opportunities 1980s

My 15 minutes with Bill Gates

Comment Once upon a time, when Bill Gates still flew with the public and I was a budding journalist in need of a haircut, I had a number of opportunities to interview and otherwise interact with him. In the early days of PC computing Joshua Greenbaum... [11 Jul 2008]

Will consumers always want free banking?

Comment The Naked CIO: Unequal opportunities This ruling will mean banks have to find more subtle ways to profit from their customers, argues Carol Wheatcroft. Last month's High Court ruling on overdraft charges sparked widespread media speculation about... [12 May 2008]

Peter Hambling

CIO Profile During his time at HSBC Hambling designed and supervised the build of HSBC's second-generation global ecommerce platforms, boosted sales on fee-based accounts by more than 250 per cent through various multi-channel interactive sales tools and... [06 Jun 2007]

Don't let IT damage your M&A success

Comment As a purchaser, seller or investor in the M&A world, assessing risks and opportunities around technology and data is a real challenge. Understanding the constraints and opportunities they present in a merger situation will be key to assessing the... [23 Jun 2006]

Are cash machines heading for extinction?

News For example, some ATMs are starting to run on Windows XP, and banks and other companies are seeing opportunities in personalised advertising, ticketing and other integrating applications. Graham Mott, head of development for Link, the ATM company... [25 Apr 2006]

HP ProLiant-Based Citrix Environment Solves Infrastructure Management Challenges

White Paper After evaluating options, IPEX chose a centralized Citrix MetaFrame XP solution on an HP ProLiant DL360 platform, which provides ongoing administrative advantages and opportunities for considerable cost savings, plus a significant boost in overall... [26 Jul 2005]

Oxford gets £60m to solve world's problems

News Martin, who founded an IT consultancy called Headstrong in the 1980s, said: "New technology also offers revolutionary new opportunities. One of the most important activities for a leading university today should be the multi-disciplinary academic... [03 Jun 2005]

Multiple Tenant Unit (MTU) Market Opportunity

White Paper The demand for faster and cheaper access to the Internet has created widespread research and development opportunities within the ever-competitive technology marketplace. Digital subscriber line (DSL) was developed in the late 1980s in support of... [24 Feb 2004]

The Bloor Perspective: Parmalat makes a ham-fist of it, Offshoring and Customs and Excise

Comment This is more costly, probably less efficient and less attractive for pooling skills, resources and opportunities. Management of outsourced activities is difficult because they are not under one roof and under single management control. [19 Jan 2004]

Through the fog… IT security investment

Comment It is in the interests of the IT security industry to awaken you to these opportunities and threats. This has created huge opportunities for increased productivity and efficiency. Quite a bit in the world of security, says Quocirca’s Bob Tarzey. [19 Nov 2003]

Gates courts wireless developers

News It's truly an exciting time for mobile application developers and the industry - there are incredible opportunities. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on Wednesday unveiled plans to help developers more easily create applications for mobile devices... [20 Mar 2003]

Through the fog... Corporate content management

Comment The portal vendors (Epicentric (now Vignette), Plumtree) saw their opportunities - and promptly squandered them. But could it be vendors have simply been missing opportunities for years? Content management is about more than workflow or managing... [06 Mar 2003]

Tony Blair's speech in full... (part one)

News But, we have yet to grasp the full scale of the opportunities that the information revolution presents. You are very welcome to the UK and I hope that you find your trip worthwhile - we are certainly grateful for your contributions to this debate. [19 Nov 2001]

The Electronic B@zaar: Part 3 - The Flight of the Roast Chicken

Comment * The Flight of the Roast Chicken * When I first visited California in 1991, I was shown around by a friend who had lived in Palo Alto for five years. We spent a few days at a database show in the valley, meeting software vendors she knew and... [29 Jun 2000]

Strategic Vision: Giga Information Group on... Evaluating IT Investment

Comment Now, putting a company in a position to be able to take advantage of the opportunities revealed by new information itself has a value which NPV models simply do not capture. Business managers have - finally - woken up to the idea that IT can be a... [04 Aug 1999]

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