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; MacIver, Kenny ... 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 ...
