universal in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Can education be saved?
Comment Unfortunately, whilst attainting 'grade A' status has become more and more universal, so has the inability to read, write and perform the most basic of mathematical manipulations. Education is getting worse and worse in the West, particularly for... [10 Mar 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Why do we still travel?
Comment Exponential technology growth has led to exponential production, rapid price reductions and universal availability. Peter Cochrane explains why this is not the case. It is a very early Sunday morning at London Heathrow Terminal 3 and I am about to... [02 Dec 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Who's to blame for IT failures?
Comment Much the same thing has happened with the browser, where the idea of a universal standard has been transmuted into the actuality of dominance by a single proprietary product. There is little sign of software layering being applied widely and even... [30 Nov 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The state of broadband
Comment How could anyone make such a statement when other nations in Scandinavia, South-East Asia and North America enjoy bit rates between 2Mbps and 100Mbps and are planning universal 10Gbps delivery by 2010? [18 Nov 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Broadband ABCs
Comment BT and others shirk the investment necessary for universal broadband. At the beginning of the month I journeyed up to Aviemore in Scotland, a place known as a ski resort but on that occasion the location for a big conference about broadband... [17 Nov 2004]
Biometrics: Your questions answered
Comment Does that mean biometrics is doomed to the same scrap heap as universal use of PKI, just to the left of betamax, and around the corner from that huge field of unbought Segways? Last week we asked you to submit questions to our panel of experts on... [20 Aug 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Security software - can we get it right?
Comment In theory, the whole public key infrastructure is the foundation for universal authentication. Companies need security products that are more effective than what's currently available. But creating new standards and technologies is quite a... [17 Aug 2004]
Will internet chat be forced to pay the tax man?
Comment Asking us to support the current Universal Service Fund is patently unfair. Perhaps these 'Universal Service' taxes should apply to VoIP companies like Vonage and 8x8, which let their customers make calls through the old telephone network. [27 Jul 2004]
Leader: Are cyber-loafers' bosses to blame?
Leader But let's not let everybody off the hook with universal excuses about bad bosses or failing HR departments and let's not forget that we are all 'here' to do a job - though an element of leniency towards recreational surfing and email often fosters... [12 Jul 2004]
Analysis: Will US legislators squash VoIP?
Comment But the measure also would impose a hefty stack of regulations, including ones related to wiretapping and universal service, on 'connected' VoIP systems that offer the choice of calling people on the existing telephone network. [06 Jul 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.05.04
Round-Up Speaking of Bush, the US President was recently picked up on his call for "universal, affordable access to broadband technology by the year 2007". If he ever sat there and thought independently for himself: "I think 2007 is a realistic target for... [07 May 2004]
Leader: UK broadband - alive and kicking
Leader It will provide 'near-universal' broadband access by the middle of next year because it's the right thing to do, it said. Local loop unbundling. LLU. Say it any way you want but we haven't heard it talked about in a while. [27 Apr 2004]
Butler on: Enterprise portals - still de rigueur
Comment An enterprise portal, which is based upon internet technologies, can be considered as the only truly universal access mechanism - or gateway - to digital information, content and applications. Butler Group senior research analyst Mike Davis takes... [24 Mar 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Muddled thinking on education
Comment Then universities would be thoroughly universal. Martin Brampton goes in search of the happy medium which must exist somewhere amid all the talk of hiring, firing, employment, unemployment, skills shortages and retraining. [24 Feb 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Frog kissing, relationship banking and the decline of TVs and papers
Comment In their opinion, the universal bank is considered to be the elephant. After kissing a few frogs with some heavyweight laptops that didn't quite transform into princely sales, Tadpole is hoping for more success with its latest product family, Talin. [01 Feb 2004]
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