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Cash won't cut it: Time to get creative in attracting skilled workers
Comment Talented staff are not as hard to find as you may think, says Jim Mortleman. Jim Mortleman is a business and technology writer, commentator, consultant and speaker. As career analyst and author Dan Pink... [13 Oct 2009]
Business in the 21st century: Stay tuned for brave new world
Comment Business leaders - take note: web technologies are poised to change everything - economic, political and social - says Jim Mortleman. Jim Mortleman is a business and technology writer, commentator,... [11 Aug 2009]
Photos: From robot teachers to Microsoft Surface
Photo The robot's creator, Jim Wyatt, told silicon.com that 10 UK schools are currently testing out ED-E in the classroom. Asus also demonstrated its multi-battery charger that can take up to 14 batteries at a time, enabling a... [19 Jan 2009]
Kids should be taught tech 'from age seven'
News The review by Sir Jim Rose, a former inspector with schools watchdog Ofsted, has found IT teaching has failed to keep pace with young people's increasing computer literacy. Primary school children should... [08 Dec 2008]
Free PCs and broadband for 20,000 kids
News Schools minister Jim Knight said the current economic climate should not reinforce social and academic divides that could put children from lower income families at an even greater disadvantage. In a statement Knight... [22 Oct 2008]
Gov't to spend £300m on free broadband for UK's poor
News Brown said in the speech: "We want to enable all families to use the internet to link back to their children's school - and so [schools minister] Jim Knight is announcing that we will fund over a million... [23 Sep 2008]
Open source owes popularity to anti-US vibe?
News Anti-US feelings are boosting the international market for open source software, according to the president and chief executive of Red Hat, Jim Whitehurst - while other commentators prefer to credit national pride in... [27 Mar 2008]
£30m funding for "universal" broadband
News In his speech at education tech show, Bett 2008, minister for schools and learners Jim Knight said: "We have the highest levels of embedded technology in classrooms in European Union and one computer for every three pupils. [09 Jan 2008]
Plan to give all school kids broadband access
News The initiative, which is being led by schools minister Jim Knight, also includes parents having access to online updates of their children's performance and behaviour. All of England and Wales' six million... [04 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook
Comment Jim Price, Kenilworth Tech-savvy school-leavers 'lack basic skills' Employers have been complaining about school leavers lacking basic skills for years. What's got silicon.com readers... [23 Aug 2007]
Techies of tomorrow get their exam grades
News Schools minister Jim Knight said it is encouraging to see the number of students taking maths, modern languages and science subjects on the rise and - in the case of maths - that there has been a 14 per cent rise in... [16 Aug 2007]
Apple riding wave of iPhone hype
News Jim Lattin, a professor of marketing at Stanford University's graduate business school, said: "They simply do a masterful job of capturing the imagination of just about everyone. As iPhone Week dawns,... [26 Jun 2007]
AP tarts up its online video platform
News The new platform, however, uses technology developed specifically for the news wire service, according to Jim Kathman, AP's director of product management for global broadcast. They may want to compliment a local news... [08 Mar 2007]
Leader: 'Changing of the guard' for the 2006 Agenda Setters
Leader One surprise Agenda Setter already shaping corporate IT is BP VP Jim Ginsburgh (17), who was chosen for his ground-breaking scheme of giving employees an allowance in exchange for not using the company's IT support. [25 Sep 2006]
Leader: 'Changing of the guard' for the 2006 Agenda Setters
AS Analysis One surprise Agenda Setter already shaping corporate IT is BP VP Jim Ginsburgh (17), who was chosen for his ground-breaking scheme of giving employees an allowance in exchange for not using the company's IT support. [25 Sep 2006]
