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Football - game or product?
Comment Football clubs still command intense loyalty, often based on their locality. Martin Brampton isn't a big football fan but even he is aware of the current wave of World Cup hysteria. Here he says the fan-club relationship can tell us a lot about IT... [28 May 2002]
HP buys Compaq - what next?
Comment The Pavilion and Presario lines from HP and Compaq respectively both command large market shares, though in the US consumer market Pavilion has the edge, touché Presario for corporates. Just two hours before the combined HP-Compaq addresses the... [07 May 2002]
Inside Ariba: A vendor dossier
Comment CEO number two, Larry Mueller, was in command. From e-marketplaces to spend management, the irony is that now this B2B trailblazer has to manage to get customers to spend. Sonya Rabbitte sidles up. Bob Calderoni is a man with a vision. [19 Mar 2002]
The Ovum View: Speech - IT meets telephony?
Comment However, basic command and control can be programmed into a small device of modest power. Speech input and output to IT systems has passed the credibility threshold. Systems that can make sense of punters placing on-course bets prove the resilience... [07 Jan 2002]
Windows XP: Five reasons to be cheerful
Comment The not-yet-released power toys (including a Super Fast User Switcher, as well as Virtual Desktop Manager, Command Window Here, TweakUI and Alt-Tab replacement) should have already been included. Some corporates still cling to the command-and... [24 Oct 2001]
Best of Reader Comments: An all-Microsoft special
Comment It does not command nearly 50 per cent of the server market. In a silicon.com exclusive, a senior security chief at Microsoft has claimed that the company's much-maligned IIS web server software is not as unreliable as many claim. [12 Oct 2001]
Model Management: Information overload, or short attention span?
Comment Mintzberg's aim was to track what managers actually did during their working day and contrast it with what they were classically supposed to do - forecast, plan, organise, command, communicate, control and so on. [04 Sep 2001]
The Director's Cut: The art of war - and ebusiness
Comment He commanded the Southern armies throughout the war, and allegedly knew the name of every officer under his command (over 400). General Lee was actually offered field command of the US Army by President Lincoln. [01 Aug 2001]
Model Management: A tale of entrepreneurial persistence
Comment His sustained command of an accelerating technological environment for more than half a century greatly impressed the panel of judges. Well surely then fresh-faced kids straight out of Silicon Valley or Cambridge (either the English university town... [12 Jun 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Cute C&W, that elusive Linux desktop and Proxicom's suitors
Comment Its intention was to extend the Gnome interface so that command entry was no longer a requirement and, as a result, make the Linux environment more palatable as a desktop solution. Coverage of telecoms in recent weeks has centred on that old... [21 May 2001]
Ticket to ride: cheap flights, big money
Comment Between them they have long controlled about three-quarters of the US domestic market, and according to a study by an MIT academic, Orbitz has the capacity to command up to 85 per cent of US online sales. [29 Mar 2001]
Ginger: Marketable myth or monster of misinformation?
Comment The original story was published by tech news website inside.com last week, low on facts and high on speculation. Within days the information had spread around the net and onto the pages of the UK weekend newspapers. [16 Jan 2001]
The best of 'Reader Comments': mobile phone masts on churches, IT directors on the up and air-tight storage
Comment Indeed, congregations are in decline and the church doesn't seem to command the audiences it once did, so the minimum of £5,000 per annum seems a divine intervention to me. At the end of last week, we wrote about cash-strapped churches allowing... [07 Dec 2000]
Biometrics: When will the industry come to its senses?
Comment Will it be a voice command which allows instant access to a building or an iris scan installed at an ATM machine? With public confidence in IT security at times appearing to crumble in the face of recent security blunders, the wonder of biometrics... [30 Nov 2000]
Vodafone's Chris Gent: No need for rainmakers in the UK?
Comment They object to his pay packet and the structure of the contracts Gent and other top Vodafone executives now command. Earlier this year, silicon.com asked a panel of users, analysts and politicians to name the most influential person in the European... [11 Jul 2000]
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