stories of the year

Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs

News Last quarter Apple reported a 17 per cent year-on-year rise in Mac sales - far above the mean for PC sales, as silicon.com's resident Apple columnist Seb Janacek noted in this popular... [09 Nov 2009]

iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained

News From later on this year, the iPhone will be available on Orange, as well as Vodafone.iPhone users are well-known as some of the biggest data consumers in... [06 Oct 2009]

Photos: Five mobiles of the future unveiled

Photo More photo stories: Apps to transform your iPhone into an office More photo stories: Reebok's iPhone app creates user-generated designs More photo stories: Top 10 smartphones you could... [19 Aug 2009]

Microsoft after Gates, Google Chrome, ID cards, printer woes and more

News silicon.com's top stories for July are an eclectic bunch - from calls for an offshoring tax, to work on cows that don't fart to one man's epic struggle to get an all-in-one printer simply to work. This July marks one... [03 Aug 2009]

Happy birthday silicon.com

News The UK's leading business and technology publication first saw the light of day on 6 July 1998 with a party at London's Natural History Museum and has been making and breaking... [06 Jul 2009]

Apple bonanza, crime breathalysers and broadband tax

News O2 wasted no time in sharing details of the iPhone's UK pricing - revealing the new version would be offered at a higher price than its predecessor was when it launched a... [02 Jul 2009]

The top 10 alternatives to Google search

Photo As a result, Twitterers can now discover which stories have momentum building around them in real-time. Such pages offer a slew of well-organised and interesting content including encyclopaedia entries,... [16 Jun 2009]

When will organisations pay for data breaches?

Comment Data losses have provided the UK press with an ongoing stream of stories for more than 18 months now. More than a year after appearing on the statute... [02 Jun 2009]

Shocking iPods, netbooks and an offshoring backlash

News For those not blessed with a head for DIY telecoms engineering, this month saw news that BT is to double the speed at which it rolls out fibre to the cabinet - bringing faster broadband in reach... [01 Jun 2009]

Sage chief on Gen Y and tackling the recession

Comment With 5.8 million customers, annual revenue of nearly £1.3bn and as a member of the FTSE 100, Sage is, along with Autonomy, one of the success... [28 Apr 2009]

When IT security becomes a gothic horror story

Comment Beyond the link with cryptography, Poe is, of course, best known for his stories of threatening Gothic gloom and madness. One of the... [21 Apr 2009]

Inbox: Chip and PIN latest big IDea - and still no readers

Comment Don't forget to post your own response to any of these stories or comments below. The UK will have no way of reading the data stored on ID cards until... [20 Apr 2009]

Google Street View, dirty mobiles, Gen Y and a new iPhone

News Stories of the month - March 2009 Click on the links below to read the stories everyone is talking about. This month, silicon.com also... [03 Apr 2009]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: RIP newspapers

Comment And perhaps more significant: it will now do less original reporting and more regurgitation of stories from multiple sources. Some days there is no news, or at least no news of interest... [23 Mar 2009]

Inbox: Thin clients dealt Defra death blow?

Comment Don't forget to post your own response to any of these stories or comments by clicking here. One of Whitehall's largest departments has rejected thin client technology - less than a... [05 Mar 2009]

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