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Scottish hoteliers jam mobiles
News This is a way to enforce etiquette of mobile phone usage where polite persuasion has failed," Paul Kan, chairman of Champion Technology Holdings -- a Hong Kong-based company selling signal jamming technology -- said in a report from news agency...
[September 1, 2003, 9:30]
Kevin Mitnick: The great pretender
News Following his run in with law, Mitnick now puts his powers of persuasion to good, running a company that advises businesses on avoiding social engineering attacks. Without the current glut of naive Web users to exploit, would-be cyber-thieves and...
[June 14, 2006, 11:40]
Making sense of SOA is no game
Leader In real life as a manager, an employee or both, the problems are rarely with things or actions, they're with communications, with perceptions and persuasion. IBM is proud of Innov8, its zeitgeist-flavoured service-oriented architecture training tool.
[May 23, 2007, 18:07]
Revealed: Tech titans of the past 25 years
News Jobs's powers of persuasion are sometimes referred to as his "reality distortion field". The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a 25-year-old trade body that certifies IT professionals and is funded by major vendors, including...
[November 13, 2007, 13:08]
2001: The weird world of tech
News The power of email as a persuasion tool was proven yet again shortly before the UK census earlier this year. ZDNet UK strives all year round to bring you the latest news in the tech sector, and once in a while there are stories that are just, well...
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
Apple's mini big idea
Leader When people decide to upgrade their old PCs, it's going to take very little persuasion for them to give the Mac a go. Apple has made some questionable decisions in its life, but it's never been short of chutzpah.
[January 12, 2005, 12:50]
Techies' poor business skills impede progress
News He said: "It is around the softer people skills — persuasion, pushing a vision, leadership — to get the business to make better use of the technology. Poor communication, leadership and project-management skills among IT staff are hindering change...
[June 27, 2007, 17:07]
Taking the rap for DRM
Leader The only right yo' music has is to remain silent, try and change that and the lawyers become violent, don' matter what ya want, that's not in the equation, and the boys who make the rules ain't open to persuasion
[September 19, 2006, 16:05]
Nuggets: Rio 600 pushes MP3 players forward
News It worked on two out of three, but then only with some persuasion. There's a lot of history behind the Rio. This is the device that set the RIAA off in the US, and forced a legal case that had the shrill Hilary Rosen hanging her head in shame after...
[August 29, 2000, 14:31]
Microsoft announces browser-based Office apps
News Google Apps has received interest from Procter & Gamble, which only decided to stick with Office after persuasion on the part of Microsoft. After years of questioning the value of net-based productivity applications, Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday...
[October 28, 2008, 17:09]
Steve Malone: 'IT's Like This...'
News For some time, it has been known that if you have a collection of users who, either by default or persuasion, make your Web site their 'home' page, you get an awful lot of page views when they wake their browsers up each morning.
[June 23, 1998, 11:38]
Red Hat ready to tackle Microsoft's desktop dominance
News Price persuasion Red Hat is warming to the use of the Linux operating system on desktop computers, a difficult market where customers are picky and Microsoft is the leader. Red Hat, the leading seller of Linux, gets the vast majority of its revenue...
[June 24, 2002, 16:41]
Lawyers sceptical of "grooming" laws
News He added that a degree of persuasion will have to be evident in the conversations, as well as the man showing a clear intent to molest the child. Government plans to criminalise the "grooming" of children on the Internet could be subverted by...
[March 6, 2001, 11:44]
Assessing the tech market carnage
News From a purely practical, nonfinancial level, no one is denying the Internet's lasting benefits: Email has revolutionised communication; children can research school reports on the Web even if they don't have encyclopaedias or live near libraries...
[March 12, 2001, 9:00]
Google plays tag with tricksters
News Rumours of the new controls have been circulating in recent days on several blogs including Micro Persuasion and Scobleiser. Google will introduce new technology controls to thwart people using blogs to manipulate rankings in its search results.
[January 19, 2005, 7:45]
Sun enters Google orbit
News That persuasion shouldn't be too hard; Sun Microsystems and Google announced a multiyear partnership on Tuesday to help spread and develop each other's software, a deal that includes OpenOffice.org, Java and OpenSolaris from Sun, and Google's
[October 5, 2005, 9:10]
Oracle buys Sun - but who really wins?
Blog When open source came along, Sun gradually adopted it and, with no little external persuasion it seemed at the time, even made some of its own, expensively developed technology open source. But, given the very different nature of the two companies...
[April 23, 2009, 9:20]
Small Business: Mobile Payments Big Money or High Risk?
Blog Perhaps only the long-sighted persuasion of the markets invisible hand will foretell, but for now there are a lot of businesses treading water hoping that you too will adopt a mobile commerce solution.
[April 9, 2009, 14:11]
Mobile phone firms referred to Competition Commission
News Oftel announced on Monday that it has formally asked the UK's Competition Commission to investigate whether Vodafone, mmO2, One2One and Orange are charging too much for mobile phone calls between their networks.
[January 7, 2002, 14:34]
Dreaming of a Green Christmas...
Blog The idea is that in return for donating £1.00 or more to the charity, you get to send an electronic card to friends and family without sacrificing anything of an arboreal persuasion. IT charity Computer Aid - which takes old PCs from businesses and...
[December 15, 2006, 10:52]
