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Inside Intel: A vendor dossier
Comment And as Chuck Malloy, oft-quoted Intel spokesman, told silicon.com: "We built one of the most lucrative franchises in the history of industrialised society. The point is that server sales may ebb and flow from one quarter to another but the meta... [30 Sep 2002]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The 3G chasm - deeper than we thought
Comment The vast majority of telephone calls and certainly almost all of the SMS text messages that are now sent constitute very little value in terms of contribution to society and mankind's progress. Something really trivial like building a small camera... [01 Aug 2002]
The key to keeping staff happy
Comment Compare the chip giant with building society Nationwide, for instance. According to the Sunday Times, the best company in the UK to work for this year is Asda. Its staff turnover is an incredible two per cent despite the fact that a starting salary... [25 Mar 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Could the next killer app be human?
Comment Few in modern society work simply for their own needs as most of us rely on complex webs of exchange for goods and services. Years ago, I was a young programmer, building corporate systems on mainframes equipped with less memory than a mobile phone. [20 Nov 2001]
John Lamb's week: E-marketers say show me the money
Comment A Hansard Society fringe meeting will be asking "What do we want from MPs' websites? The e-skills NTO, supported by Department for Education and Skills, is launching IT4all at Microsoft Building 3, Thames Valley Business Park, [21 Sep 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Sorting the holiday snaps from the smut
Comment Customers already include Scottish and Southern Energy, Cheltenham and Gloucester building society and FirstActive bank. Horror novelist Stephen King had a crack at publishing a novel over the internet, now the house lights dim on what is described... [29 Jun 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Thank you India, McCashless fast food, and web services wars
Comment The uptake of such electronic payment systems will probably be extremely rapid in those sectors of society affluent enough to take part. IBM is competing strongly in the market for building ebusiness infrastructure. [04 Jun 2001]
The earthquake in Gujarat: Where disaster recovery really means something
Comment But Gujarat was in the process of building its first 'InfoCity', a state-of-the-art campus with its own optical fibre network, ISDN and telephone exchanges designed to house a new breed of technology companies and take the state into the 21st... [29 Jan 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Mac OS X, virtual justice and MS C# versus Java
Comment It would be nice to see these services improve, but for the benefit of society not the government, and for the benefit of business not the regulator. A billion is a massive investment for any government into ecommerce, even taking into... [29 Jan 2001]
Finland's argument for a smartcard future
Comment Since this introduction, secure electronic transactions have become central to Finnish society and are now building blocks as vital as railroads and highways were in the last century. In December 1999 Finland became the first country to offer its... [30 Aug 2000]
A brighter future for European online investors?
Comment A UK investor selling several hundred pounds of shares in a demutualised building society or even a company privatised in the 1980s probably wouldn't balk at a £25 transaction fee. Online share trading in the US - enabled by companies like... [01 Jun 1999]
Communication is the key: Silicon.com's IT on Board event
Comment One of the few IT directors to have made it to the very top is Brian Davies, now CEO of Nationwide building society. The strongest messages to come out of Silicon.com's IT on Board conference were that IT deserves a place in the upper echelons of... [18 Feb 1999]
Beware the millennium cowboy
Comment In the UK, the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) and the British Computer Society currently promote levels of professionalism among IT organisations. Once the fraudsters have got into the building, they access confidential... [03 Sep 1998]
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