plant in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: DVD format wars
Comment It was also first to market and only required a minimal investment for the modification of existing production plant. There are many theories about how one technology or brand wins the global market over another. [17 Mar 2008]
Bigger is not always better
Comment The plant was created to build the Model A, a widely successful product for its day. This plant had more than 100,000 employees working in 16 million square feet throughout its 93 buildings. The facility had its own electrical plant, ore processing... [02 Oct 2007]
Opinion: Global services' level playing-field
Comment The answer is that a product would need to be manufactured on an extremely small scale for it to not be worth considering an offshore manufacturing plant. The global services landscape is maturing fast, as a new book by regular silicon.com... [02 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.09.06
Round-Up Now it has transpired that Hurd was aware of a secondary plot - again targeting Kawamoto - to plant false information in emails sent to CNET News.com, purporting to be tip-offs, in an attempt to flush out the leak. [22 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: China's a zero-sum game
Comment The buildings, production plant layouts, manufacturing techniques and processes, management structures and methods - everything was standard. Written in the coffee shop of my Beijing hotel and despatched via a free wi-fi service that sprang up from... [18 Jul 2006]
Dan's China diary - day 7
Comment Nokia's factory is a massive plant but you can see the Finns have left their mark on this place. Turns out she works at Nokia (one of 4,000 people at the plant) so she hops in the cab, greets me in English and after a long drive we arrive. [16 Jun 2006]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment The spyware or Trojans they plant on unsuspecting users' machines do not draw attention to themselves but once installed work as slaves to their remote masters. Gone are the days of simple worms and viruses. [12 Apr 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: RFID and flight security
Comment Did he plant something in the overhead or in the toilet, is he a potential bomber or is he just stupid? But what a ruse, how easy a mechanism if he did indeed want to plant a bomb or some other weapon. [01 Dec 2005]
Radioactive: The next billion mobile users
Comment By the end of this year, its plant in Shanghai will be producing sub-$5 system components that will make $20 handsets plausible. Forget the latest feature-rich smart phones - the real action is happening at the other end of the mobile phone market... [03 Aug 2005]
Devil's Advocate: To trust or not to trust machines?
Comment The curious thing is that the plant's instrumentation showed at least 100 warnings over six months, indicating that it had sprung a major leak. The instruments were not believed because it was thought that such a new plant could not fail so soon. [26 Jul 2005]
Leader: Online crime - new tools, old tricks
Leader They have tried extortion with denial of service attacks on websites, blackmail by threatening to plant child pornography on people's computers and are now holding personal computer files to ransom. Who owns the internet? [26 May 2005]
BT's new trick: 21CN
Comment This alone will massively reduce the amount of physical plant needed in the network. Maybe BT will not be so intransigent in future about open, equal access to its plant. With a new network planned and a mass migration to VoIP it seems BT is... [07 Feb 2005]
Virus writers shouldn't get off so easy
Comment Police failed to identify the author of the Slammer worm, which threw some bank ATMs offline and knocked out a PC network at a nuclear power plant in Ohio. An example: In 1999, the plant manager at LCP Chemicals of Brunswick, Ga.was sentenced to... [18 Aug 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The ups and downs of power
Comment The best efficiency can be achieved with the plant running at 90 per cent or so of its rated capacity but large nuclear plants are not suited to respond to sudden power demand changes. All of the network providers had taken advantage of years of... [03 Sep 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: RFID, crazy California law and smut in Iran
Comment With this capability, tags can be fitted to products and the movement of that product can then be traced from the manufacturing plant, through transportation and storage, right down to when the product is placed on a shelf in a shop. [07 Jul 2003]
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