field engineers in comment and analysis
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment Again, businesses have always had field service engineers, sales people and truck drivers who work remotely, but today many of these workers are linked to business processes through mobile devices.... [24 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Some offshoring fallacies
Comment They are architects, journalists, clinicians, engineers - you name it. Richard Sykes and Mark Kobayashi-Hillary's new book, The Level Playing Field, is out soon. Naff name but interesting couple of hours. [06 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's education in transition
Comment According to the latest estimates out of Duke University in the US, China is graduating around 350,000 engineers and technologists every year, which is well over twice the total number of the US and UK combined. [19 Jul 2006]
Radioactive: Mobile email - get it right
Comment BlackBerrys, Nokia E-series handsets, Windows Smartphones and now the Danger Hiptop are the new must-haves (and don't wants) for whole armies of sales forces, field engineers and freelancers in the... [21 Dec 2005]
Through the fog... The digital home
Comment The usual paranoia dominates the engineers and product developers in the industry and so systems developed are, of course, largely different and proprietary. One of the best examples of this is in the... [07 Nov 2003]
Interview: Father of the firewall
Comment Marcus J Ranum is one of the most famous engineers to ever turn his attention to IT security. I think computer security is a very new field, really - and it's one we don't appear to understand very well. [03 Feb 2003]
Segway or the highway? (II)
Comment Inventor Dean Kamen and his team of engineers invented the vehicle's self-balancing technology in the course of creating a wheelchair that would help disabled people go up stairs, thus, they say, they understand the... [16 Nov 2002]
Where have all the data carriers gone?
Comment Brian Nesbitt, ex-head of KPNQwest's UK field engineers had a lot to say in response to Hewett's analysis. Our data carriers are mainly teetering on the edge of an abyss and all we can do is sit and watch. [08 Jul 2002]
Surviving the Recession, a Quocirca series
Comment This does not just cover the sales force and field engineers but many managers and home workers. In the latest in this 12-part series, Quocirca analyst Clive Longbottom identifies the opportunities and... [03 Jan 2002]
A journey to DSL hell
Comment Next time you spend half an hour listening to BT hold muzak, take comfort from the fact that BT's own field engineers seem to spend three hours a day with the same irritating tunes in their ears. It... [08 Nov 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Mac OS X, virtual justice and MS C# versus Java
Comment Engineers and management at Microsoft's Mac software development division have been reported to like it. A more level playing field could be developing. In 1999, Apple decided to re-engineer its... [29 Jan 2001]
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