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White Paper The problem is videoconferencing becomes a powerful solution only if it can be used to call anywhere on the globe - and there are two major, incompatible standards to which video equipment are manufactured: NTSC (National Television... [23 Jun 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Netbooks
Cheat Sheet If you're looking to do a lot of office tasks on your portable pal, then it's worth looking at the comfort levels. Nope. Not even close. They're the latest piece of kit every self-respecting techie should be packing. [08 May 2009]
Lightpath-Level Protection Versus Connection-Level Protection for Carrier-Grade Ethernet in a Mixed-Line-Rate Telecom Network
White Paper Reliability is achieved using shared-path protection at two levels: Protection-at-Connection (PAC) level, or Protection-at-Lightpath (PAL) level. Ethernet is a success story in Local Area Networks (LAN). [04 Jul 2008]
Would you credit it? The debit card turns 20
News The debit card is 20 years old this weekend. With the launch of the Barclays Connect debit card on 3 June 1987, the high street banking sector changed its relationship with customers by giving them instant access to their money - another... [01 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.05.05
Round-Up But going back to the beginning of his career Ballmer explained that had his old pal Bill Gates not given him a job within Microsoft he may well have ended up selling car insurance, following advances from Progressive... [20 May 2005]
Microsoft hires Windows evangelist
News Ashim Pal became Microsoft's senior director of EMEA platform strategy on Monday, having previously worked as vice-president of technology research services at the Meta Group. In his first interview since starting his... [16 Sep 2004]
Microsoft still a collaboration lightweight
Comment Throughout its investment in the collaboration market, it does not have a collaborative strategy as such and its [position] has accreted almost by accident," says Meta Group analyst Ashim Pal. As a result of apparently... [21 Jun 2004]
Collaboration best practices: Think big to act small
Comment This blanket deployment created a chaotic environment because everybody became an application developer," said Ashim Pal, collaboration expert with analyst firm Meta Group. The best approach is to standardise around a... [08 Jun 2004]
Boardroom Despatches: Process - no substitute for creativity
Comment Forget it pal. Is throwing away the manual the answer? In the field of technology we have become process junkies. In fact I believe critical qualities - most notably creativity and innovation - have been supplanted by... [13 Jan 2004]
Opera refuses to perform on Microsoft smartphone
News Pal Hvistendahl, communications director for Opera, said: "We think the browser will be the winner application for smartphones. There has never been much of a relationship between the small Norwegian browser company... [24 Feb 2003]
Time for CRM to live up to its promise
News According to Ashim Pal, International VP for CRM at Meta Group, most user organisations don't have the analytical capability to judge the effects of CRM projects. Customer relationship management (CRM) initiatives have... [29 Nov 2002]
PlayStation2 hits 40 million mark
News In Europe and the rest of the PAL region Sony has shifted 12.06 million consoles. By Justin Calvert Sony has announced the latest PlayStation2 sales figures, which indicate that the console is continuing to increase its... [19 Sep 2002]
California crims granted print-out privileges
News Some also have signed up for prison pen pal sites, Web clearinghouses that allow people to strike up a correspondence with an inmate by sending an e-mail that is later printed out and forwarded to the prisoner. [13 Sep 2002]
Paypal given the all clear
News Paypal.com has been given the go ahead to operate by New York state regulators who had accused the e-payment company of acting illegally. The dispute centred on whether Paypal, an internet micro payment company, constituted a bank or not. [14 Jun 2002]
Web services: The difference between Microsoft and Sun
Comment Ashim Pal, Meta Group VP web and collaboration, also distinguishes between the two offerings, claiming the two companies have approached web services with different visions of their end use. There are still issues over... [22 May 2002]
