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RSC ups attendance with analytics

News The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has used analytics software from KXEN and analysis expertise from Accenture to market productions to its audiences more effectively.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to...

Tags: shakespeare, accenture, analytics, expertise

[18 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 4.11.05

Round-Up Like most people at one time or another, the Round-Up finds itself this week wondering how much better Shakespeare would have been if only he'd been fully conversant with the whole text messaging phenomenon, rather than resting on his traditional...

[04 Nov 2005]

Even monkeys wouldn't use a Mac

News US academics have conducted research into the well-known phenomenon of 'Shakespeare's Monkeys' - which claims an infinite number of monkeys using an infinite number of typewriters would eventually write the complete works of the Bard - and have...

[01 Apr 2005]

Libraries' treasures get the Google treatment

News The task is not only in making it easy for consumers to find an obscure travel site on Zimbabwe or track a UPS package, but now it's also in helping a visitor call up and read a work of Shakespeare. Google will expand its ability for searching...

[15 Dec 2004]

Much ado about Shakespeare texts online

News Tudor playwright and goatee-chinned Warwickshire wordsmith Will Shakespeare has been paid a posthumous compliment of sorts this week, with the British Library announcing that it has made available 21 of his best-loved works on the internet.

Tags: shakespeare

[10 Sep 2004]

Devil's Advocate: Patents are killing software innovation

Devil's Advocate: Patents are killing software innovation

Comment If the works of Shakespeare or the Bible were to be patented, it would become extraordinarily difficult to write anything. Individuals should be rewarded for their accomplishments, but patents aren't the way to do it in the software industry, says...

Tags: software patents

[31 Aug 2004]

Connectivity, Collaboration, and Customization: New Benchmarks for the Future

whitepaper B2B and B2C are not shorthand for Shakespeare but the new language of the Internet. These findings suggest new competitive leadership benchmarks for the next decade and different ways of driving new business processes for the first decade of the...

Tags: business strategies, decade, century, language

[05 Apr 2004]

<strong>Shakespeare</strong>, Nelson and Cromwell's last wishes get online

Shakespeare, Nelson and Cromwell's last wishes get online

News The Public Record Office has launched a new service to give Britons an insight into their famous ancestors - such as William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Admiral Nelson - by making their wills available online.

[17 Mar 2004]

Outsourcing for Best Performance: One Company's Search for Stable, Yet Flexible IT Services

whitepaper Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) knows the value of Shakespeare's admonition to measure twice, cut once. When a previous relationship with an IT outsourcing provider ended abruptly, the company wasn't ready to give up on the concept.

Tags: cost control - risk mgmt.

[24 Feb 2004]

Countering Threats in Education: Content Security in the K-12 World

whitepaper Pornographic material, online gambling, and even bomb making tips, which are clearly inappropriate in the school environment, are as easily available as the works of William Shakespeare or the Declaration of Independence.

Tags: network security

[24 Feb 2004]

Participatory Simulations: Using Computational Objects to Learn about Dynamic Systems

whitepaper These participatory simulations provide an individual, first-person" perspective on the system, just as acting in Hamlet provides such a perspective on Shakespeare. New technology developed at the MIT Media Laboratory enables students to become...

Tags: simulations, participants, mit media laboratory, layer

[14 Aug 2003]

IT Myths: The tallest tech tales, all in one place

Comment While some readers felt it was an open and shut case that Grace Hopper coined the phrase (similar usage, it turns out, goes all the way back to a pre-computer Will Shakespeare), most of us are in general agreement that 'computer bugs' literally...

[01 Aug 2003]

Devil's Advocate: That’s MY code

Comment Shakespeare, Mozart and the King James Bible are all works that came into being without benefit of copyright. For decades artists have argued over ownership of songs and other media. For centuries ownership of any idea or creation has been...

Tags: code, kant, unix, sco

[30 Jun 2003]

University challenges copyright laws

University challenges copyright laws

News A work enters the public domain when the creator voluntarily relinquishes copyright protection, or, as in Shakespeare's writings, when the copyright term expires. By Declan McCullagh A US law school has received an anonymous $1m gift to fund...

[05 Sep 2002]

Tech trio in line for 'Greatest Briton' award

Tech trio in line for 'Greatest Briton' award

News Other individuals included in the top 100 include Shakespeare, Winston Churchill, Horatio Nelson and Queen Elizabeth I. The father of computing, the founder of computer science and the inventor of the World Wide Web all rank among the hundred...

[22 Aug 2002]

Devil's Advocate: Rights to intellectual property? How absurd

Comment Shakespeare, Bach and Mozart were eminently creative without benefit of IPR. Martin Brampton, director at consultancy Black Sheep Research, this week questions the concept. Intellectual property rights (IPR) are talked of a good deal.

[08 Jan 2002]

Text messaging gets poetic: <strong>Shakespeare</strong> turns in grave

Text messaging gets poetic: Shakespeare turns in grave

News However, before putting pen to paper it is worth noting that poems can only be 160 characters long and must be submitted by SMS text message via your mobile phone. Here's a sample of the competition from the Guardian site:

[29 Mar 2001]

Model Management: Japan - "The whirligig of time"

Comment But as Shakespeare's clown Feste observes in the comedy Twelfth Night, "The whirligig of time brings in his revenges. In the aftermath of World War II the US General MacArthur sent business guru W. Edwards Deming into Japan to help in the task of...

[12 Mar 2001]

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