(4 votes, average: 7.5 out of 10)
Loading ...The past on an – online – platter
By Joaquim P. Menezes -
More than 15 years ago, when I was a reporter with the Mumbai (then called Bombay) edition of The Times of India (TOI) – India’s largest English language national newspaper – accessing newspaper issues going back more than two years could prove to be quite a longwinded and laborious task.
It involved visiting the paper’s microfilm library, which fortunately was located in the same building. The Times has done a fabulous job of capturing its entire archives going back 169 years (starting November 1838) on microfilm.
These microfilm reels store every item on every page of the paper: articles, news items, editorials, photographs, cartoons, graphics – even the ads, as they originally appeared.
But quite often accessing the solitary item or two I required from a vast stash of microfilm was quite a chore.
I would need to book an appointment, visit the library and then sift through reel after reel to locate the specific article or report I was interested in.
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(2 votes, average: 9.5 out of 10) Loading ...Stop complaining and start fixing unsatisfactory outsourcing
By Dan McLean
It’s a wonder that any Canadian company would even consider outsourcing, based on the startling IDC Canada research, which shows nearly half of those asked in a recent survey said they are neutral, dissatisfied, or very dissatisfied with their experience.
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(2 votes, average: 8 out of 10) Loading ...AMD’s latest release: a ‘We hate Intel’ page
This is talking the semicondcutor rivalry up a notch. Rather than focus on improving is product line and bolstering its go-to-market strategy, AMD is trying to draw users’ attention to its main rival, Intel.
The company has set up a page called “Break Free” on its Web site which lists in detail information about the European Commission’s antitrust investigation into Intel, including press releases, studies and video comments from CEO Hector Ruiz. Banner ads promoting the page are appearing on the New York Times Web site, among others. Not sure what Intel (or even AMD) customers are supposed to do in response to this attack — cheer? Recoil? One thing’s for sure: it’s not a great sales pitch for the latest Opteron chips.
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(2 votes, average: 9 out of 10) Loading ...Losing the Linksys label
Buzz this week that Cisco will be rolling in its Lynksys brand of home networking equipment under the mothership Cisco name. CEO John Chambers told a group of European reporters last week that the only reason the name was maintained when Cisco bought Linksys in 2003 was because the name was well-known in the U.S. Globally, he added, there was no such advantage.
The move seems to be a natural one, with the Cisco name becoming more recognized by home users more familiar with the Internet and the technology firms that help make it a reality. Chambers did not give an official timeframe for the “takeover” to happen, but don’t be surprised if the Linksys name goes the way of the dodo by the fall. The sooner the better, really, because the moniker doesn’t carry much cache any longer.
