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Bluetooth Single Chip Radios: Holy Grail or White Elephant?
White Papers The emerging Bluetooth market is highly cost sensitive and chip manufacturers are striving to produce the lowest priced components possible. Radio designers have proclaimed for years that the ultimate way to achieve the lowest cost and smallest...
[June 17, 2004, 0:01]
Businesses warned: Don't rush into Web 2.0
News Social networking could turn out to be a costly "white elephant" for businesses that rush to invest in the technology. The analyst recommends IT departments should think very carefully before committing to expensive "social-networking white...
[December 14, 2007, 7:45]
Rivals accuse BT of stifling Broadband Britain
Talkback BT is a big 'White Elephant (I had to deal with them for around 10 years until very recently). Unfortunately the rest of the industry who have employed many Ex BT staff, have taken on a corporate attitude similar to BT's.
[April 5, 2004, 14:21]
Very nice, but...
Talkback A great big expensive white elephant - while very nice to have it will not be of any practical use on the battlefield and not necessary at a Regimental Aid Post. While full medical records may be of (dubious) value at rear/base medical facilities...
[August 3, 2007, 21:47]
Hold on ??!
Talkback We were sold this white elephant partly on the basis that it was the same tech and so would be usable across the United States of Europe in place of a passport. The ID card is supposed to be based on the technology they used for the RFID passport.
[February 9, 2009, 16:11]
Expensive gimmick or real innovation
Talkback I am always a sucker for something new and flashy - and while Surface might turn out to be another Microsoft hardware white elephant - it's heartening to some degree to see Redmond sticking its neck out slightly with something a bit wacky and blue...
[October 3, 2007, 16:36]
The Majestic White Rhino Screensaver
Downloads Behind the elephant, it is probably the most massive remaining land animal in the world, along with the Indian Rhinoceros which is slightly larger. The Majestic White Rhino is a free that contains 23 high quality photographs.
[January 28, 2008, 14:20]
Audubon Close Up - Predators and Prey
Downloads The Audubon Close Up Series is designed to allow you to experience a close-up look at the plates, just as if you were turning the pages of the original Havell Elephant Folio Edition of 'Birds of America', and focusing in on sections of...
[November 5, 2002, 6:57]
Government tries to keep ID card costs secret
Talkback We all know that ID cards are set to be a hugely expensive and intrusive white elephant. Will they never learn that making such a big fuss about these things just makes what might previously have been a dry point scored by an MP, into a hugely...
[July 7, 2006, 12:04]
Blind Politicians, usless civil servants
Talkback Civil servants who all got promoted because they suceeded in getting another white elephant off the ground, the contractors raking in a great profit for doing what our Customs and Immigration Border Control should do and the Policician who is...
[November 10, 2008, 7:24]
Pathetic
Talkback Basically they have blown millions of dollars developing a white elephant, and the only way to sell it is to force it upon people. Is any one fooled by this so called back down by Microsoft. So XP stays on sale for another few months.
[September 28, 2007, 11:42]
Dell still gets thumbs up
Blog Comment With Vista scoring the system based on the lowest ranked component even novices will be able to see if they've been sold a white elephant. Very valid points. If I were kitting out an office my priorities would be reliability/low maintenance and I'd...
[October 16, 2007, 9:11]
Government under fire over ID cards
News The Conservative Party has already said it would scrap the ID card scheme if it wins the next general election, and shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, said the decision by the government not to make ID cards compulsory makes the scheme "even...
[July 2, 2009, 9:14]
Stern medicine needed for NHS IT failings
Leader Tony Blair will find it hard to eulogise about the reform of the health service if his opponents are ridiculing his £30bn white elephant -- and who can say for sure it will ever work? So the National Health Service IT project is going to cost up to...
[October 12, 2004, 13:20]
Home secretary defends high-street biometrics plans
News We would scrap this expensive white elephant and use the savings to do things that would actually improve our security," Grieve said. Home secretary Jacqui Smith has insisted biometrics taken from people in high-street businesses will be secure.
[November 7, 2008, 16:34]
For Clarity
Talkback Should I rehash the arguments against this expensive, unnecessary, dangerous white elephant? [[[ Kevin Barron told a Westminster Hall debate on the subject he thought it sad that some health professionals are actively campaigning against the record...
[March 3, 2008, 13:18]
ID cards for foreign nationals unveiled
News ID cards are an expensive white elephant that risks making us less, not more, safe. The Home Office unveiled ID cards for foreign nationals on Thursday, attracting protests from opposition parties and campaigners.
[September 25, 2008, 18:14]
Government overspends on IT by £1bn
News On the grounds of expense alone, the Government should do us all a favour and abandon this great white elephant before it is too late. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has gone the furthest over budget, overspending by £785m.
[May 11, 2007, 17:53]
Gates: Spam erodes trust in technology
News Spam has become the white elephant of the public and businesses as it has grown to overpower legitimate email in the last year. The torrent of unwanted, unsolicited, often offensive and sometimes fraudulent email is eroding trust in technology...
[May 22, 2003, 12:26]
Broadband boom gathers speed
News Iridium promised to be a "network in the sky", but turned out to be more of an orbiting white elephant, as the expensive system failed to get many subscribers and finally filed for bankruptcy soon after launch.
[November 21, 2000, 10:46]
