failed in comment and analysis
Directors' Cut: David Taylor on the fear of failure
Comment The trouble is, they failed to tell the founders of lastminute.com, or smile.co.uk or egg, whose philosophy and attitude was somewhat different. Never before has journalistic cliché so flourished and thrived out of control. [18 Jan 2000]
Keeping up with the Joneses - the UMTS licence race
Comment Vodafone, for all its past growth and present takeover manoeuvring, has failed to articulate its next-generation plans. Last Tuesday, Vodafone AirTouch, the world's largest operator of mobile networks, revealed its plans to launch a global Internet... [17 Jan 2000]
Flat Eric quits the Web as Levi's finds ecommerce doesn't fit
Comment It's easy to say that Levi's has failed - but maybe it's done the right thing by cutting its losses. At the end of last month, jeans manufacturer, Levi's, announced it was ending a year-long 'trial' of selling its clothes online. [24 Nov 1999]
Nasdaq in Europe: the stakes are high for high-tech exchanges
Comment He said: "AIM has failed in brand terms. At the beginning of November, the US National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) - best known for its New York-based electronic exchange, the Nasdaq - named London as the chosen hub for its Nasdaq... [17 Nov 1999]
Corel draws inspiration from Linux
Comment Corel Corporation is banking on Linux to give it a healthy future. In August this year, it launched a desktop version of the operating system, called Corel Linux based on the Debian/GNU distribution of the Linux OS, and includes the K Desktop... [29 Oct 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: Home networking, SMEs and Y2K, and making money from the Web
Comment But for the vast majority of organisations in the UK who have so far failed to use the Internet for anything more than brochureware - it cannot be ignored. Some concepts refuse to die, even when they don't succeed first - or second - time around. [17 Oct 1999]
IT and the culture of blame
Comment They missed their deadline" "their technology doesn't work" "their products failed to live up to the hype". Their products failed to live up to the hype. When IT projects go wrong - and it's safe to assume that for every one that gets publicity... [28 Aug 1999]
They seek him here... that elusive e-envoy
Comment The words 'Internet Tsar' have been whispered along the halls of Whitehall for some time. Some of the more progressive types claim we need a champion of IT - an 'e-envoy' - who would head something like a Department of the Internet. [09 Aug 1999]
Informix is dead. Long live Informix?
Comment The launch of its Universal Server database was hailed as a new dawn, but the company failed to turn those claims into sales. Database specialist, Informix, has struggled recently to hang onto market share in the face of aggressive competition from... [03 Aug 1999]
Web caching and the law: defending the EC legislators
Comment In general, the Commission's proposals on liability provide a regime very similar to that recently agreed in the US in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, with the addition of the availability of injunctive relief, presumably designed to provide... [25 Feb 1999]
Don't forget the customers!
Comment Over 40 per cent of the top names from the travel, publishing and retail sectors failed to answer emails from customers within seven days - or failed to do so altogether. You know the feeling: you visit a company's Web site, you want more... [03 Jan 1999]
XML: The future of...everything?
Comment But the industry's littered with good ideas that failed to deliver. The IT industry has a new infatuation: extensible mark-up language (XML). To listen to some people, you could be excused for believing that XML will solve every data need you'll... [26 Nov 1998]
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