Photos: How Old PCs Are Creating Opportunities
News Photo credit: Will Sturgeon As for the cycle challenge itself, three employees from ZDNet UK's publisher, CNET Networks UK — (from left) Will Sturgeon, managing editor of silicon.com; Helen Cooke, marketing manager of CNET Networks UK; and Andrew...
[February 14, 2007, 15:22]
Do Your Bit To Bridge Africa's Digital Divide
News ZDNet UK's own executive editor, Andrew Donoghue, will be one of the team of three cycling across Kenya, accompanied by silicon.com's Will Sturgeon and CNET Networks UK's Helen Cooke. Next February three employees from CNET Networks UK, publisher...
[October 13, 2006, 17:20]
Juniper Loses Two Key Executives
News The networking and security equipment maker, which competes against Cisco Systems, said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that chief financial officer Bob Dykes and Robert Sturgeon, executive vice president of its...
[March 14, 2007, 8:16]
Kenya IT Computer Aid Cycle Challenge!
Blog Together with two colleagues from CNET Networks, Will Sturgeon and Helen Cooke, I'm taking part in a cycle challenge on 2 February 2007 to raise money for the IT charity Computer Aid. Less than two weeks now till I am off to Kenya.
[January 25, 2007, 11:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog For virtuous reasons, ZDNet's own Andrew Donoghue and silicon.com's Will Sturgeon have organised a hacks vs flacks rounders competition in Hyde Park. Thursday 17/8/2006 What a day. For reasons too immensely dull to go into, the afternoon is taken...
[August 18, 2006, 20:35]
Photos: Computer Aid For Castro's Cuba
News The Cuba challenge follows on from a similar challenge earlier this year in Kenya, which saw figures from the UK IT industry and leading technology journalists — including silicon.com's Will Sturgeon, CNET's Helen Cooke and ZDNet.co.uk's Andrew...
[May 25, 2007, 18:00]
Clarke Joins Latest Cyberterror Debate
Talkback Hundreds of your readers have repeatedly brought the following to our attention and we are concerned to read the articles, which have been authored by your colleagues Dan Ilett and Will Sturgeon, because they are factually incorrect and therefore...
[February 11, 2005, 15:59]
Cyberterror Threats Dismissed
Talkback Hundreds of your readers have repeatedly brought the following to our attention and we are concerned to read the articles, which have been authored by your colleagues Dan Ilett and Will Sturgeon, because they are factually incorrect and therefore...
[February 11, 2005, 16:03]
Swedes Detain Ganda Worm Suspect
News Silicon.com's Will Sturgeon contributed to this report. Swedish police have detained a man suspected of writing the Ganda worm, which played on public interest in the current Iraq conflict to spread a dangerous payload.
[March 26, 2003, 12:30]
Unemployment Highest Among IT Graduates
News The Hecsu survey is based on responses from 206,965 out of the 256,460 students who graduated in the summer of 2005.silicon.com's Will Sturgeon contributed to this article IT graduates have the highest unemployment rate across all degree subjects...
[January 3, 2007, 15:23]
Poor Performance 'cost E-tailers £300m' Over Christmas
News Silicon.com's Will Sturgeon contributed to this report Internet retailers missed out on an estimated £300m of trade over the Christmas period because their Web sites had fallen over or were taking too long to load, according to recent research.
[January 15, 2004, 16:25]
O2 To Offer Video Downloads
News Silicon.com's Will Sturgeon contributed to this report. Mobile network operator O2 UK will begin trials of a wireless video service with 350 of its mobile phone customers at the end of this month, ahead of a possible commercial launch later this year.
[April 16, 2003, 12:07]
Sun Wins NHS Desktop Deal
News Silicon.com's Will Sturgeon contributed to this report. Sun Microsystems has landed a deal that will see its Java Desktop System (JDS) software deployed on 5,000 desktop PCs across the UK's National Health Service.
[August 31, 2004, 17:00]
New Rules Outlaw Hand-held Mobile Use While Driving
News Silicon.com's Will Sturgeon contributed to this report. Motorists caught using a mobile phone while driving will be on the wrong side of the law from Monday, with the government ban finally coming into effect at midnight.
[December 1, 2003, 14:45]
Lawyers Divided Over Amazon IPaq Case
News Silicon.com's Will Sturgeon contributed to this story. Disgruntled customers who last week attempted to buy cheap iPaqs from Amazon.co.uk might be able to demand their rights in court. However, in this complex legal area, it is likely that Amazon...
[March 25, 2003, 13:18]
UK Education System Failing Tech Industry
News Silicon.com’s Will Sturgeon contributed to this report. The UK education system is failing to turn out the kind of school leavers that the technology industry requires to stay competitive with China, India and Eastern Europe, the Confederation of...
[August 14, 2006, 14:35]
Video: Embracing The Hacker Community
News Security experts have hit out at the notion that there are benefits to be had from engaging with cybercriminals in order to understand emerging threats. However, many are calling on the industry and media to recognise the work of so-called "ethical...
[May 2, 2007, 16:34]
Support Grows For Thin-client Computing
News Given the number of recent stories revealing how many laptops get stolen each year, it is perhaps no surprise that companies are looking at ways of securing their corporate data. And at the Citrix iForum this week there was no shortage of advocates...
[June 6, 2007, 16:38]
Schneier Questions Need For Security Industry
News Outspoken author and security guru Bruce Schneier has questioned the very existence of the security industry, suggesting it merely indicates the willingness of other technology companies to ship insecure software and hardware.
[April 26, 2007, 11:48]
Halifax Theft Exposes Customer Mortgage Data
News UK high street bank Halifax has admitted stolen documents from one of its employees contained data on 13,000 mortgage customers. The documents were in a briefcase stolen from the locked car of an employee last week and the bank yesterday started...
[March 27, 2007, 14:52]

