internet in comment and analysis
Internet cafés: Easy come, easy go?
Comment So how many internet café-owning millionaires do you know? How many millionaires made their money through internet cafés? What is he doing mucking about with internet cafés in the middle of a recession? [18 Oct 2001]
Transatlantic Cable: Vote 2000 - internet politics in the US
Comment Take, for instance, Republican candidate George W Bush's recent claims that Democrat Al Gore is guilty of "analogue thinking in a digital age, 28K thinking in a broadband era, an eight-track ideology in an MP3 world," adding "I support a ban on... [20 Oct 2000]
Leader: Internet 'innocent' of card crimes
Leader Many of this morning's newspapers have been quick to point the finger of blame at the internet for £110m in 'card not present' credit card fraud. The thinking must be that the internet is the only thing to have changed in recent years as far as... [10 Nov 2003]
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: of course you trust the internet, under... [27 Jan 2005]
John Lamb's Week: internet crash spawns new analysis industry
Comment Instead it will provide serious analysis of where some of the better known internet businesses came unstuck, although there is a rumour and gossip section. Analysing what's gone wrong with the dot-com boom is turning into a bit of an industry in... [11 Dec 2000]
China's internet revolution
Comment China is a booming internet society but how are its many constituent parts embracing the medium? Porter Erisman, VP for Chinese trading website Alibaba says: "The internet is at the core of community. [21 Jul 2006]
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 free Internet access through a... [30 Sep 1998]
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 'Internet companies'? [01 Feb 2000]
Just whose legislation rules the internet?
Comment When he tried to stop them he discovered some surprising facts about the internet and the law. Margaret Briffa, an internet and ecommerce lawyer, tells me the position taken by Google not only makes no concession to UK or European defamation laws... [05 Mar 2008]
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 architecture" and that "ease of use isn't all it... [26 Nov 2001]
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 initiative totally negates the notion of the... [15 Sep 2004]
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 Internet Presence and an... [08 May 2001]
Will internet chat be forced to pay the tax man?
Comment New US legislation would require businesses to pay taxes for offering internet chat and collaboration - even if they're located outside the US. Yahoo's instant-messaging client, Apple Computer's iChat application and a growing number of video games... [27 Jul 2004]
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 are overpriced, but not overvalued. [11 May 1999]
Good money after bad? Venture capitalists and Internet start-ups
Comment Following the recent failures of Toysmart.com and boo.com, many Internet start-ups have come under heavy - and often unjustified - criticism. Venture capitalists have just been chasing what they have seen in the retail equities markets, which has... [13 Jun 2000]
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