Outsourcers 'exaggerate their abilities'
News Companies hawking business-process outsourcing services exaggerate their abilities, according to a recent report from Forrester Research. What's more, business process outsourcing (BPO) will not generate the sort of big deals that large service...
[September 4, 2003, 12:45]
Outsourcers 'exaggerate their abilities'
Talkback Apparently Forrester are at this very moment researching astonishing claims that Pope John Paul II may be a Catholic.
[September 5, 2003, 10:31]
MPs condemn failures of MoD personnel system
News In its annual report on the performance of the ministry, it says there were fundamental problems in the design of the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA) and that it is "difficult to exaggerate the magnitude of the failure".
[March 31, 2009, 13:14]
Show me the money!
Talkback I think you slightly exaggerate when you say that open source provides millions of jobs. I do not know many Open Source companies that actually make a profit so how can they provide millions of jobs! If you mean there are plenty of developers...
[July 27, 2008, 20:22]
Small doesn't mean insignificant
Leader Most people are more likely to undervalue their personal worth than exaggerate it. Self awareness is a difficult skill to master. It's more natural to focus on your faults than your strengths — especially if everyone else is bigger than you.
[November 29, 2006, 14:00]
Unwise
Talkback Perhaps they did exaggerate a little. Seems to me that some Eva Chen's responses were rather ill considered. Is she for real? Whilst aknowledging that AV companies have had a hard time keeping up, that doesn't invalidate their efforts.
[July 1, 2008, 9:03]
'Most popular homepage ever' denounced as a hoax
News The letter says that Cagri's original site was copied from its location on another service and modified to exaggerate its oddball character. A personal home page that shot to cult popularity around the Internet, featuring a slightly over-amorous...
[November 9, 1999, 10:46]
VoIP: Paying the price for cheap calls
News On the one hand, he points out that, as head of the Jericho Forum, which aims to both provide security best practice to peers and ensure that vendors are catering to users' needs, Lacey's views carry weight and he has no real reason to exaggerate.
[August 8, 2005, 17:10]
Microsoft: Phishing losses greatly over-estimated
News Fraud victims have a tendency to exaggerate their loss. The financial losses experienced by victims of phishing scams may be up to 50 times less than estimated by analysts, according to a Microsoft study.
[January 9, 2009, 16:15]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Yet there's hope: the company has realised that its proprietary, high-cost approach doesn't cut the mustard when you can go out and for the price of a SGI memory upgrade buy three Alpha-based boxes stuffed with Linux and use them to make a movie...
[January 16, 1999, 6:28]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Yet there's hope: the company has realised that its proprietary, high-cost approach doesn't cut the mustard when you can go out and for the price of a SGI memory upgrade buy three Alpha-based boxes stuffed with Linux and use them to make a movie...
[January 16, 1999, 6:28]
Nvidia GPU is seven times faster than NV15
News Nvidia has tended to exaggerate in the past. Pioneer of the first ever GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), Nvidia is now introducing a programmable GPU, seven times faster than the original Geforce 2 Ultra, the NV15.
[November 24, 2000, 5:35]
Google Earth 4 beta review
Reviews The Options dialogue box now lets you fine-tune views, such as choosing from three levels to exaggerate the displayed elevation. The original Google Earth already served up breathtaking fly-by views of the planet, as well as driving directions and...
[June 14, 2006, 9:35]
Reading by the light of the fire: Google versus the historian
Blog He himself recognises this but declines to engage: ".it is hard to exaggerate what is already becoming possible month by month and what will become possible in the next few years," - instead of examining this absolutely key observation, he falls...
[November 4, 2007, 14:52]
BT: Google is our biggest threat
News They might exaggerate a little to get their attention and open up their minds a little bit — that’s what he might have done. Google is becoming BT’s biggest competitor. That’s the surprise assessment of BT’s chief information officer, Al-Noor Ramji...
[June 8, 2006, 13:15]
The interview: Strategies for fielding common questions
News Being asked to rate yourself on technical skills is fairly common, and the temptation to exaggerate to make a good impression can be strong. But for most of us, interviews are no walk in the park. Goofing up on an interview can not only cost you a...
[May 31, 2002, 14:38]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Oh, I exaggerate. Wednesday 24/04/2002 To One Aldwych, where Intel is hosting one of its regular Views at Ten breakfast briefings. This one was trailed as being all about the Pentium 4M -- the mobile version, all low power and cute packaging -- but...
[April 27, 2002, 0:03]
Software Scrabble: D.E.V.E.L.O.P.E.R.
Blog Does Every Vendor Exaggerate Lavishly Over Products’ Endless Rewards? Here’s a bit of software application development scrabble for you to serve as Friday down time. Hopefully this comes with enough of a thought-provoking nudge that you might even...
[August 21, 2008, 23:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I exaggerate, but not by much. Wednesday 31/3/2004 Windows 95 was a joke. So saith Frederico Baumhardt today, senior consultant for infrastructure and security. I doubt there'd be much disagreement among the cognoscenti -- there certainly wasn't in...
[April 2, 2004, 18:40]
