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Doing a bit of work - or doing a bit of shopping?
News At work? Or doing a little web shopping? According to new research, there's a good chance you could be both. A report from market researchers comScore has found more than a third of money spent on internet purchases in the UK comes from... [24 Jul 2009]
A public sector romance and 10 per cent UK headcount cut
News Indian outsourcer TCS has cut its UK headcount by around 10 per cent to control costs in a stagnant market. UK and Europe head at the outsourcer, AS Lakshmi, told silicon.com TCS has reduced the size of its UK workforce to 4,500 people... [07 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.02.09
Round-Up Sticking with the subject of online romance for just a little longer, nearly half of under 21s and 18 per cent of 22-30-year-olds dumped a boyfriend or girlfriend (probably a grumpy sysadmin who would never open an... [13 Feb 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.01.09
Round-Up The course is part of the social skills section of the IT course and is designed to ease entry into the world of work and office romance. Sadly, given the long hours there's little time for love and... [16 Jan 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.08.08
Round-Up It appears travellers have their minds on duty-free flip-flops and summer romance and are misplacing laptops willy-nilly. It's not often the Round-Up gets riled. Well, other than at crying babies on planes, cars parked... [01 Aug 2008]
All Versions of Office Can Play Nice - Crabby Shows You How
White Paper One gets to know the Ribbon (which is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface), the user and that Office button have a little office romance going on, and one is creating skyscrapers with the building blocks... [11 Apr 2008]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News Those entering online dating forums risk having more than their hearts stolen. A program that can mimic online flirtation and then extract personal information from its unsuspecting conversation partners is making the rounds in Russian... [10 Dec 2007]
Is chip and PIN really a success?
News Back on Valentine's Day this year, romance was not the only thing on the minds of retailers and bankers. Because that day six months ago was also the deadline for the introduction of chip and PIN terminals in retailers... [15 Aug 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.04.06
Round-Up The company's first gambit was a press release on its website announcing the beta launch of an innovative new service - Google Romance. Oddly, the company decided to avoid making any "I'm feeling lucky" references with... [07 Apr 2006]
CIO Jury: Techies put computers before Cupid
News Three-quarters of IT bosses say they would put business before romance - and risk having their best suits cut into shreds by cancelling a Valentine's Day dinner if a crisis came up in the office. Nine of silicon.com's... [13 Feb 2006]
2006: Mature offshoring, mainstream open source and more
News Another prediction for 2006 is that the search industry will become truly global, giving rise to more non-Romance language search engines. 2006 will give rise to sophisticated attitudes towards offshoring, mainstream... [02 Feb 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.01.06
Round-Up The Round-Up has learned this week that more and more people are finding romance in the work place. It's been a week of déjà vu at Silicon Towers and there are parts of the Round-Up this week which touch common ground... [13 Jan 2006]
Microsoft: IT isn't sexy enough
News There needs to be more of a sense of romance and magic, says Kevin Schofield, general manager of Microsoft Research communications and strategy. At Microsoft's annual gathering with university researchers, executives... [19 Jul 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.02.05
Round-Up At the other end of the romance chart was this email from a silicon.com reader, who we will call 'Clive Miller' - because that's his name - following an appeal in last week's Round-Up for stories about love blossoming... [18 Feb 2005]
PeopleSoft farce: Larry - what were you thinking?
Comment Gerstner, ever the pragmatic diplomat, also went out of his way to romance Ray Ozzie, the creator of Notes, the groupware program especially coveted by Big Blue. Is Oracle's hostile bid to buy PeopleSoft smart or just... [19 Jul 2004]
