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Government to fail in its online plans
News Technology companies deliver a damning assessment of the government's electronic plans, with a huge majority claiming it will fail to deliver on its promises. Of the 45 technology companies interviewed a huge 87 percent believe the government will...
[February 2, 2001, 11:52]
Three quarters of e-businesses to fail - GartnerGroup
News Upto 75 percent of e-businesses will fail by 2001 according to industry analyst GartnerGroup Tuesday. Analysts at the GartnerGroup's symposium in Cannes claim immature technology, an unready market and poor e-business strategies will see Internet...
[November 3, 1999, 14:15]
"How to Start and Finish a 'No-Fail' Project" Part II: Improving Team Communication
White Papers One might have the best talents in their team, one might have the most detailed specification and the most comprehensive list of requirements, however unless the team communicates effectively - their project will fail miserably.
[May 14, 2009, 1:17]
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Malformed Data Transfer Request can Cause Windows SMTP Service to Fail
Downloads By sending a malformed version of this command, an attacker could cause the SMTP service to fail. This would have the effect of disrupting mail services on the affected system, but would not cause the operating system itself to fail.
[February 28, 2002, 7:00]
Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail to Deliver ROI.
White Papers Too many Business Intelligence (BI) projects fail to deliver on their promises. The Butler Group identifies the key drivers of success, showing how structured approaches can deliver sustainable ROI.
[October 20, 2006, 6:14]
IT projects need not fail with proper planning and testing
Talkback It is not before time for senior government IT officials to wake up to the failure rate of public IT projects (“Seven in 10 government IT projects fail”, 17th May). Sir, An enormous amount of money has been spent on IT projects, such as the NPfIT...
[May 21, 2007, 13:47]
Fat pipes fail Broadband Britain
Talkback We are getting as many people from other providers who fail to give the servce, as new signups. we took on wholesale broadband services to configur for our customers.
[November 5, 2003, 13:48]
Browsers fail password-management security tests
News Chrome was the only tested browser to fail all three of these tests, CIS said. Google's Chrome browser and Apple's Safari have received poor marks in a new set of tests evaluating the security of password-management features in five popular web...
[December 16, 2008, 16:20]
whoops, link fail
Talkback Whoops, blog rant link FAIL! Try: http://tinyurl.com/5rt664 - don't click the previous link, it's offensive! If the mods could please edit the comment .
[October 21, 2008, 19:42]
Hundreds of Wi-Fi products fail tests
News Based on testing of more than 1,000 products over several IEEE 802.11 standards, products that are prepared for Wi-Fi certification testing fail 25 to 30 percent of the time -- or more depending on the technology being tested," said Wi-Fi Alliance...
[January 12, 2004, 14:10]
David's Alpine photo fail
Blog Fail. Fail. Again, fail. OK, so it was a wee bit of a jolly - let's be frank - but I did sincerely intend to file a photo story based on the event. It's not just Alcatel that gets coverage there - some cool stuff was also being done with Google...
[September 2, 2008, 15:04]
Aggressive tactics would fail
Talkback Aggressive tactics such as this would surely fail because if businesses felt pressurized into using an OS they are not comfortable with surely they will look to linux. I Know that would definatley seal the nail in the coffin for Microsoft in my eyes.
[December 11, 2007, 13:20]
Fat pipes fail Broadband Britain
Talkback One of the largest failings of Broadband is the inability for BT to connect up exchanges. I've been a user of ISDN for many a year since it's the only thing I can get in this area; but have recently gone back to using a modem due to the line rental...
[November 6, 2003, 20:45]
Fat pipes fail Broadband Britain
Talkback Um.just one small point. Tesco = NTL NTL = Tesco I know this because I work for both of them. Same IP range etc. Your just as likely to get spam on the NTLWorld account as any other. You just have to stick around for long enough.
[June 21, 2004, 15:46]
IE7 to fail standards test
Talkback I believe Opera manages to pass the test as one of the few browsers out there. I'm sure the Mozilla Community is working on passing the test sooner or later; but I believe that after so many years of silence on the Internet Explorer field...
[April 25, 2006, 14:57]
Fat pipes fail Broadband Britain
Talkback BT is the biggest sinner of all when it comes to inflexibility and lack of customer support. Gripes for me include rubbish modem, no Mac OSX support (for months), no chance to switch to a fixed IP without cancelling my contract and moving to a...
[October 28, 2003, 13:18]
Why did MSBlast fail to take down Microsoft?
Talkback I certainly hope you're joking when you're stating this: We'll probably never know whether the authors of MSBlast intended to have their worm thwarted like this, but I find it difficult to believe this was a mistake.
[August 28, 2003, 21:05]
Hundreds of exchanges fail BT trigger test
Talkback BTs' intentions are now clear on the UKs rural population. I remember when BT were making £1m profit a minute (alledgedly)- now they are turning customers away. However, I suspect that this announcement may be tactic to incite the RDAs, UK...
[October 21, 2003, 16:19]
Linux TV adverts FAIL
Blog Comment I totally agree. I looked at as many of the of the submissions as I could find. Almost all of them made me want to cringe. Hardly any of them attempted to say what linux actually is. Several made the mistake of direct named belittling comparisons...
[April 9, 2009, 21:30]
Hundreds of exchanges fail BT trigger test
Talkback But even if the local exchange has been triggered, it doesn't mean that lines on that exchange will be able to connect to broadband. I live two and a half miles from the local exchange (Tideswell) which can provide broadband to immediate residents...
[October 21, 2003, 9:50]
