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RSS examplesMicrosoft verdict: CSSA slams Microsoft's "poor market awareness" defence
News He told silicon.com: "There are examples in some areas of IT, such as the copyright arena, that the law has not kept up with technology, but this is competition law and the US courts have come to a decision based on that... [09 Jun 2000]
The Value Proposition: power, information and the European Union
Comment The European Union finds time to regulate far too many aspects of our lives, often adding to national laws and standards - examples here include plumbing systems in our houses and electrical wiring. Ebusiness exposes... [31 May 2000]
Alcatel pans current voice-over-IP services
News We are trying to prove to them that they can do it and it is reliable by offering proof from independent lab tests but until a vendor can point to 12 or 100 examples which are in and working then it is not a mainstream... [12 May 2000]
The Silicon.com Survey: RIP and you
Comment But Home Office literature covering the use of encryption in crime includes examples rather than statistics. The Home Office's Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill has evaded prolonged protest among the... [11 Apr 2000]
Silicon.com heralds top 50 IT Agenda Setters of 2000
Comment Examples include Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos (6), General Electric's Jack Welch (9), Richard Branson (11) and Stelios Haji-Ioannou (10) of easyJet and easyEverything fame. Silicon.com's Agenda Setter 2000 poll makes one... [15 Mar 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Mobile Linux, crazy CEOs and an ASP success story
Comment Examples include the creation of hybrid distribution channels and a cannibalization of a company's product lines. Mobile Linux is an OS for diskless mobile systems. It is ROM-based, with a low memory footprint and claims... [06 Feb 2000]
Directors' Cut: David Taylor on the fear of failure
Comment Continuous Improvement" and "Total Quality" are two rallying cries that have taken us nowhere, and are classic examples of squashing general catch-all standards into unique organisations, while simply providing an... [18 Jan 2000]
Y2K spells delays for Johnson & Johnson
News Robin Guenier, executive director at Taskforce 2000, said these are good examples of what can happen if the process isn't thought through properly. Two North American companies are already feeling the impact of the... [18 Nov 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: Sun on Wall Street, Microsoft on desktop, and the lost dreams of free ISPs
Comment Let's take some examples. Just as the world was looking to the UK to lead the way in the free Internet Service Provider market, the ISPs appear to have dropped the baton. Currantbun.com - the News International ISP being... [25 Oct 1999]
Ecommerce watchdog drives consumer protection
News Sylvan listed a litany of complaints and examples, such as: the large number of returns long delays for refunds and even initial delivery - including 10 per cent of orders not arriving. International guidelines to... [13 Sep 1999]
Linux users get free security guide
News The 120 page document offers information, examples and resources to help make the operating system more secure. The first official security guide for Linux users and administrators has been released on the Web. [28 Apr 1999]
CRM: More than just a pretty acronym?
Comment That's about to change, as two recent examples show. IT vendors' current focus on the potential of customer relationship management (CRM) technology is verging on the obsessive. But recent developments show CRM to be... [27 Apr 1999]
Vodafone offers secret love messages
News The UK mobile communications company has also identified a new language amongst users of the service: R U 3 2 NITE, WAN2 C U L8R and WOT U DOIN L8R are examples of the language used to keep messages concise. [04 Feb 1999]
The mobile threat: Let the user decide
Comment History is littered with examples of inconclusive scientific evidence proving scary enough for people to take precautions. Burning ears, twitching eyes, headaches, tumours.if 3,000 people came to you with these symptoms... [01 Dec 1998]
The high price of mergers and acquisitions
Comment The Compaq/Digital and Bay/Nortel deals are fine examples of companies with overlapping technology merging to form genuine powerhouses. Mergers and acquisitions appear to have become an unstoppable force in the IT... [24 Nov 1998]
