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Comment Independent specialists are worth considering, although some manufacturers such as HP and Xerox also offer multivendor support and a single point of contact and accountability for negotiation, procurement and management of multiple service contracts.
[22 Apr 2008]
Comment The DOS operating system was bought in by Microsoft, Windows was based on ideas from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center already implemented by Apple, word processing was well established before Word, spreadsheets were popular before Excel and so on.
[20 Feb 2008]
AS Profile Add to this a director seat on the Apple board and it's been a good year for Schmidt, whose experience at Novell, Sun and Xerox Parc are obviously serving him well as he demonstrates both the influence and persistence necessary to be named an...
[25 Sep 2006]
Comment Just ask Hoover, Jacuzzi or Xerox. Dell is having to recall batteries - just over four million of them - that power some of its notebook PCs. Under rare conditions, it is possible for these batteries to overheat, which could cause a risk of fire...
[15 Aug 2006]
Comment Andy Jones, a director at Xerox Global Services, explains a crucial change in the way we use paper. Offices will never get rid of paper entirely - but minimising its use is a relatively easy way for organisations to cut costs, says Ron Condon.
[26 Jun 2006]
Comment Especially as a lot of the talk came from within Xerox, best known for its ability to take one piece of paper and turn it into lots of others at the press of a button. Given the limitations of data storage and retrieval, Martin Brampton tries out a...
[04 Oct 2005]
AS Profile His prior time at Novell, Sun - where he led the Java charge - and Xerox Parc attests to that. Eric Schmidt was setting agendas in the tech world long before taking one of the hottest jobs around in 2001.
[23 Sep 2005]
Comment Would you xerox a sheet of paper that you'd printed off from your PC, and blue-tack it on the wall? But what about when they skip that stage and turn into generic terms such as hoover, xerox or - more recently - google?
[21 Sep 2005]
Leader We are referring to things such as the BlackBerry or iPod, Xerox or biro - products so successful they become synonymous with a whole category. At a recent conference organised by a silicon.com sister company, it became apparent just how loved the...
[27 Jul 2005]
Leader With a membership including heavyweights such as Cisco, Dell, EDS, EMC, Fuji Xerox, Microsoft and Sun - some downright hostile to open source and others grudgingly accepting it in some parts of their business - the Agility Alliance is saying what...
[24 Mar 2005]
Comment Inspired in part by research from the Xerox PARC institute, the computer was to be built around human-centred design principles, which hid the complexity of cables and circuit boards from users inside an all-in-one enclosure.
[03 Mar 2005]
Comment Critics rightly dunned it for being a pale imitation of the work generated by Xerox PARC. Microsoft has managed to remain dominant in IT for decades while rarely being first to market. Charles Cooper looks at how Redmond pulls off this feat.
[15 Oct 2004]
Comment User interfaces with windows, icons and mouse were dreamed up long ago at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Centre. All they do now is prevent small organisations from competing with the big guys. There is a risk that patents will strangle the life out of...
[31 Aug 2004]
Comment He has been CIO at the Xerox Corporation, the US Department of Defense and also at NASA, supervising some of the biggest IS budgets in the world. I suppose the lesson is that if you work for Xerox, NASA or any of the mega-buck corporations my...
[07 Apr 2004]
Comment An extraordinarily powerful set of ideas was formulated at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) in the late 1960s. Last week Martin Brampton's column elicited all manner of responses. Here he continues to question how the old affects the new...
[02 Mar 2004]
Comment The reality was that Jobs allowed Xerox to invest in Apple (prior to it going public and at a time when it was considered a hot investment) in return for briefings on PARC's research. The origins of these interface and interaction innovations can...
[23 Jan 2004]
Round-Up Ask the same two people which company was responsible for pioneering the graphic user interface and kick-starting the personal computing revolution and they'll be at each other's throats quicker than you can say "Xerox PARC".
[31 Oct 2003]
Comment It needs to carry on the fight against Xerox at a time when it is under severe pressure. Ever since 1997 the case has been bouncing around the legal system until recently when the US District Court ruled that Xerox's patent was "valid and...
[07 Jan 2002]
Comment Xerox copies Europe on knowledge management Remember Xerox, the photocopier company? Well, it seems that Xerox is now trying to re-brand as a major player in the knowledge management market and has chosen a very interesting way of making its...
[05 Nov 2001]
Comment Xerox copies Europe on knowledge management Remember Xerox, the photocopier company? Well, it seems that Xerox is now trying to re-brand as a major player in the knowledge management market and has chosen a very interesting way of making its...
[04 Nov 2001]
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