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Wikipedia Accused Of 'US-centric Bias'
News An Australian academic has accused Wikipedia of "US-centric bias" over the way the online encyclopaedia's administrators edit user-generated entries. In an entry published for e-journal The National Forum, Tim Anderson, a senior lecturer in...
[February 12, 2008, 7:46]
Nintendo's New Year's Revolutions
News For more, click here.number of not only worldwide but even US-centric million-unit selling games, and Sony doesn't. By first creating gaming-centric systems and consoles, whether it's handhelds or home consoles.
[January 19, 2006, 15:25]
Smartphones Heading For The Mass Market
News Palm's new $99.99 (£48.99) Centro, the sleeker, hipper update to the business-centric Treo, is the latest example of a phone that provides all the data-centric features of a business device with the price tag and design of a consumer phone.
[October 1, 2007, 12:19]
Sybase TechWave Draws Geoffrey Moore Inside The Tornado
Blog We’re moving towards a world where these three application characteristics will exist and I have three cornerstones I’d like to make you aware of and think about…” we’re going from a compute centric paradigm to a communication centric paradigm...
[August 5, 2008, 19:11]
US Report: Jini Stuck In Its Bottle?
News In the discussions we had with IBM, they were disappointed that Jini was such a closed architecture and so Java-centric, as opposed to being more open to CORBA and DCOM and other standards," says ObjectSpace President and CEO David Norris.
[August 4, 1998, 12:11]
US Online Shopping Passes £7bn
News Consumers have been very deal-centric, and e-tailers and retailers have been offering a lot of deals for them. Shoppers continued to hit the Net as the holiday shopping season headed into the final lap, spending $11.35bn (about £7.2bn) in the US...
[December 24, 2002, 8:30]
Intel's Floating Bodies
Blog Intel got on the phone on Monday to tell us chip-centric hacks about a bunch of papers the company was presenting to the 2008 Symposium on VLSI Technology in Hawaii. It uses a special very thin silicon on insulator technology which allows us to use...
[June 19, 2008, 8:03]
Is Apple Driving Music To Mobiles?
Talkback I have been reading similar articles between Apple and Carriers, but the fact is the view of the carriers are all very US centric where the phones are largely subsidized by the carrier. We are speaking of less than 5% here.largest markets in Asia...
[April 21, 2005, 2:26]
Beyond Web Services: Towards On-Demand Complex Adaptive Environments
White Papers Net centric operations for the US Department of Defense (DoD) can be considered a complex adaptive system, representing a shift from traditional system-based interactions toward information-based web service transactions requiring highly secure...
[July 21, 2005, 6:00]
Competition In The Internet Backbone Market
White Papers The main argument is for a restless evolution of the structure of the market, whereby an highly concentrated US-centric industry, with a strict vertical hierarchy between Internet Service Providers and a neat separation between first-level ISPs...
[October 19, 2007, 1:00]
Nationwide Gains A "360-Degree" View Of The Customer To Advance Its "On Your Side" Promise
White Papers The company's vision of making processes more customer-centric ran into the prevalent reality in insurance today - product-centric, independent information systems. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Nationwide is one of the largest diversified insurance and...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Unisys Case Study: Westernbank
White Papers They chose Unisys Customer Contact Solutions because of their ability to support Westernbank's customer-centric culture, support multiple channels, and flexibly adapt to change. Westernbank, Puerto Rico, is one of the largest commercial banks on...
[June 2, 2007, 1:00]
ITSM-Based Management Advances Customer-Centric Processes
White Papers APS worked with HP partner Pepperweed Consulting to implement an HP OpenView environment based on ITIL best practices that consolidates 15 disparate IS groups, toolsets and processes; cuts downtime by 50 percent; improves mean time to repair by 75...
[March 15, 2006, 23:00]
BCS Calls For UK Net Neutrality Debate
News Because internet users in the US tend to have a smaller range of ISPs to choose from than users in the UK, the consensus here has been that net neutrality is a US-centric debate. Professor Nigel Shadbolt said on Friday that, because so much of the...
[September 17, 2007, 16:39]
Report: International E-commerce Sales Grow
News The growth of consumer e-commerce in Europe has been hampered by a US-centric view of e-commerce. A study from market researcher Dataquest released Wednesday predicts that online spending around the world should hit $12.2bn in the fourth quarter...
[September 23, 1999, 12:02]
Novell UK Says Sales Up Sharply
News Then if you look at the penetration of IT as a whole, it's still quite US-centric. What we tend to see in the US is new product exhaustion. Living up to new management's promise of ditching its 'if-they'd-invented-sushi-they'd-have-called-it-cold...
[February 7, 1997, 11:25]
Google Could Bid For UK Wireless Spectrum
News Although analysts have scoffed at the idea of Google launching its own wireless handset — they claim it flies in the face of the company's existing ad-centric business model — Google has submitted a US patent for a mobile-payment system called...
[September 21, 2007, 14:23]
Firms Alienate Online Job Seekers
News Of those who had a relatively well developed corporate careers section, the vast majority were US centric, with few or no European/UK based roles advertised. The report author, Richard Ogden told ZDNet, "When all the available positions on global...
[February 13, 2003, 15:57]
Leader: Raw Iron Or Wintel - Battle Lines Are Drawn
News Raw Iron backers note that today's full-fat system software is way too bloated for browser-centric computing and that Microsoft has enslaved us all with expensive and labyrinthine licensing deals. When and Oracle and Sun add some flesh to their Raw...
[December 14, 1998, 12:10]
Dyson Ends Support For ICANN 1.0
News Dyson admitted that currently ICANN is unduly US-centric. It is based in Los Angeles and has too high a proportion of US staff," she said. It is moving in the right direction, but it does still have a US mentality.
[February 10, 2003, 12:10]
