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The Weekly Round-Up: 08.08.08
Round-Up The Round-Up has never been a big fan of DIY. But, perhaps to lure similar gadget-loving DIY-phobes, the Scandinavian purveyor of flat-packed boxes of delight, Ikea, has launched its own budget phone deal. [08 Aug 2008]
DIY wi-fi, Vista in disguise, 3G iPhone and more...
News One of the biggest stories in July was the launch of the 3G iPhone and silicon.com cast its eye over the eagerly anticipated device to see if it's any cop for businesses. And, showing that despite all the launch hype the iPhone is still not perfect... [31 Jul 2008]
DIY or Outsourced: SecureVPN Strategies for the Enterprise
White Paper eBusiness opportunities are driving enterprise demand for flexible and secure wide-area communications. Deeply entwined with Internet connectivity and IP networking advances, the need for companies to exchange information with customers, suppliers... [03 Jul 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study The project was prompted by the acquisition of DIY retailer, Wickes. Travis Perkins has carried out a complete overhaul of its IT over the past year and as a result has a much more robust infrastructure with capacity to expand. [20 Jun 2008]
Rod Angwin
CIO Profile More recently he worked for Meyer International, now part of St Gobain, as group IT director before moving to DIY retail chain B&Q in the same role. As group CIO Rod Angwin is responsible for IT across Wolseley Group. [11 Jun 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo In the shop customers could access, for example, a list of items relating to a certain DIY project and then print out a shopping list. Fujitsu retail technology serves around 80 retailers and 16,000 stores across Europe, the Middle East and Africa... [04 Jun 2008]
Next-Generation Mobility Tool for Retail: CA50 VoIP-Enabled Bar Code Scanner for Simple Voice and Data Tasks
White Paper With an ever-rising number of players - from online to super-centers, Do-It-yourself (DIy) stores, catalogs, discount chains and specialty stores - competition in retail is intense. Brick and mortar retailers struggle to find ways to create a... [31 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Warped perceptions
Comment DIY, maternity problems, HIV/Aids, infected water supplies per year. Written at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands and dispatched via an airline lounge wi-fi service. Some years ago I was struck by the amount of time people spent at my local... [28 May 2008]
Legal Eye: What's the score for the music biz?
Comment Social networks and user-generated content sites are stimulating a DIY ethos where artists can take control and experiment. From free downloads to albums you can pay as much as you like for, the internet has put traditional record companies in a spin. [22 May 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jammers galore
Comment For commercially available devices, check out the NaviGadget, these GPS jammers, or trace this trail leading to the DIY solution. Written on the Ipswich to London train and dispatched from a coffee shop in London over a commercial wi-fi service [12 Dec 2007]
Photos: IBM lifts the lid on web 2.0 tech
Photo The page shows a list of items for a DIY project as well as buddy lists of in-store advisors and people doing similar projects, who can share their experiences. The DIY Shopper system also works through customer mobiles and tablet PCs that can be... [07 Aug 2007]
'DIY' offshoring on the increase
News The increase in the number of organisations setting up their own 'DIY' offshore operations in countries such as India is responsible for the slowdown in the global outsourcing market. Duncan Aitchison, MD at TPI, said in the quarterly update that... [12 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: DIY enterprise mobility
Comment Said device has to support the required apps the bank needs its staff to run and, I'm guessing, has to be 'supportable', in a DIY sense. I was at the Mobility Summit earlier this week (good event, terrible tag line: 'Delivering Business Value in... [03 Jul 2007]
Retail CIOs aiming to ditch legacy of IT complexity
Comment There has been a raft of mergers and takeovers in the last few years, especially in the convenience store and DIY markets and Professor Joshua Bamfield at the Centre for Retail Research believes that the integration of back-office systems is where... [02 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: Tech improves... but we don't?
Comment It had regular economy check-in (a nightmare of a snaking queue), online check-in (for those who checked in over the web and were arriving for 'bag drop') and DIY check-in, whereby passengers use a kiosk to get checked in, print up a boarding pass... [28 Jun 2007]
