Information Age (London, UK) articles

Recent articles from Information Age (London, UK)

Man and machine.(how to improve user interaction using information technology)
February 10, 2006... Now that it is a multibillion-dollar company, launching new services every week, it is easy to forget why Google became so popular in the first place. When it first appeared in 1998, every other Internet company was trying to transform itself into a media giant, cluttering their pages with...

Smarter phone.
February 10, 2006... Vince Rogley, a manager at a chemical plant equipment maker, has just been upgraded. And he likes his new toy. Problems with the delivery of three dozen new mobile phones sent by Orange to Rogley and his colleagues has resulted in the mobile network service provider's customer service...

Wiki-wild world.
February 10, 2006... Collaborative working can be an arduous process. The scenario is all too familiar: emails get lost or accidentally deleted; versions of spreadsheets or word processing documents are fuddled; a member of the project team goes on leave and no one can access their files. Desperate for an...

Optimising performance.(role of technologies in organisation)
February 10, 2006... "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." The Charles Darwin mantra is a favourite of Noel Gorvett, group business systems manager at publisher, the Pearson Group, and for him it underscores how technologies that...

Seize the moment.
February 10, 2006... If Chris Slater knew that his company Experian was preparing a $485 million bid for the US-based price comparison website PriceGrabber.com when he spoke at the Information Age Business Intelligence conference in November, he did not give any indication of this. But the director of...