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RSS tendencyA Study of Mobile Internet Usage From Utilitarian and Hedonic User Tendency Perspectives
White Paper Based on these two values, the authors conceptualize two types of mobile value tendency: utilitarian tendency and hedonic tendency. The goal of this study is to examine the relationships between mobile users' value tendency and their personal... [01 Aug 2007]
Devil's Advocate: Design software before you build it
Comment So it is gratifying to see that at least some people resist this damaging tendency. For there is always a tendency to take the Superglue approach when it comes to project work. There is an awful tendency in IT to take short cuts. [04 May 2004]
Marketing Operations Builds a Lasting Foundation for Excellence
White Paper There is a tendency to overreact to events, to tackle symptoms rather than underlying fundamental problems and to jump at the opportunity to please the boss. Yet the chaotic nature of emerging companies and the tendency to place the marketing... [26 Jul 2005]
Novell seals Cornish health email deal
News The 12,000-user organisation said a recent flurry of patching activity on Microsoft systems and the tendency for Microsoft applications to be the target of malicious activity is one of the major reasons for the switch, claiming an escape from this... [14 Jun 2004]
Capacitors What They Are, What They Do and How to Change your Filter Caps
White Paper The new designs had a tendency to oscillate due to the new layout of the wiring that evolved after some of the components were changed around, and the transformers were made bigger. Although this stopped the problem, most people say they give these... [24 Feb 2004]
Golf ball 'corrects own flight path'
News It has a reduced tendency to break. The tendency of the ball to move off the normal axis is reduced," he said. Scientists are trying to use nanotechnology to cure diseases, ameliorate the energy crisis and reduce golf scores. [22 Nov 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Biometrics offer false hope
Comment The first has never been very effective because of people's inveterate tendency to blab. Magnetic strip cards - and to a lesser extent smart cards - are vulnerable to the wide availability of readers, and the inevitable tendency for people to try... [03 May 2005]
CIOs bamboozled by asset management
News Coyle agreed that the tendency of enterprise IT to grow "erratically" may well be to blame. A move to greater mobility and the tendency for a growing number of assets to exist in geographically diverse locations and outside the four walls of the... [30 Nov 2005]
UK security 'most shameful in Europe'
News However, Jay Heiser, principal analyst as TruSecure, believes the difference between the UK and Germany is due in a large part to different cultures with the server room - typified by a UK tendency to adopt a 'we know best' attitude. [30 Oct 2003]
Brunel University's Business Class: A programme management primer
Comment From our experience, excessive bureaucracy and control has a tendency to create inflexibility, bureaucratic overheads and in extreme circumstances relegate programme management to little more than a reporting mechanism. [04 Jun 2004]
Brunel University's Business Class: How to avoid IT project failure
Comment The bottom line is that larger projects have a tendency to fail more frequently than small ones - there's more to go wrong. There is a tendency for management to believe it is necessary to spend allocated IT budgets in order to be seen to require... [13 Feb 2003]
Citizens' Trust in Digital Government: Toward Citizen Relation Management
White Paper In the information age, it seems that the application of information technology is an indispensable tendency for the evolution of organizations in 21st century, regardless of public or private organizations. [23 Aug 2005]
Wireless LANs in Higher Education
White Paper University campuses have been pioneers in deploying wireless LAN technology, driven by the large mobile population and a natural tendency towards innovation. While more and more higher education institutions are making the case for pervasive Wi-Fi... [19 Jan 2006]
Implementing a Pattern Library in the Real World: A Yahoo! Case Study
White Paper Yahoo's multiple business units, each containing decentralized user experience teams, have a natural tendency to design different solutions to similar problems. Left unchecked, these differences would weaken the Yahoo! [20 Dec 2005]
Thoreau on Science and System
White Paper At the same time, Thoreau often lamented science’s tendency to kill poetry. Thoreau as one of the founders of the modern science of ecology. Scientific writings coupled with his own careful observations often revealed life to him, but in other ways... [24 Feb 2004]
