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Future mobiles, Windows 7, iPhone apps and the latest gadgets
Photo And with the release of Windows 7 on 22 October, PC World's branch on London's Tottenham Court Road was showing off a whole range of kit running the OS. There was also new security tech in October, in... [12 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.10.09
Round-Up Back in the days when the internet was just the 'Information Superhighway' we were as excited about the prospects that lay on the 'road ahead' as we were terrified of having to explain it to elderly relatives and senior... [02 Oct 2009]
Apple tablet or no Apple tablet, business is the device's natural home
News Provided Apple implement this as well as they have the iPhone then it's a significant step along the road for mobile professionals. In tech terms, the tablet is nothing new: Microsoft first announced... [13 Aug 2009]
Mahindra Satyam's new CEO on the road ahead for the outsourcing giant
News We lost a fair amount of business and it had to go to someone - in certain cases it went to Wipro or IBM or TCS or HP, you name it," said Gurnani, who took over as CEO six weeks ago after moving from his post as president of... [10 Aug 2009]
There's just one problem with tablets: No one wants them
Comment Geeks might like it, and buy them as living room couch web-surfing computers, but for families looking to address real technology needs, a netbook like a $200 Acer Aspire One offers a better bet: it has a real keyboard, its own storage,... [05 Aug 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment What use is a Porsche with a top speed of 190mph if it breaks down every time you get to the end of the road? Despite hours on the phone to tech support and the installation of new telephone lines and a... [04 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 19.06.09
Round-Up It's the first step on the road to healing. The rather baldly named Digital Britain report has been talked up for months and promised to send Blighty heading down the information superhighway into a glowing... [19 Jun 2009]
Police mobiles cautioned for bad behaviour
News She told the conference that many forces "did not necessarily have the systems within their own forces for that mobile technology to be fully beneficial from the start" leading to a situation where "some forces are far further along that... [12 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.06.09
Round-Up He sees the microblogging service as being on the road to being part of the standard way of life, just one of the many ways to communicate. Unsurprisingly the name has split the tech community in twain,... [05 Jun 2009]
Bangalore bashing: Recession gets nasty
Comment The Anti-American Imperialism Forum marched through the crowded Mahatma Gandhi Road, through the debris and blockades of the upcoming metro railway construction, and stomped into the Bank of America building. [28 May 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.05.09
Round-Up Ah yes, the freedom of the open road, the wind in your hair, the cheeky sound of your bell, the fun to be had pulling wheelies to impress your mates. Keeping with the bedtime theme (only for a little longer) a separate... [22 May 2009]
Inbox: Brits ditching mobiles? Fat chance
Comment Transport for London has confirmed it will road-test speed-limiting technology within the M25 area - as reported on silicon.com last year. This is not new technology, it's just a "Road Angel" connected... [18 May 2009]
Speed-limiter tech trial coming this summer
News Today TfL announced a six-month trial of the Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) tech will start this summer, with the aim of exploring ways of reducing road deaths. Chris Lines, Head of TfL's London... [11 May 2009]
'Invest £15bn in tech - create 700,000 jobs'
News The report, The UK's digital road to recovery, presents an economic model for working out how many jobs could be created if the government put major investment into a high-speed broadband rollout, a smart power grid and... [30 Apr 2009]
iPhone 3.0, Windows 7, robots and the office of the future
Photo Here's Google's own HQ in London: Belgrave House, Buckingham Palace Road in Victoria. The month of March was a historical one for all those working in tech, as the industry celebrated the 20th... [07 Apr 2009]
