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Cynicism over Newham Linux U-turn
Blog Steel's comments - and there was more related wisdom flowing to delegates at the IP'06 event where he was speaking - has met with cynicism from ZDNet's readers (see the talkbacks on the article). The controversial CIO at London's Borough of Newham...
[October 20, 2006, 17:12]
IT cynicism fuels outsourcing failure
News A failure to involve the IT department in outsourcing decisions is fuelling cynicism about the real motives for outsourcing - and leading to a dangerous disconnect between the board and IT managers, according to new research.
[October 17, 2005, 17:10]
IT cynicism fuels outsourcing failure
Talkback Usually the motivation to outsource is fuelled by a total lack of understanding of what IT is really about (=communication; as in: can you justify the reason for your existense). Thus ending up paying so much more for so much less because if you...
[October 17, 2005, 21:30]
Adobe cynicism
Talkback Stokeymike - I think 'excuses' is the right word to describe Adobe's reasoning. Why not pressure them? We will continue to. Maybe Adobe is getting nervous. We'd like to be able to report some movement on these prices, as we don't think this is fair...
[April 17, 2007, 16:44]
Cynicism noted
Talkback Strong opinions from ZDNet's readers here. It looks like several of you have concerns about some underlying issues affecting the National Open Centre. We'll be keeping a close eye on some of those concerns.
[March 2, 2007, 16:21]
Wales to get Yuletide broadband push
Talkback Forgive the cynicism but we here in Knighton, Mid Wales, feel like we're chasing our own tails. Yeah right. Over 2 years ago we cleared the BT hurdle of percentage of househokders requesting that BT open the exchange for broadband.
[December 24, 2004, 13:32]
Six thousand pages, one month, no chance...
Blog Weary of cynicism, I've tried to believe that Microsoft's approach to international open document standards really does have the user in mind. I want to believe: there's enough nonsense to worry about without having to worry about gratuitously...
[January 18, 2007, 13:41]
BT hoovers up broadband punters with 'free' flights
Talkback After 6 months of cynicism I finally received a call from Rise today asling me what day I wanted to cruise and taking the booking there and then. Tell you in June if it all went to plan
[December 21, 2004, 18:47]
Do you believe these readers' feedback?
Member Review It's a great little phone with one of the best interfaces I've used, but, forgive my cynicism, don't a lot of these postings sound a mite like they've been 'sponsored'? N.B.if you're a Mac user, think carefully of using PocketMac to sync.
[October 27, 2004, 16:20]
Netscape 8 'breaks' IE
Talkback There has been too much cynicism of Microsoft. Myself, I don't use IE, nor do I plan to in the future. Instead I use Mozilla Firefox. Netscape, to me, while more secure, is less usable than IE. What this article fails to mention is that there are...
[May 27, 2005, 1:54]
This is a spoiler
Talkback Your cynicism is well founded in my view. This announcement is a classic spoiler tactic and a direct result of the Tory party's recent pro-OSS policy announcements. Now Labour can claim, as they have done, that they've had an OSS policy in place...
[February 26, 2009, 9:49]
re: Apple is not green enough, says campaigner
Talkback No not really - more cynicism really - if it had been any other company it wouldn't grab any headlines. "you're obviously a proponent of the "there's no such thing as bad publicity" school of marketing.
[December 6, 2006, 15:34]
HP: Open source can be more profitable than proprietary
Talkback Forgive my increasing cynicism about ZDNet's editorial policy, but statements such as this are made on the same day as ZDNet reports "Microsoft beats earnings forecast". "The news that HP could be realising greater profits from the technology will...
[October 27, 2006, 11:56]
Quocirca's Changing Channels - So What Are the Benefits of an Enterprise RSS Server?
White Papers For resellers, this cynicism will run deeper as on the surface this is more free stuff with no opportunity for product margins and little for service revenue. It is easy to be cynical about many of the so-called Web 2.0 technologies - blogs, wikis...
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
Straight Talking - This Is Not About Polar Bears
White Papers If Spock were an IT analyst even his eyebrows might spasm uncontrollably with cynicism were such a claim to be made. In a recent briefing to Quocirca regarding the "Greenness" of a vendor's new hardware device the assurance was firmly made by the...
[March 1, 2009, 0:24]
Cuban offers Web 2.0 a reminder of things past
News Hope and cynicism sparred to a draw on Tuesday at the glitzy opening banquet of the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, as serial entrepreneur and reality TV show host Mark Cuban took the stage to talk about what's next for the 10-year-old...
[October 7, 2004, 15:30]
Doctors lose faith in NHS IT programme
News Most doctors have lost all confidence in the Government's ability to deliver real improvements in healthcare through its controversial NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) which is beset with "distrust and cynicism", according to the results of a...
[January 10, 2006, 10:35]
T-Mobile boss slams mobile Internet cynics
News Obermann criticised the "cynicism" around mobile Internet use and "experts" unimpressed with Web access on mobiles. T-Mobile chief executive Rene Obermann today hit out at mobile Internet doubters, comparing them to the analysts who predicted...
[November 28, 2005, 9:00]
Agile’s enterprise evolution?
Blog developer cynicism - no really, it’s there), Agile focuses on keeping code simple, testing often and delivering functional “bits” of the application as soon as they're ready. As we know, Agile’s methodology for the creative process anticipates the...
[October 1, 2007, 18:06]
Networks '98: Intranets "easy to use and administer" - Novell
News There may be a few hard-pressed IT staff who would disagree with that sentiment but they have the opportunity to have any cynicism exorcised by taking a Novell 'Test Drive' at the show. Novell's promotional blurb for Networks-telecom '98 makes the...
[June 23, 1998, 6:36]
