a USB flash drive in my shirt pocket and my wife washed it. A month later, I found the flash drive in the sump of the washing machine. Tax man's stamp blowout Taxpayer stung by £2.25m HMRC apology [24 Jan 2008]
Radioactive: Which way for wireless broadband?
Comment Another alternative is the Flash-OFDM technology offered by Flarion. The first nationwide Flarion Flash-OFDM network was deployed by T-Mobile in Slovakia and the Finnish government also has plans for a nationwide network. [27 Jul 2006]
Editor's Blog: Toshiba laptops, Betfair Down Under and CIO-types
Comment Nothing flash, just the A100, which I like. Toshiba is a renowned laptop maker and as I have mentioned in previous posts, I am a user. Yesterday, like lots of people, I heard the news that, after Dell and Apple, Toshiba is the latest laptop maker... [20 Sep 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.07.07
Round-Up Meanwhile those of us standing on dry land are dusting off our winter coats and scarves and dodging hail storms that would have Flash Gordon running for cover. Wimbledon will probably be concluding sometime this side of Christmas and large parts of... [06 Jul 2007]
Minority Report: The legend of the Headless Mac
Comment Cue lightning flash and Danny Elfman music. Cautious punters may wish to wager money on a flash-based iPod, a re-vamp of the ageing eMac or - as predicted in late 2004 by investment house Merrill Lynch - a mega-storage home entertainment device. [07 Jan 2005]
Leader: Apple work with Microsoft? Let the people decide
Leader From Real sledgehammering its way onto iPods to Microsoft's none-too-subtle suggestions that consumers on the hunt for a new flash music player should avoid getting locked into one online store, DRM has been a battleground for digital music... [07 Apr 2005]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment Countless more sensitive files must be lost every day on USB drives when someone downloads accounts records to work from home but mislays the flash drive en route or emails it to the wrong address. Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is... [10 Mar 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Look out for the little guy
Comment Manufacturers of network cards, hubs and USB flash drives are all trying to up the ante, with products such as storage servers and home media hubs. Vendors who make software and hardware easy enough to use and manage for smaller companies will... [05 Jan 2006]
IT skills for 2002: Reasons to be optimistic
Comment Trendy agencies saw their fortunes head south and web designers had to pack up their desk toys in a flash. Last year was tough for anyone looking for a half-decent career move in IT. Computer skills in general no longer guaranteed unlimited job... [04 Jan 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: School's out - so watch out
Comment For sure, this summer ain't a flash in the pan - we haven't seen the last of this vacation surge. Written in my home office and despatched to silicon.com from a free domestic wi-fi connection in a forest glade just outside Chelmsford UK [21 Aug 2006]
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