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How tech can make us greener

Comment Longer term there is a significant environmental gain to be had from using technology to replace or displace other activities - to use the consumer example, engineering the process to not require bottles at all. [24 May 2007]

Go real-time with your data

Comment This has given rise to the notion of the 'real-time enterprise' and vendors of time business intelligence (BI) software are increasingly talking about how their BI tools can enable faster decision-making at the right time. [15 Mar 2007]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: RFID - what can it do for the business?

Comment What makes the identity of items more valuable is the overall Idea - IDentity plus Environment plus Action - using the context or environment the object is in and an understanding of how this will generate activities or affect business processes. [16 Mar 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: The work/life balancing act

Comment However, this is not simply the personal phone call or email to friends for a chat or a bit of casual surfing but increasingly the need to conduct personal or domestic activities online or using the mobile phone, as retailers and domestic service... [19 Jan 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Service management

Comment For example, more than 80 per cent of respondents were confident that such alignments would result in improved business processes, better support for customer-facing activities and reduced overall costs. [20 Oct 2005]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: A single source for net protection

Comment Network firewalls are used to shut them all down and then selectively reopen them for specific activities. So are the worlds of HTTP and SMTP filtering so far apart that businesses will always have to deal with two sets of vendors to control the... [06 Oct 2005]

First blood to Microsoft in Google hiring feud

News In his 13-page ruling, Judge Steven Gonzalez restricted Lee to recruiting for Google in China and to talking to government officials about getting a licence to do business there but said Lee cannot work on technologies such as search or speech. [14 Sep 2005]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: IT too arrogant?

Comment IT exists to automate some business activities and to better enable others - for example, building on the work of the telcos to provide a data communications network that spans the globe. Historically when times are good IT vendors start to believe... [15 Oct 2004]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Wireless - who's ready to commit?

Comment We could speculate that organisations have not yet had a chance to properly evaluate the results of their initial activities, but this is generally not the case. Businesses say they're excited about rolling out wireless but few large scale... [03 Sep 2004]

The Bloor Perspective: Globalisation, Novell and smart supply chains

Comment It is strange to hear Novell talking of a need to raise brand awareness. Its aim is to link internet-based activities with traditional business processes through the delivery of infrastructure features such as security, authentication and... [27 Nov 2000]

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