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A tale of two telcos
Comment It is not difficult to identify the overriding problem here - timing. Austria Telekom made its Vienna and New York debuts this morning. Its asking price, $14, was at the bottom of the scale but that didn't prevent a rocky day. [21 Nov 2000]
New media marketing and old media muscle
Comment As broadcasters identify potentially lucrative ad slots, dot-coms will pay more for them. Internet companies are going offline to encourage customers to spend money on the web. This may sound ironic, but as dot-com companies struggle to capture a... [02 Aug 2000]
The Electronic B@zaar: Part 2 - the four hinges
Comment Finally, websites like AltaVista and Ask Jeeves are based entirely on the search engine, a mechanism that allows an individual to identify multiple sources of information at once. **The four hinges** In order to understand a door, it is only... [28 Jun 2000]
Online help: can the web set the political agenda?
Comment But this does beg an important question: what is the point of politicians recognising that social inclusion and the internet can go hand in hand if they don't identify ways of financing the partnership? [21 Jun 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM's big blues, Citrix's ASP success, and boo.com's deepening crisis
Comment Citrix has been able to identify itself strongly with the need of the ASP to provide centralised application management with good-quality, low-bandwidth user access. The first quarter of 2000 showed revenues falling year-on-year by five per cent to... [15 May 2000]
The Directors' Cut: David Taylor on psychology in the workplace
Comment We all crave to be accepted by people we identify with. People identify with specific groups - be they IT directors, general leaders or social standing in clubs or groups. Ensure people in IT feel they belong to their project and teams and can... [15 Feb 2000]
How ecommerce has repainted the storage landscape
Comment For example, EMC launched its 'E-proven' initiative in October last year, which claims to identify best practice in enterprise storage for Internet-based businesses - based, of course, on EMC technology. [10 Jan 2000]
To forge an effective security policy, forget the firewall
Comment Passwords "just aren't safe", he claimed, and the only way to be sure of security is to positively identify and monitor any traffic on your network. According to a report published by research house IDC earlier this year, the Internet security... [20 Dec 1999]
Public menace: why things aren't jolly in the land of giant PFIs
Comment So when Liberal Democrat MP, Simon Hughes, tabled a question in the House of Commons seeking to identify the shortcomings in the Home Office, no one was greatly surprised to discover that IT projects were late and over budget. [23 Nov 1999]
The IT missionaries: preaching privatisation for Africa's telcos
Comment Nevertheless, it's one thing to identify the problems it's quite another to come up with a solution. Four years ago, during his keynote address at the World Telecoms 95 conference, Nelson Mandela heralded South Africa's first representation in the... [15 Sep 1999]
HP and Compaq: a tale of two CEOs
Comment Capellas, meanwhile, is going to find it far easier to identify the symptoms of his company's problems than the cure. A week ago on this very page, the stark contrast between two of today's computing monoliths was the subject of scrutiny. [28 Jul 1999]
Strategic Vision: Giga Information Group on CRM
Comment Clearly identify the business goals. The best way to view enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications is that they support the business process needs of an organisation. Primarily, they have focused on the foundation (planning/managing) part of... [09 Jun 1999]
Linux Special: Case study - Powys County Council
Comment With Linux, it's easier for people to identify where the holes are, whereas with NT you have to take Microsoft's word for it that there are no holes there. Around two years ago, Powys County Council in Wales started using Linux - and hasn't looked... [25 May 1999]
New Labour, old procurement mistakes?
Comment Over the next five years, Labour has promised to review all central and local government services and activities to "identify the best supplier in each case". The UK government unveiled its Modernising Government White Paper this week, and had the... [01 Apr 1999]
The Trials of Microsoft - lessons from the past (Part 1)
Comment The divide between operating systems, desktop applications and Web tools is difficult to identify. The critics who believe that Microsoft is abusing its desktop dominance have come up with one obvious solution: split the company in half. [15 Nov 1998]
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