metro in comment and analysis
Ian Cohen
CIO Profile The company publishes some of the UK's best-known papers including Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, the Evening Standard and Metro. As a group executive director as well as CIO, Ian Cohen is a member of the Associated... [11 Jun 2008]
Ian Cohen
CIO Profile A talented business leader, Ian Cohen was also a professional musician in a former life and is now CIO and a group executive director at Associated Newspapers, the publishers of The Daily Mail, The Evening Standard and... [06 Jun 2007]
India diary, day 4: Hyderabad's tech park
Comment Work on a metro service is due to start in the middle of next year and there are road improvements coming too. Indian cities are keen to attract technology and business process outsourcing (BPO) companies because of the... [07 Mar 2007]
Editor's Blog: Wi-fi at conference and more
Comment And finally, on an early tube into work this morning, an article in daily freesheet Metro caught my eye. Aside from that, the gentleman quoted in the Metro piece is Gareth Griffith, eBay's head of trust... [05 Mar 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: All about Itil
Comment These pictorial representations take the Itil processes and create process flow diagrams that use the well-recognised analogue of an underground/metro map to show how the flows work. Itil is one such term, says... [28 Jul 2006]
Q&A: BT CTO Matt Bross
Comment We looked at 23 [criteria] in the metro. 'Innovation' is a word that Matt Bross, CTO of BT, is fond of bandying around when talking about BT's strategy. But is it just an abstract noun he likes to pump out alongside... [22 Sep 2005]
Who is Sony's new CEO?
Comment Pulled off acquisitions including merger of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group and purchase of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last year. The news earlier this week that Sony had chosen a British executive as its new... [08 Mar 2005]
BT's new trick: 21CN
Comment Within five years, all calls on the BT metro and core networks will be transformed into voice over IP (VoIP). Embracing change, welcoming competition - that can't be BT can it? With a new network planned and a mass... [07 Feb 2005]
Before you roll out RFID... read this
Comment High-profile retail supply chain RFID projects currently underway - such as Wal-Mart in the US, Tesco in the UK and Metro in Germany - have brought plenty of attention to the technology. RFID technology could make your... [20 Jan 2005]
Analysis: The uncertain future of RFID
Comment The Metro Future Store is a prime example of dipping a toe in the waters. Supermarket chain Metro has developed one flagship RFID-enabled store in Duisberg, Germany, laden with tracking-tag trinkets such... [03 Jun 2004]
RFID: The tags that would not die
Comment The idea is that when a shopper passes a certain point, any active RFID chip essentially shuts itself down (German supermarket Metro tried similar technology with its RFID rollout and was rather red-faced to find its... [17 May 2004]
Leader: Who will enterprises crown the winners in wireless?
Leader This starts at the level of RFID and other smart tags, moves to personal area network technology including Bluetooth plus upcoming, faster technologies, reaches the wireless LAN (typically Wi-Fi, where Intel's Centrino success is plain... [26 Feb 2004]
Leader: Mobile spam - over-hyped
Leader London tabloid Metro today carried a story opening with the line: "Mobile users are being bombarded by a flood of spam messages which could cost them millions". There has been a lot of talk over the past two days about... [19 Feb 2004]
Crossing the Channel: What IP can do for storage
Comment However, WDM is limited to metro areas and for some companies 200km is simply not far enough. Corporates will use a mix of technologies for their SANs, including both FCIP for daily remote back-up for disaster recovery... [02 Sep 2003]
Why SMS will take some toppling
Comment Another exhibitor at SMS 02 has just launched a location-based service in conjunction with London free-paper Metro. Another week, another innovative and impressive use for SMS text messages - the technology which refuses... [08 Nov 2002]
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