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The Bloor Perspective: the ASP brain drain, EDS, and the growing online ad market
Comment The similar scale deal at the Inland Revenue is also said to be going well but that hasn't stopped the Commons Public Accounts Committee demanding assurances the deal can be terminated if required. Which came first, the skills shortage or the ASP? [17 Jul 2000]
The Ovum View: Avoiding the WAP trap
Comment It's what they have been demanding from the operators for a long time, so that they can wirelessly enable both blue- and white-collar business applications. Ovum's Jeremy Green is worried that the wireless industry is going to drive GPRS down the... [29 Aug 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Ganging up on Microsoft, corporate honesty and a painful storage spat
Comment Now the VCs are demanding greater investigations before investing. It blames the software giant's monopolistic practices for its own failure and, presumably, wants some form of recompense. The Lindows case is intriguing because it does appear to be... [24 Feb 2002]
Skills Survey 2002: Learn from the past - train now
Comment Those who are not confident that their skills are as advanced as the market demands should think twice before demanding premium rates, while employers should seriously consider recruiting someone at a lower level to start off with, and spend more... [26 Mar 2002]
Analysis: Approaching RFID with your business head on
Comment Romanow believes that there are two popular scenarios among businesses working to develop RFID capabilities today: those doing just enough to keep demanding companies like Wal-Mart as a customer and those with real long-term vision. [20 Feb 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Damn metrics
Comment Management by very large numbers of metrics always leads to a layered dishonesty where people do their job as best they can, and then report up what the system is demanding. About 20 years ago I was drawn into a public debate and enquiry on the... [28 Aug 2007]
Spam crackdown signs up 15 countries
News These bodies are soon going to become frustrated if all they are doing is talking and that frustration may be the catalyst to start demanding more ammunition, more teeth and more severe penalties from their governments. [12 Oct 2004]
Go real-time with your data
Comment Financial organisations dependent on time-sensitive applications - such as credit card fraud detection - are demanding and willing to pay for very low latency access. Sharing data across an organisation brings the most benefits when the data is as... [15 Mar 2007]
RIM CEO: 'China's RedBerry is no threat'
News Consumers are demanding more functionality. Time was, RIM was synonymous with dodgy thumbs and exec envy. Now it seems the Canadian company is more renowned for its lawyers' bills than its products. Back in March, RIM finally put to bed its long... [18 May 2006]
The telecoms mega-mergers: Do end users really benefit?
Comment Operators need to have complete control over their international networks so that they are in a better position to guarantee the same levels of service globally - a factor that will become more important as businesses become more demanding. [19 Oct 1999]
Door slams on SCO
News SCO sent letters to 3,000 Unix licensees in December demanding they demonstrate compliance with their contracts within 30 days. In a hearing on Wednesday, Judge Rae Lee Chabot of Oakland County Circuit Court in Michigan granted most of... [22 Jul 2004]
Is BitTorrent moving into the mainstream?
News What everybody in the sector agrees on is that peer-to-peer technologies are only going to appear more attractive, as more people start demanding high-quality internet video. Long considered in Hollywood as part of an extensive and despised piracy... [10 May 2006]
TCG: Mobiles need hardware-based security and DRM
News He added: "Mobile phones are becoming full of security-demanding services. As mobile phones become digital do-it-alls, handsets need better protection from hackers and from unauthorised access when they're lost or stolen, says an industry group... [28 Sep 2005]
Ebusiness despatches: René Carayol on e-leadership
Comment They will be demanding on the organisation. This will be distinct from the type of solid management that today is in oversupply. And the IT industry has a real opportunity to provide many of these next-generation, new world leaders - if only the... [07 Nov 2000]
MSN dreams of wireless domination
News I see the handset makers and the carriers pushing MMS, but I don't see the end users demanding it. While Microsoft muscles in on the mobile handset business, its content arm, MSN, is also moving into the wireless services market, with a number of... [20 Feb 2002]
