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St Valentine's Day, e-dating-style
Comment Organised dating may have a certain stigma, but it's got to make more sense than current behavioural trends. A year from now, technology could have made the practice of posting a printed card to someone who hates your guts as much a part of history... [14 Feb 2001]
Model Management: Business schools hatching incubator nest eggs
Comment When they ignore the latest business trends and retreat into their ivory towers they are roundly criticised for being out of touch with the changing business world. Business schools just can't seem to get it right. [09 Jan 2001]
Surviving the recession: a Quocirca series (part 2)
Comment These outcomes can then be graphically represented by using arrows to denote expected market trends for ourselves and our main competitor, as in figure 2. Such a graphic then can be used to demonstrate that the option of not carrying out the... [02 Jan 2001]
Transatlantic Cable: Something in the air
Comment There's a buzz in the air over here, and it's not related to the ongoing arguments on every street corner about the elections. It's a buzz about wireless internet access because, after many years of being hailed as the Next Big Thing, it's... [14 Nov 2000]
Avaya stands alone, OpenVMS boosted, and Oracle takes its own medicine.
Comment First, we can think about trends in the development of technology for the web. Those trends are offset, though, by the strength of the movement to embrace the internet as an integral part of modern business. [09 Oct 2000]
The good, the bad and the irrelevant: the network manager's challenge
Comment Managing supplier and contractor relationships while having an overall understanding of the latest industry trends would be a fair description of that new role. In a world of managed networks, application provision and service level agreements... [28 Jun 2000]
Good money after bad? Venture capitalists and Internet start-ups
Comment They understand trends, they know what is going on. Analysts point to flawed business models and over-inflated marketing spends, but does some of the blame lie with the people who often hold the purse strings - the venture capitalists. [13 Jun 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: PDAs, ASPs and the end of magnetic disks
Comment The next wave of computing trends is throwing some interesting ingredients into the already heady mix of technology. Larry Ellison has a history of being early to recognise - and indeed set - trends. Palm Computing's new Palm VII PDA is claimed to... [11 Oct 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: keynotes, tie-ups and court cases
Comment Alongside the competing trends in Internet access, the wireless telephony market is also in a state of flux. *From bricks to clicks. Grove repeats ecommerce mantra* Talking to the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) in London last week, Dr Andy... [27 Sep 1999]
Directors' Cut: David Taylor on people power
Comment In January I wrote a column predicting the major trends for 1999. As IT moves into the new millennium and we start to look forward we should ask - what lies ahead? With the Year 2000 behind us, who will shape the future? [26 May 1999]
Beyond the firewall
Comment Lior Arussy, Hewlett-Packard's VP of security, claims modern business trends like outsourcing and extranets mean companies have to let strangers access mission-critical data in order to be successful. [14 May 1999]
Do people really want free Net access?
Comment Oftel's recent decision to allow subscription-free ISPs to continue using the Number Translation Services (NTS) - the formula which allows for the carve-up of call revenues - was welcomed by ISPs. But what came as bonus was the move to give ISPs... [17 Mar 1999]
Macs and schools go hand in hand - but is Apple losing its grip?
Comment It's a great opportunity to observe new trends in educational IT infrastructure. The education sector has long been a stronghold for Apple, and remains so, despite the company's recent troubled times. [23 Jul 1998]
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