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'Short-term view' hits financial IT sector morale
News The result is that long-term strategic plans are not followed because of short-term objectives. Think of financial services companies as cutting-edge users of IT? Think again. Around two-thirds of IT managers in the sector say IT isn't viewed...
[April 3, 2003, 8:51]
Motorola's bruising brush with short-term thinking
Leader While nimbleness of thought and action is good for tactics, it's positively dangerous in strategy, where the appreciation of long-term action and long-term goals is worth any 10 short-term reactions. In IT, long-term strategic thinking easily...
[February 19, 2007, 15:51]
The perfect UI tester: a man with short-term memory loss?
Blog We have an intriguing post from ZDNet.co.uk member kisunssi who claims to have no short-term memory. He goes on to note that he sees this as a USP, and is wondering whether someone with no short-term memory would be a good UI tester.
[June 19, 2007, 13:03]
Short-term fix
Talkback Short term fix, ignoring the long term effects. Is this the same government that closed a load of tax loopholes some years ago, thus causing a mass skills exodus abroad and leaving us with a skills shortage in the first place?
[May 26, 2009, 12:12]
Short term greed means long term harm for mobile operators
Talkback I agree. The MNos need to get closer to empathgising with the all the customers and ensuring that the services are well defined and priced transparently. We have left behind the concepts of metered charging with units that were defined in the...
[November 6, 2005, 21:31]
Short term greed means long term harm for mobile operators
Talkback I use Orange pay-as-you-go. The default homepage on the phones they provide is "orangeworld". As an experiment, I went to the orangeworld home page, then looked to see how much data I'd used. I'd sent 3647B and received 14599B.
[November 3, 2005, 13:22]
The perfect UI tester: a man with short-term memory loss?
Blog Comment STM does not work like RAM in a computer, it is a connective semantic memory filter. It relies on recognition of what is personally important to the individual. Survival cues are, to an extent, "hard-wired" but the rest is basically to do with what...
[June 21, 2007, 11:29]
The perfect UI tester: a man with short-term memory loss?
Blog Comment I think Lindsay might not have read the original post fully. It isn't about whether a computer can help with STM loss. It is about whether someone with STM would be useful as a UI tester. In answer to the question, I would say that someone with STM...
[June 26, 2007, 10:12]
The perfect UI tester: a man with short-term memory loss?
Blog Comment Associative and "subconscious" work is the work of LTM "Long Term Memory" and by definition, that "personally important" material has to be already there in some form. Hi, First of all, it depends on the nature of the damage to STM.
[June 27, 2007, 13:22]
Short-Term Solution for 3G Networks in Linux: umtsmon
White Papers When not at home and in need of Internet access, one can search for an open Wifi access point. But if there is none available, one will have to set up a connection through a mobile network - GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, or WCDMA networks.
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Short term greed means long term harm for mobile operators
Leader Mobile data is being held back by fear, uncertainty and doubt — IT's own three horsemen of the apocalypse. But whereas FUD is normally dealt out by companies trying to reduce confidence in their competition, this brand is being applied by the...
[November 1, 2005, 13:10]
Short-Term Prediction of Wind Farm Power: A Data Mining Approach
White Papers This paper examines time series models for predicting the power of a wind farm at different time scales, i.e.min and hour-long intervals. The time series models are built with data mining algorithms. Five different data mining algorithms have been...
[August 29, 2009, 1:21]
From Outsourcing Projects to Strategic Relationships: Converting Short-Term IT Services Projects Into Long-Term Multi-Year Strategic Relationships
White Papers Organizations typically initiate their global sourcing efforts by selecting a small part of their ADM projects to be undertaken from offshore locations. Gradually, they increase the offshore component of such projects as they get more and more...
[July 3, 2009, 0:00]
Georgia High School Students Appreciate Short- and Long-Term Benefits of Microsoft Office Specialist Certification
White Papers Setting up Cherokee High School's Microsoft Office Specialist testing facility wasn't easy. A closet was converted into a testing lab, computer upgrades were purchased, and funds to pay for student exams were negotiated.
[June 13, 2006, 0:00]
Outsourcing still driven by short-term payoff
News Short-term cost gains are still the main driver for outsourcing IT, according to new research from analyst Gartner. Reducing costs and improving efficiencies were cited as the main reasons for outsourcing by more than half of the 945 respondents to...
[March 16, 2006, 12:15]
PlayStation 2 arrives in US
News In the short term, that will be a big deal, McNealy said. That may make the PlayStation 2 hard to find this holiday season, but analysts say it won't hurt the long-term success of the system. The good news, analysts say, is that consumers have...
[October 26, 2000, 8:40]
Memory Checker
Downloads Want to check out your short term memory, challenge your memory power? Memory Checker is an interesting mobile puzzle game that checks your short term memory. That? s great! Now you can enjoy the great fun brought by ?
[August 15, 2009, 8:00]
Gates: Microsoft to target e-commerce search
News Microsoft still wants to be all things to more people in search, but, in the short term, the company would settle for just attracting people when they want to buy products. Gates reiterated that Microsoft is a long-term player in the search market...
[May 22, 2008, 8:16]
IT managers need to leave 'nerdy closets'
News Information technology is not exciting any more because it can no longer deliver short-term strategic gains, according to a senior executive of a global food company. The challenge for IT managers was how to get people to think the way they used to...
[October 1, 2003, 9:15]
Dr Memory Color
Downloads Take a challenge to your short term memory! It is especially helpful in improving the short-term memory. If Dr memory Color is too hard to you, try Dr Memory Number. Dr Memory Color is designed to train your memory and concentration for colors.
[June 29, 2009, 21:16]
