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Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment Please note, comments may be edited for clarity, grammar, spelling, punctuation and style. The issue that got readers talking this week was the IT-teacher drought - is "boring" IT to blame? Also getting readers reaching for their keyboards this... [03 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment Please note, comments may be edited for clarity, grammar, spelling, punctuation and style. First thing on readers' hit-lists this month was the government plan for prisoners to gain IT skills.then readers found a moment to engage in some iPhone... [19 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment Police State big style. Please note, comments may be edited for clarity, grammar, spelling, punctuation and style. Windows Vista's on the agenda again and this time silicon.com readers are debating whether the latest OS is really business-friendly. [12 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Migrant techies and BBC web budget busters…
Comment Please note, comments may be edited for clarity, grammar, spelling, punctuation and style. Two things in particular this week have been getting silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards in despair or admiration; the first being the claim the... [05 Jun 2008]
Qwerty beats touch for smart phone fans
News While more than half (59 per cent) of respondents to the latest silicon.com reader poll prefer a traditional keyboard on their smart phone, a touchscreen was still seen as a better bet for a substantial chunk (41 per cent) - suggesting iPhone... [02 Jun 2008]
Qwerty vs touch, WFH, iPhone 2.0, Segway madness
News Speaking to silicon.com in an exclusive interview, RIM's Mike Lazaridis also poured cold water on iPhone-style touchscreen tech ("this is not new… this has been tried before") - and claimed the future of mobile lies with Qwerty keyboards. [30 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…
Comment Please note, comments may be edited for clarity, grammar, spelling, punctuation and style. First up this week, readers were engaging in debate over the pros and cons of outsourcing. Then we have silicon.com resident Naked CIO who has been ruffling... [08 May 2008]
Write Better Legal Documents With Microsoft Word
White Paper One can use Microsoft Word to check the document for grammatical errors and to point out instances where the document does not conform to the style guidelines one has selected. Grammatical errors and stylistic inconsistencies can distract readers... [23 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Surfing at home, 'Big Brother' IT and batteries on planes…
Comment Please note, comments may be edited for clarity, grammar, spelling, punctuation and style. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this... [10 Jan 2008]
HMRC data blunder to sink ID cards?
News Another reader, ex-RAF cryptographer Paul Howard, said the government's delay in making the data loss public underlines the need for the UK to adopt Californian-style data breach legislation "to ensure the loss of personal records are notified... [22 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Data breach row, hotel iMac, wi-fi piggybacking: yay or nay?
Comment Please note, comments may be edited for clarity - but are not corrected for grammar, spelling, punctuation or style. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Wi-fi piggybacking is OK, say silicon.com readers [22 Nov 2007]
Blog standard
AS Analysis And in response the mainstream press has increasingly added blog-style content to its mix. One of the advantages that bloggers have is the ability to hold a conversation with their readers, and then incorporate their submissions. [12 Oct 2007]
Naked PCs: The naked truth
News For example, software engineer David Fletcher blamed "the likes of Microsoft" for dumbing down PC users by encouraging them to adopt a 'toaster-style' mentality towards their PCs: "They don't seem to realise that a PC is NOT an item of consumer... [02 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... ID cards, Auntie's iPlayer, generation web 2.0, robot wars
Comment Old style IT was so cumbersome and expensive that it virtually paralysed innovation and managers with poor IT skills could not overcome these barriers. Please note, comments may be edited for clarity - but are not corrected for grammar, spelling... [16 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.08.07
Round-Up Gibson's latest book - Spook Country - is set in the recent past rather than a Bladerunner-style future dystopia of mind-altering substances, seductive hackers and hard-boiled anti-heroes. Then go straight to this week's Caption Competition - where... [10 Aug 2007]
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