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Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys

News Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Indian National Association of Software and Service Companies...

Tags: infosys, banking, nandan nilekani, founder

[03 Mar 2008]

Get a New Perspective on Data With PivotDiagrams

whitepaper When users create a PivotDiagram, Visio imports the data and adds three things to the diagram: a legend with information about the data source, a title box, and a primary shape that aggregates all the data in the data source.

Tags: spreadsheets, source, data source, box

[05 Oct 2007]

Editor's Blog: William Gibson fan talk

Comment Making the journalist's mistake of being a fan (I think I'm allowed to on this occasion), I'm excited because today we've published what I can say with complete bias is a cracking interview with sci-fi legend William Gibson.

Tags: mobile phones, virtual worlds, second life, william gibson

[06 Aug 2007]

Martin Taylor

CIO Profile What they say about him: "A legend among CIOs who specialises in turning around chaos. He can handle the most difficult or even dysfunctional situation. A key strength must surely be the ability to see the wood for the trees, make sensible...

[06 Jun 2007]

Presentation Quality Forecast Visualization With SAS/GRAPH

whitepaper Use of SYMBOL, AXIS and LEGEND statements is discussed along with details for using fonts, colors and lines to make the graphics look magazine worthy. A statistical forecast is useless without sharp, attractive and informative graphics to present it.

Tags: graphics applications, graphics, date, sas

[02 Jun 2007]

LEGEND Options Using Multiple Plot Statements in PROC GPLOT

whitepaper Producing a correct legend requires some additional coding. Options for creating the legend are provided in this paper. Using the LEGEND statement requires an extraneous plot be hidden, thus providing information for the legend.

Tags: graphics applications, symbol, graph, plot

[27 Apr 2007]

Avaya IP Telephony Solutions Help Red Sox Serve Customers at Home and Maintain Productivity on the Road

whitepaper One of the oldest and most storied franchises in Major League Baseball, the Boston Red Sox have given rise to some of baseball's most colorful legend. The company wanted a costly and inflexible communications infrastructure inhibited communications...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, avaya, baseball, avaya ip

[12 Apr 2007]

Smart Client Legend Billy Hollis

whitepaper Billy Hollis is truly a legend of smart client development. Will Windows Presentation Foundation be a great new platform for smart clients? Will Windows Workflow make your life better? Listen to this webcast as Billy gazes into his crystal ball to...

Tags: web services, workflow, life, foundation

[31 Mar 2007]

India diary, day 14: Bar-hopping in Bangalore

Comment There's even a few celebrities - including cricketing legend Kapil Dev - thrown in. Saturday 17 February - Bangalore My last day in Bangalore and in India. Time to grab some souvenirs from the shops on Brigade Road and Mahatma Gandhi Road in the...

Tags: india

[17 Mar 2007]

Editor's Blog: An Ashes lesson in great teams

Comment Still with the retiring from test cricket of three great players (an all-time legend in Shane Warne, a mere great in Glenn McGrath and a player that would make a 'top 20 of his era' in Justin Langer) I got to thinking - through a slightly foggy...

Tags: it teams, management

[05 Jan 2007]

Is the Legend in Your SAS/GRAPH Output Telling the Right Story?

whitepaper GPLOT automatically uses the values of this variable in the LEGEND, but very often the designers of the plots will want particular symbols, line types, and/or colors to be specified for the display of specific values of this variable.

Tags: data visualization, values, variable, subset

[26 Dec 2006]

A Dynamic Imagemap Generator

whitepaper Since the intention is that the output generated be moved elsewhere, the map is purposefully devoid of legend, title, footnotes, etc. The SAS Output Delivery System enables the creation of an image map using SAS/GRAPH.

Tags: data visualization, sas, output, creating

[13 Dec 2006]

Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Steve Jobs

News Interestingly, if ever there was evidence of Agenda Setting, it's here: such is the Jobs legend that if he were to announce an Apple-branded egg cup, column inches would follow as surely as night follows day.

Tags: steve jobs, where are they now, agenda setters, apple

[20 Sep 2006]

Leader: Farewell, Bill Gates?

Leader CEO Steve Ballmer may get more than his fair share of stick, software legend Ray Ozzie (moving from CTO to chief software architect as part of the Gates move) may get more than his fair share of plaudits but together with others the company still...

[16 Jun 2006]

Case Study: SurfControl - Richard Petty Driving Experience Blocks Multiple Internet Threats

whitepaper Founded in 1994 by NASCAR legend Richard Petty, the Concord, N.C.based company currently operates 20-plus tracks nationwide, offering enthusiasts a chance to experience everything from a 165-mph ride with a professional driver to the adrenal rush...

Tags: spyware, mail, racing, petty

[19 Apr 2006]

A decade of Webby Awards

News Among those sites lauded for being "weird," in a good way, are the Boneless Pig Farmers Association Of America, Car Stuck Girls and urban legend tracker Snopes.com. Nominees for the 10th annual Webby Awards were announced on Tuesday and the list of...

[12 Apr 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 10.03.06

Round-Up Blair was speaking to TV chat show legend Michael Parkinson on .well, Parkinson. Tony Blair this week became the latest politician to go for the 'tell people you've got an iPod and they'll all think you're cool' approach to public image management.

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[10 Mar 2006]

Thus snaps up two rivals in £70m spree

News The two companies now joining the Thus stable are ISP, fixed-line provider and mobile B2B reseller Your Communications, bought for Thus shares equivalent to £58.8m, and northern business ISP Legend, acquired for a cash offer of £11.5m.

Tags: legend, your communications, consolidation, thus

[01 Feb 2006]

Lenovo pledges "big initiatives" at the Olympics

News Until the IBM merger, Lenovo (formerly Legend) sold all of its products almost exclusively in China. Lenovo is to unveil a slew of products at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, starting next month.

Tags: lenovo, ibm, lenovo, olympics

[05 Jan 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 02.12.05

Round-Up The Round-Up isn't about to discuss the rights and wrongs of false nostalgia, selective amnesia or the cult of celebrity but did notice a couple of interesting things while surfing the web and ploughing through the countless obituaries of the...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[02 Dec 2005]

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