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Service-Oriented Architecture For Leading Swiss IT Outsourcer To Financial Services Industry

White Papers Swiss market leader in back-office and IT services for private banking and wealth management was becoming a victim of its own success. A stable platform based on BEA WebLogic and BEA AquaLogic integrates the diverse system landscape of banking IT...

[July 1, 2008, 1:01]

Crashing Out At Glastonbury Festival

Talkback Sure I agree that Glasto is a victim of its own success and I prefered the days back in 1995 when I first went but until one of the other festivals even comes close it will continue to be the main event of the summer.

[April 2, 2004, 15:21]

Siebel Email Marketing Best Practice Brief: Permission-Based Email Marketing

White Papers However, email marketing is falling victim to its own success, as legitimate marketers are struggling to get their messages delivered, opened, and acted upon under the onslaught of unsolicited commercial messages (spam).

[June 5, 2004, 1:03]

Jane Wakefield: Keep On Believing The Internet Hype

News In many ways the Internet was bound to become a victim of its own success. But as the year progressed the success of Internet companies began to wane. The hype surrounding it has gathered into a huge snowball, threatening to wipe out those who...

[December 8, 2000, 14:01]

HelpFirefox Site Goes Down

News HelpFirefox, the site launched last week to raise funds for Mozilla's Web browser Firefox, was a victim of its own success on Monday. The first 24 hours of this site has been a true success, with more than 13 800 pixels being sold.

[January 16, 2006, 16:50]

Microsoft Admits .Net Skills Shortage

News It's also possible that .Net is the victim of its own success. Mark Quirk, Microsoft UK's head of technology for development and platforms, admitted on Monday that there aren't enough developers in the market who can help companies migrate to .Net.

[November 9, 2005, 12:30]

Web's Oldest Magazines Shut Down

News Automatic, like hundreds of other less long-lived Web operations, was the victim of the online advertising slump that has accompanied the economic downturn in the US. Suck was one of the Web's earliest success stories.

[June 11, 2001, 16:56]

Klez Worm Refuses To Die

News Confusing matters, the e-mail will have a random "from" address, selected from various sources on the original victim's hard drive. In many cases, antivirus software protecting a company's e-mail gateways is sending out a response to each infected...

[May 20, 2002, 9:19]

Startup Spotlight: Human Search Engine Launches

News The Internet has become a victim of its own success, with lots of search engines struggling under the weight of its content," says Richard Barker, managing director of Questico. Questico.co.uk launches the first human search engine Monday, in which...

[October 24, 2000, 8:10]

North-south IT Pay Gap Widens

News He said: "In some respects London has become a victim of its own success. The north-south divide is widening for English IT professionals, with tech staff in the north of England taking home more than a third less in their pay packets than their...

[December 20, 2005, 15:25]

Confusion At BT Over Broadband Rollout

News A victim of its own success? BT Wholesale has calculated the "threshold levels" of the number of broadband customers needed for it to be economically viable for a local exchange to be upgraded. But different parts of BT appear to have different...

[July 4, 2002, 16:19]

Klez Overtakes SirCam In Virus Stakes

News In many circumstances, the worm doesn't need the victim to open it in order to run. The remarkable success of Klez.h is largely down to the different methods it uses to spread. In addition, it will use the addresses to create a fake "From:" field...

[May 28, 2002, 12:55]

Analysis: Acer, The Invisible Giant, Wants To Be Seen

News The world's second largest computer manufacturer, Acer, may be just another victim of the economic fire terrorising corporate bank accounts worldwide, but its latest strategy will, at worst, illustrate the firm's tenacity in difficult times.

[September 11, 1998, 13:20]

Wireless Can Be Worse!

Talkback In the busy city centre environment wireless has basically become a victim of its own success and switching back to cable is really the only solution. By the time we switched to Powerline our wireless computers were detecting ELEVEN other networks...

[September 10, 2008, 8:06]

The Slow Road To Windows XP

News Windows 2000 is, in some ways, also a victim of its own success. Use of Microsoft Windows XP has grown inside corporations, but a new study shows that nearly half of business PCs are still running the older Windows 2000.

[June 16, 2005, 11:20]

Intel Turns Up The Heat On AMD

News AMD's current pickle is the result of its success, which makes it a little easier to swallow for company executives. Success has its pitfalls, especially when you've awoken a sleeping giant. For the past two years AMD has made Intel, one of the...

[October 26, 2006, 14:50]

Symantec Admits To Customer Support Woes

News In a way, we were victims of our own success - our product has taken off faster than we can train enough support operatives. The security services provider has been experiencing difficulties in support for Enterprise Vault, a data management...

[May 9, 2006, 10:00]

Skype: Do You Get What You Pay For?

News In some way, Skype is victimised by its own success and, at 800,000 customers, it's among the most successful services of its kind ever. But that's clearly not enough, say industry insiders, competitors and -- judging by the firestorm of protest on...

[February 21, 2005, 11:55]

Energis, Colt Telecom Shares Rise On Takeover Speculation

News Though Energis isn't yet raking it in, it has had success in pursuing its business model of rolling out innovative telecommunications products in the UK, and similar services could make an impact in Europe.

[November 2, 1999, 11:35]

Yahoo! And AOL: Reversal Of Fortunes

News But the company quickly fell victim to a steep economic downturn and bitter corporate infighting. The company attributed much of this success to progress in its relationships with advertising agencies once snubbed and mishandled during the dot-com...

[January 21, 2003, 12:29]


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