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Boardroom Despatches: Making your spike spikier
Comment A potted history many of you will be aware of sees Nokia move from a vertically integrated paper company - owning forests, mills and paper sales - to being a rubber manufacturer. What is it that your organisation can do better than anyone else? [13 Jul 2005]
Devil's Advocate: The e-auction game
Comment For pure product supply, the logic of the situation inevitably pushes towards minimising the intermediaries between manufacturer and large buyer. This model can suggest the manufacturer is doing the buyer a favour by custom building. [26 Apr 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Formula for project failure
Comment What could be simpler than defining what you want and getting a manufacturer to deliver it? Why do so many software development projects crash and burn - or at least come in late and over budget? Peter Cochrane offers his explanation. [17 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: What we can learn from Bluetooth
Comment The result of all this is a degree of incompatibility - so much so that some Bluetooth headsets will not even work with some mobiles from the same manufacturer. Phone shops tend to advise customers to buy a headset from the manufacturer of the... [15 Mar 2005]
Leader: Corporate ethics - don't pass the buck to IT
Leader Just this week airline manufacturer Boeing fired its CEO after what appears to be the leak of one of his emails to the board. IT heads said in this week's CIO Jury they are coming under increasing pressure from HR and other parts of the business to... [10 Mar 2005]
Minority Report: Jef Raskin and the Mac revolution
Comment He altered the name to avoid potential copyright wranglings with a hi-fi manufacturer of the same name - which ended up happening anyway. Jef Raskin, who died this week, was among those who gave birth to the Apple Macintosh. [03 Mar 2005]
Leader: Is Apple being hypocritical?
Leader On hearing news that a large computer manufacturer is suing a gossip site for leaking product specs, most people's initial reaction might be to assume it's one of perhaps HP, Dell or IBM. Free from suspicion would have been Apple who has long... [07 Jan 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Life without a mobile phone
Comment Switching it on produced only a brief display of the manufacturer's logo, which then faded away into nothing. I was warned, only partly tongue in cheek, that if their repair facility could not fix the phone, the manufacturer was the only option and... [16 Nov 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.05.04
Round-Up Ask any manufacturer if their tag can survive 10 seconds in a microwave oven (concentrated electromagnetic energy) and they will invariably answer 'No'. When one thinks of shopping malls one naturally thinks of zombies and not just because of the... [21 May 2004]
Is Nokia making its biggest gamble yet?
Comment The manufacturer has said when the standard makes it to completion its phones will all be compatible with the PoC standard and remains part of the OMA. Well, it looks like those self-same companies could well be heading down the same road with push... [01 Apr 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: All the world in your shirt pocket
Comment One manufacturer is proclaiming that standard PC Drives of 0.5TB capacity will be on the market by 2006 - just two years from now. On several occasions in print and during presentations I have made the observation that soon we will be able to carry... [26 Feb 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: A Christmas wish list
Comment Even products from the same manufacturer sometimes hesitate to recognise each other, while those from different sources might as well be from another planet. It's not just the very young with a long list of things that'd make their Christmas the... [17 Dec 2003]
Big Brother's best intentions are open to abuse
Comment To repeat, CA's hands are clean - this isn't even the gun manufacturer analogy which some people have been tempted to draw. This week Computer Associates unveiled a technology which may well revolutionise office security - both physical and digital... [16 Jul 2003]
Can the beige box ever be a green box?
Comment In the simplest terms you will rent your machines from the manufacturer. You, the manufacturer, the council, the government, the store you bought it from? When the time comes to scrap your PC, whose responsibility is it to dispose of it safely? [23 Apr 2003]
Think different: Apple to become a media giant?
Comment Also, any purchase of Universal would bring with it part-ownership of the Pressplay service, helping to bridge the divide between hardware manufacturer and content provider. Apple is reported to be in talks with French media giant Vivendi Universal... [14 Apr 2003]
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