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BlackBerry in sync with Mac OS X
Talkback Also, DO NOT believe their hype about the GoBetween software solving the Nokia sync problems. Mac is just not with it in this department, despite all the marketing hype.bryan_grant@runbox.com Thanks for the article on teh Blackberry.
[September 18, 2004, 22:42]
Is Gartner a victim of its own terminology?
Blog Then there’s Gartner, who expect you to know what a Magic Quadrant and a Hype Cycle is. I pick on Gartner somewhat unfairly as the Magic Quadrant has become particularly well known and the Hype Cycle ‘gauge’ (if I can call it that) pretty much does...
[September 16, 2009, 11:59]
Small companies drive European IT growth
News The lack of flexibility of existing products to match specific company requirements and the general hype surrounding the Internet have therefore discouraged SMBs from investing. ASPs (Application Service Providers), which offer applications over...
[April 2, 2001, 14:11]
3G networks get reality check
News But some other parties might have been more likely to hype it. We tried real hard not to hype that peak number," of 144kbps, said Keith Nowak, a representative for handset maker Nokia. Several years back, when wireless carriers broke ground on...
[December 6, 2002, 10:51]
Radiohead haven't killed the record companies just yet
Blog The fact that Radiohead are opting to let punters choose how much to buy their album for online has been touted as the death-knell for established distribution channels - and I have to admit to getting caught up in the hype too.
[October 9, 2007, 19:26]
Cuban offers Web 2.0 a reminder of things past
News But Cuban's larger-than-life persona -- played out on his ABC's reality series "The Benefactor" and on his blog -- also seemed to draw a squeamish response from the crowd as a reminder of the hype of the dot-com heyday.
[October 7, 2004, 15:30]
Business agility could boost UK Plc by £68bn
News Sara Mayer, e-business marketing manager for BT, admitted there is a lot of hype around agility. In commissioning the survey, BT's intention was to try to dispel some of the hype. The UK could see a 7 percent boost to GDP if companies could improve...
[July 15, 2002, 16:06]
Slate Engine Time (Again)
Blog At least that’s the hype. Sadly the hype did not match the reality. If you were here in Las Vegas for CES, you’d think that the slate format tablet PC was here to save the consumer electronics industry.
[January 8, 2010, 8:24]
VoIP: Paying the price for cheap calls
News The analyst firm is concerned that organisations will be put off moving to the technology because of hype designed to fuel fears and sell more security products. But despite some hype there are concrete examples of VoIP systems being tampered with.
[August 8, 2005, 17:10]
Sycamore Networks makes spectacular US IPO debut
News Most analysts wouldn't speculate on valuation for Sycamore, but did say its technology was more than just hype. If Sycamore's hype-to-reality ratio is about a year, Lucent's and Nortel's could be about two years, said Johnson.
[October 25, 1999, 11:34]
Macworld Focus: Jobs does it again
News Will Apple live up to MacWorld hype? Saturday 5 January Rumours of what Steve Jobs will announce at Macworld are spreading on the Net, and Apple's own hype machine is adding to the feeding frenzy Streamed video: Virtual-reality creation tool allows...
[January 7, 2002, 13:51]
Reading by the light of the fire: Google versus the historian
Blog He continues that the grinding machineries of commerce, copyright and computation just aren't capable of creating the omnilogical dream - the size of the task alone should add some seasoning to the sweet smell of hype.
[November 4, 2007, 14:52]
Palm Bluetooth card cuts wires
News Some of the hype around Bluetooth has faded in recent months with the growing popularity of other wireless networking technologies, notably wireless LANs. Separate the hype from the reality at ZDNet UK's Bluetooth News Section.
[February 21, 2002, 12:43]
Upgrading desktop remains hottest budget item
News And those technologies that will not be ready for another five years include: 3G, RFID, commercial grid computing applications, 64-bit on the desktop and 'on demand' computing -- where "marketing hype is way ahead of delivery".
[November 6, 2003, 15:30]
Be slashes staff and faces hard times
News Lamar Potts, Be's vice president of sales and marketing, acknowledged that Internet appliances' inability to live up to the hype has hurt the company. Over the last 12 months, with all the hype around the Internet appliance industry, we were...
[April 4, 2001, 11:33]
Gnutella spreading itself thin
News When it first was introduced, Gnutella's hype far outshined its performance. Long on hype, but short on specifics, Nicholas promises the "Internet earthquake" that he's calling Gnutella2, to be out "soon.
[January 29, 2001, 15:50]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News I suppose it shows the power of sympathy with a victim of Microsoft hype. What with all the hype about clustering and Wolf Pack. The idea of this column, of course, is global omnipresence. Reading it, you are supposed to never be able to guess...
[July 12, 1997, 8:00]
IDC: Modest IT growth this year
News The hype over Web services, epitomised by Microsoft's .Net initiative , will peak in 2002, Gantz predicted, but compelling products and services are some years off. The hype curve and the reality curve are still pretty far apart there," he said.
[January 4, 2002, 9:06]
Comment: Not Your Garden-Variety GNOME
News And that's where the hype machine comes in. Because it was rush-released for LinuxWorld, GNOME 1.0 undid its hype by being almost impossible for anyone but a propellerhead to install. Hidden among all these commercial vendors discovering the free...
[March 30, 1999, 14:25]
Oracle pushes grid plan
News Some people are less enthusiastic about the new technology and claim it's yet another example of the computer industry succumbing to hype. Grid computing reminds me of hydrogen-powered cars -- a neat thought, but still years away from practical...
[September 9, 2003, 14:05]
