message in comment and analysis
The best of 'Reader comments': Ringtone nightmares and Microsoft's message deconstructed
Comment Here, we'll briefly consider the great mobile ringtone debate (http://www.silicon.com/a45249 ), and feature some truly analytical feedback about the message Microsoft is really trying to convey. The past two weeks have seen a number of... [06 Jul 2001]
Boardroom Despatches: My webinar message
Comment But there is a message beyond 'Let's use them more' (or should that be 'Let's use them as much as they do in the US'? Who'd have thought a PC and phone could take the place of a full-on conference presentation? [09 Jul 2003]
Leader: A £1m message that goes out nationwide
Leader Let your customers, staff and shareholders know what the risks are - that's the message. When it comes to regulatory fines, especially those issued to companies for information abuse, one often feels disappointed. [14 Feb 2007]
Treading the legal minefield of message boards
Comment When the Friends Reunited message boards became the place for naming and shaming teachers accused of child abuse, there was understandable outcry from the education sector. When an embittered girlfriend wanted the world to know about her boyfriend... [23 Jun 2003]
IM: Managing the medium, managing the message
Comment Choosing IM as a new means of corporate communications is not a decision to be made by IT managers or the board. The decision has already been made, with hundreds of millions of instant messages leaving corporate desktops everyday. [24 Sep 2003]
Skills Survey 2002: Message to employers: Understand your current skills set - be prepared for the future
Comment The headline statistic from this year's silicon.com skills survey was that 17.5 per cent of companies are unable to fill IT positions - down dramatically from last year's 38 per cent and 48 per cent the year before that. [19 Mar 2002]
Tony boloney: Blair's photo call with Microsoft sends out wrong message?
Comment Just as the argument over the government's decision to use Microsoft's platform for its websites really starts to get heated, Tony Blair has managed to stir things up nicely. The government has been under attack for making a controversial switch... [01 Jun 2001]
Leader: Hammering home the message of laptop security
Leader There are two approaches to laptop security. First, there is the technological approach. Encryption, secure log-ins, one-time passwords, token authentication - all have their merits. Then there is the common sense approach, which also complements... [10 Jun 2004]
Get the message, don't take one
Comment These findings, from a Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) poll, point to a worrying divide between old economy and new economy work patterns, a divide that may scupper the success of some budding clicks-and-mortar businesses. [27 Sep 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: SCO's Tarantella gamble; Nokia's threat to the old world order; and the IT industry gets the business message
Comment With Linux threatening to shred SCO's Unix strategy, the company is looking for a new position. Could the cornerstone of SCO's strategy be Tarantella? Linux has hardly been out of the news in recent months, with the general conclusion being that... [12 Dec 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: SMS spam, go phish and Windows Media Center
Comment While it forecasts that short message services (SMS) will peak and plateau in 2004 and years beyond, it forecasts 100 per cent compound annual growth in enhanced message services, multimedia message services, instant message services and email... [29 Sep 2003]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.02.05
Round-Up That may well have been the message inside at least one Valentine's card this past Monday, assuming warring partners go to the trouble of celebrating, which (but for the need for a hook to hang this opening gambit on) the Round-Up seriously doubts. [18 Feb 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.10.04
Round-Up The mother of the 10-year-old said: "I was shocked that the school would send me a text message about something like that. News reached Silicon Towers this week of a young lad from Cheam Common School in Surrey expelled by text message, after the... [29 Oct 2004]
Viral goings on - the new Claire Swire?
Comment Earlier this week we carried a brief story about a web message board, actually one for football team Watford, and a supporter of the club, a certain Brian Tindle. The main contributors to the message board - just about everyone else. [26 Jul 2002]
Through the fog... Predictive texting
Comment Its tx4u product is yet to arrive in our pockets but when it does the number of taps to send a text message should decrease even further. If the first message I enter on the phone is ‘See you later’ then next time I enter and ‘s’ it will ask if I... [22 May 2003]
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