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Carly Fiorina Draws Crowd In Geneva
Talkback Do you have an article on the lack of attendance at Telecom 2003 in Geneva? It seems it was a bust since there were no crowds like before and many of the usual companies were not there. Is there an article?
[October 23, 2003, 17:50]
Virtual Insanity In Geneva...
Blog I'm currently out in Geneva attending a two day conference called NetEvents which basically brings together analysts, journalists and industry types to chew over some of the big issues in tech and virtualisation is one of the subjects on the menu...
[February 22, 2007, 8:07]
Carly Fiorina Draws Crowd In Geneva
News Just days after being turned to by California governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger, HP chief executive Carly Fiorina cemented her position as First Lady of Tech by choosing the subject of 'e-inclusion' as she addressed telecoms delegates from all...
[October 13, 2003, 16:30]
Grid Computing At The University Hospitals Of Geneva
White Papers The fact that there are more than 5,400 computers in the University Hospitals of Geneva with most of them being used at most 5%-10% of the time shows how much potential there is to use the resources in a more efficient way.
[November 30, 2004, 23:00]
BT Cellnet And Convergys - Billing For Next-Generation Services With Geneva
White Papers In January 2000, BT Cellnet and BT Genie launched the UK's first fully operational, commercially available WAP services, announcing sales of £1.5m just over a year later. BT Cellnet launched the UK's first GPRS commercial service for corporations...
[June 17, 2004, 0:00]
Details Emerge Of 'shocking' OOXML Meeting
News As Microsoft's bid to have its Office Open XML specification made an ISO standard approaches the final deadline of midnight on Saturday, more details have emerged of last month's controversial meeting in Geneva which attempted to resolve technical...
[March 28, 2008, 15:56]
Treaty Casts Shadow On Public Domain
News At a meeting in Geneva, the World Intellectual Property Organisation's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights agreed to prepare a draft of the treaty by 1 April, 2004. Broadcasters see this as a way to extend rights to noncopyrighted...
[November 7, 2003, 14:50]
Keep Internet Out Of UN Control, Says US
Talkback Lemme just point out one example that has completely turned my stomach against the US, during the geneva convention, when talks about the treatment of POWs was outlined, and it came time to sign and agree, many countries did, but the US, however...
[October 20, 2005, 16:26]
Microsoft OOXML Faces Crunch Time At ISO
News The ISO members who voted on the draft in September will have 30 days to change their votes if they wish," said Roger Frost, a spokesman for the Geneva-based agency. Those have been whittled down to 1,100 comments for consideration during the...
[February 26, 2008, 8:00]
Australia Abstains On Final OOXML Vote
News Most recently this involved finalising queries at February's ballot resolution meeting (BRM) in Geneva, which was described as a "shocking tale" by one Brazilian delegate. Due to a lack of stakeholder commitment to ongoing engagement in the...
[March 31, 2008, 8:15]
Ten Years Ago: Switching On The World Wide Web
News A: I was visiting the laboratory called CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland -- a big international lab funded by European countries -- and a guy by the name of Tim Berners-Lee asked me to come see him demonstrate the application he'd just written called...
[December 10, 2001, 16:37]
Internet Governance Battles To Continue
News But Matthew Shears, the Internet Society's Geneva-based director of public policy, told CNET News.com that during the discussions earlier this week, "it became apparent that a number of delegations weren't comfortable with the role of the ITU in...
[November 18, 2005, 15:50]
Microsoft's OOXML Limps Through ISO Meeting
News The meeting in Geneva did not include a new ballot, but was intended to resolve issues, and give OOXML's proposers more time (until 29 March) to raise the necessary two-thirds majority to move to the next stage of the standards process.
[March 4, 2008, 15:21]
Dyson Ends Support For ICANN 1.0
News On 3 and 4 March, ICANN is due to meet the ccTLDs at a meeting of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva. One answer could lie in closer cooperation with the ITU, which ICANN will discuss at the Geneva meeting.
[February 10, 2003, 12:10]
Proprietary Past Looms Over Microsoft OOXML Hopes
News More than 30 member countries of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) have attended a ballot resolution meeting in Geneva to prepare for a final decision on Microsoft's contentious OOXML document format.
[February 28, 2008, 15:27]
UN Not In The Dark On Y2K
News The UN ordered staff in Geneva to switch off all computers Saturday, and kick started emergency power supplies in order to be sure that diplomats and other international dignities won't be left in the dark on January 1, 2000.
[September 27, 1999, 14:48]
Internet2 Sets New Speed Record
News The network link used to set the record reaches from Los Angeles to Geneva, Switzerland. The new record used IPv4, the current system for Internet addressing, and was set by members from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Geneva...
[April 21, 2004, 10:40]
Secure Wireless Access For Discerning Clients At Clinique La Prairie
White Papers Clinique La Prairie is located on the shores of Lake Geneva in Montreux, amidst some of the most magnificent scenery in Switzerland. It offers a wide range of medical and paramedical services designed to combat the human ageing process, together...
[December 19, 2006, 23:00]
Virtualisation Is About Politics Not Technology?
Blog Discussions at the NetEvents conference in Geneva have moved on to all things virtual with a panel led by Yankee Group analyst Camille Mendler who claims that terminology is one of the things holding back the wider uptake of the technology.
[February 22, 2007, 10:23]
Improving Customer Service Through An Exhaustive Repository Of Client Information
White Papers Founded in 1805 in Geneva, Pictet is one of the largest Swiss private banks, with more than 110 billion dollars under management. Pictet realized that it could increase its employees' swiftness in meeting customer requests by offering them...
[May 24, 2005, 0:00]
