Recently added articles from Information Age (London, UK):
Man and machine.(how to improve user interaction using information technology)
Feb 10, 2006 ... Now that it is a multibillion-dollar company, launching new services every week, it is easy to forget why Google became so popular in the first place. When it first appeared in 1998, every other Internet company was trying to transform itself into a media giant, cluttering their pages ...
Smarter phone.
Feb 10, 2006 ... Vince Rogley, a manager at a chemical plant equipment maker, has just been upgraded. And he likes his new toy. Problems with the delivery of three dozen new mobile phones sent by Orange to Rogley and his colleagues has resulted in the mobile network service provider's customer service ...
Wiki-wild world.
Feb 10, 2006 ... Collaborative working can be an arduous process. The scenario is all too familiar: emails get lost or accidentally deleted; versions of spreadsheets or word processing documents are fuddled; a member of the project team goes on leave and no one can access their files. Desperate ...
Optimising performance.(role of technologies in organisation)
Feb 10, 2006 ... "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." The Charles Darwin mantra is a favourite of Noel Gorvett, group business systems manager at publisher, the Pearson Group, and for him it underscores how technologies that ...
Seize the moment.
Feb 10, 2006 ... If Chris Slater knew that his company Experian was preparing a $485 million bid for the US-based price comparison website PriceGrabber.com when he spoke at the Information Age Business Intelligence conference in November, he did not give any indication of this. But the director ...
Month in review: December 2005.
Feb 10, 2006 ... In December 2005, European legislators finally agreed rules governing the length of time European telecom and Internet services will have to store customer data. The Data Retention directive was approved by a 65% majority of MEPs. Under the directive, telecoms and Internet ...
Shipping personal data.(Brief Article)
Feb 10, 2006 ... The problem of transferring personal data is not a new one for many organisations. Data Protection laws put all manner of obstacles in the way for organisations, quite legitimately protecting individuals' interests. All manner of work-rounds have been tried, such as insisting that ...
Mossy landing for Frank.
Feb 10, 2006 ... Before he sold his company to the big blue supergiant in 2004, Aubrey Chernick, the founder and former CEO of Candle Software, is reported to have repeatedly told friends he would sell his company to anyone except IBM. Frank Moss, the US software entrepreneur, seems to have no ...
Taking control.(advancement in mobile technology)(Editorial)
Feb 10, 2006; ... Predictions that mobile email is set to spread from the executive classes to 'the corporate masses' may not please those who have had to endure others' BlackBerry addictions at social gatherings. But mobile phone manufacturers' fresh enthusiasm for the enterprise market will be welcomed by ...
Happy Talk.
Dec 10, 2005 ... Call centres have changed the way people feel about companies. Increasingly the most common point of interaction between many businesses and their customers, call centres arguably exert a greater influence over the brand of an organisation than any other form of interaction. ...
Going private.
Dec 10, 2005 ... What do the US technology companies Sungard, Serena, DoubleClick, Ingres, SSA and Geac have in common? The answer: All of them were floated on the US stockmarkets, but were bought and taken private by specialist private equity companies. The trend has gathered pace ...
"Open document formats for Office will make it easier to manage data in the long term.".
Dec 10, 2005 ... If there is one certainty in business, it is that all companies will behave with calculated self-interest. No company ever deliberately makes a move that will harm its overall profitability. With this in mind, some observers have been more than a little puzzled by Microsoft's ...
High definition vision.
Dec 10, 2005 ... Many CIOs will be familiar with the organisational status that is attached to having the biggest monitor in the office. The arrival of gleaming new 21-inch flat screen monitor on a desktop can result in desperate bunfights as employees try to secure equivalent honours. But at ...
Domain Complaints.
Dec 10, 2005 ... Another month, another set of headaches for executives at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). Having emerged from potentially damaging neg- otiatios at the UN World Summit for the Information Society with its mandate for operating the Internet domain name ...
Path of Eclipse.
Dec 10, 2005 ... It has commandeered more than half of its addressable market barely five years after its launch. It is one of the largest open source projects in existence, with the input of thousands of developers and a strategic supporters list that reads like a Who's Who of software. Reputedly, it can ...
CEO of the desktop.
Dec 10, 2005 ... Ten years ago, the challenge to desktop applications was to bring information locked away in businesses' data stores to the workforce, Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's business division, told IT managers assembled at the software giant's IT forum in Barcelona in November 2005. ...
OLAP of the gods.(oline aalytical pocessing )
Dec 10, 2005 ... Companies are slowly getting better at business intelligence (BI) concludes the fifth annual OLAP Survey, conducted by BI analyst Nigel Pendse. The report scrutinises every detail of projects involving online analytical processing tools, which are used for rapid interrogation of large ...
Microsoft comes of age.
Dec 10, 2005 ... Microsoft has high hopes for the latest iteration of its database software SQL Server 2005. It finally believes it has the features that will allow it to tackle the dominant enterprise database vendors IBM and Oracle. Certainly Robin Paine, CTO at the London Stock Exchange, was ...
Local champion.(Company Profile)
Dec 10, 2005 ... Sage is the contrarian of business applications. While the rest of the software sector - Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Lawson and others in enterprise resource planning (ERP) - strive to deliver global products that can be deployed in most major countries, Sage offers different accounting, ...
Lost in translation?
Dec 10, 2005 ... One of the early visions for the Internet was that it would connect organisations and people across the globe, irrespective of their location. But it did not take long for businesses to understand that globalisation meant more than just connecting. If the customer cannot understand the ...