Outsourcers 'exaggerate their abilities'
News Enticed by increasing customer enthusiasm, vendors continue to overhype their capabilities," Forrester analysts said in the report. Companies hawking business-process outsourcing services exaggerate their abilities, according to a recent report...
[September 4, 2003, 12:45]
News Roundup: 3G: Too expensive and too slow?
News Delays and overhype are standing in the way of a positive answer Only a little while ago mobile phone companies were falling over themselves in praise of 3G. Third-generation networks were going to bring real-time video streaming to our phones...
[February 6, 2001, 14:20]
Seeing past the RFID hype
News I'm not sure if there is the typical level of overhype. When it comes to radiofrequency identification technology, the conventional wisdom is that it will certainly revolutionise the way manufacturers, distributors and retailers track products and...
[March 4, 2004, 9:25]
Be slashes staff and faces hard times
News The failure of Internet appliances to take off has as much to do with overhype as it does with the slowing computer sales. On Tuesday, operating-system maker Be slashed 27 jobs and watched its stock plunge 33 percent to close at 81 cents.
[April 4, 2001, 11:33]
Inventor's dreams take (short) flight
News It's very easy to overhype this. But entrepreneur Michael Moshier is convinced his first outings with the personal aircraft he designed are the start of something big. It's exhilarating beyond description, just the ability to lift off two or three...
[January 17, 2002, 13:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We also like press releases from research companies that say things like "enticed by increasing customer enthusiasm, vendors continue to overhype their capabilities", which we think means companies promise more than they can deliver in order to...
[September 5, 2003, 17:35]
Porn Trojan may mark new era for Mac security
News Symantec claimed that Intego tends to "overhype things", but Alex Eckelberry, of security firm Sunbelt, disagreed on his blog, citing the firm's resident Mac guru as being "genuinely surprised" by the Trojan discovery.
[November 1, 2007, 7:45]
WiMax vendors leap into testing
News While WiMax's number one fan, Intel, has continued to overhype the technology well beyond what it will be able to do, others appear to have realized the right way to fight back against the backlash is to prove that WiMAX can actually do something...
[March 15, 2005, 16:55]
