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All Change At CeBIT
News Although Longbottom acknowledges that CeBIT is still probably the largest IT trade show in the world, he also points to the fact that visitor numbers have halved from a peak of 850,000 in 2001 to about 424,000 in 2006.
[March 12, 2007, 11:47]
Surveys Show Vista Struggling One Year On
News But analyst Clive Longbottom of Quocirca advised caution when interpreting the figures. Longbottom disputes the widely held belief that users will find it easier to upgrade to Linux than to adapt to Vista's new GUI.
[November 23, 2007, 17:36]
Broadband: The State We're In
News But for the UK as a whole, we're about two years behind where we should be," says Clive Longbottom, service director at analyst Quocirca. A third issue is that, although replacing ISDN with DSL, for example, can pay for itself in a couple of months...
[March 30, 2004, 17:35]
Legal Conundrums Give IT Staff The Blues
News Analyst company Quocirca's service director Clive Longbottom agreed that legislation was set to make managing IT a tougher job. We have to able to prove security in one area and openness in others," said Longbottom, who warned that some consultants...
[November 4, 2004, 9:33]
Toshiba Preps Centrino Price Cut
News According to Clive Longbottom, head of research at Quocirca, this is typical of the way many firms approach new technology. People bought one and plugged it into a phone socket without realising that phreakers were out there calling number after...
[March 26, 2004, 14:45]
Microsoft Comments On Vista SP1 Kernel Reports
News However, Quocirca analyst Clive Longbottom said that kernel updates are relatively routine and usually go largely unnoticed. But, on the whole, it would have to be a very badly behaved application that made calls to the kernel that weren't...
[February 6, 2008, 17:28]
BT Offers Try-it-and-see Web Services
News Quocirca analyst Clive Longbottom said BT was in a good position to pick up web services contracts from its existing users but might struggle beyond that core. And they are a trusted partner," Longbottom said.
[September 26, 2002, 17:07]
Convergence: One Handset Is Better Than Two
News Longbottom claims that Bluephone could be seen as simply BT's way of trying to get people on the roadmap to VoIP. Although Vodafone refused to comment, Longbottom says: "There are many different options open to the mobile operators, but they are...
[May 17, 2005, 15:25]
Video Blog: Small Businesses Are Ripping Out VoIP
Blog Chatting to analyst Clive Longbottom from Quocirca at IP 07, it seems that VoIP can be a complex beast - especially for smaller companies. Clive even goes so far as to say that reliability has been such as issue for smaller players that they have...
[October 16, 2007, 14:19]
Skype Gets Into Video
Talkback Has "Clive Longbottom" actually used it? 30% of Skype's users are already business! And Skype 2.0 video is smooth and far superior to most competitors.
[December 2, 2005, 15:50]
Spyware Industry 'raking In Billions'
News A cookie on its own won't do it, but combined with spyware it is [dangerous]," said Clive Longbottom, an analyst at Quocirca. Longbottom also doubted that spyware was generating $2bn a year. Spyware writers are generating $2bn (£1bn) of revenue...
[May 4, 2005, 12:15]
Dell Plans Relentless Diversification
News Clive Longbottom, research director at analyst house Quocirca, said: "Although Michael Dell is a big proponent of the direct model, he realises the big-end stuff is not a direct sell. However, Longbottom adds: "The story that Dell is 100 per cent...
[January 30, 2003, 8:23]
UK Pubs Get Wi-Fi
News Clive Longbottom, research director at Quocirca, said: "The business models haven't been sorted out yet. Longbottom also said a model may win in the long term where a premise pays a flat rate to a company managing a hot spot and then makes money by...
[March 6, 2003, 15:38]
Video Blog: VoIP Security Is A Red Herring
Blog Clive Longbottom, from analysts Quocirca had some interesting things to say on the subject of Voice over IP - particularly about whether merging voice and data networks has inherent security risks. Down at the IP 07 show in London's Earls Court...
[October 16, 2007, 13:52]
Dell Claims To Be Carbon-neutral
News Clive Longbottom, of business and IT analyst firm Quocirca said: "It really worries me when companies claim they have achieved carbon neutrality, when it's really not possible. Longbottom continued: "Carbon neutrality is a large amount of greenwash.
[August 7, 2008, 8:32]
IT Staff Can't Be Trusted, Claim Self-appointed Software Police
News Will they hell," said Clive Longbottom, service director for analyst Quocirca. IT workers cannot be trusted and may need to be monitored when using the Internet, the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) warned business leaders on Friday.
[April 29, 2005, 13:35]
2006 To Be 'best Year Since The Boom' For Contractors
News Quocirca analyst Clive Longbottom said he was sceptical of a big change in the contracting market. IT contractors could earn more money this year than since the peak of the dot-com boom, research suggests.
[February 6, 2006, 8:55]
Novell Makes Mobile Play At CeBIT
News So far it is not integrated with Novell's eDirectory directory services software, which makes it "about as much use as a chocolate teapot," according to Clive Longbottom, service director at analyst firm Quocirca.
[March 13, 2002, 10:22]
Skype Gets Into Video
News This should relegate it to the realm of the consumer, with perhaps the occasional ad hoc business call, said Quocirca analyst Clive Longbottom. Skype has unveiled the latest version of its popular internet telephony application, with free video...
[December 2, 2005, 10:10]
UK Slipping Down The Grid, Says Oracle
News The slowdown has occured because some issues are "coming to the fore" said Clive Longbottom, services director for analysts Quocirca, which produces the Grid Index on behalf of Oracle. Whatever its enthusiastic proponents such as Oracle may wish...
[June 22, 2006, 16:30]
