Information Age (London, UK) articles from December 2003

Information Age (London, UK) archives from December 2003

Vertical lift for IBM.(International Business Machines Corp.)
December 10, 2003... There will be those who say the strategy is wrong, and others who will say that they've seen and heard it all before. But taken at face value, it looks like a major restructuring is imminent at IBM's gigantic software and services divisions....

Symbian results provoke difference of opinion.
December 10, 2003... The business models of technology companies are sometimes so complex that even their financial results appear to throw little light on how well they are doing. And so it was in November when Symbian, the London based smartphone operating system...

Symantec joins the big league.(John Thompson gives keynote presentation at Comdex)
December 10, 2003... Not everyone gets to give a keynote presentation at Comdex, consistently one of the world's largest IT trade shows. Last month - joining such luminaries on stage as Bill Gates, Scott McNealy and Tom Siebel - that honour was afforded to John...

Troubled Bull at centre of fresh row.
December 10, 2003... Customers, employees and partners of Bull breathed a collective sigh of relief when unnamed sources within the European Commission (EC) indicated last month that they "welcomed" the French government's second and most recent rescue plan for the...

People power.
December 10, 2003... Standing side-by-side on a New York stage, not even the blinking flashbulbs of the press photographers could wipe the broad grins from the faces of Carly Fiorina and Michael Capellas. The CEOs of Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Compaq were...

The big picture.(Global IT Management: A Practical Approach)(Book Review)
December 10, 2003... Much of the house cleaning that has gone on in IT during the past two years has focused on one theme: centralisation. With many IT infrastructures having grown organically - some might say chaotically - around the turn of the decade, senior...

The new balance of power.
December 10, 2003... My first ever assignment as a journalist was to cover a meeting of DECUS UK, the Digital Equipment user group. Their special evening treat was an audience with Geoff Shingles, DEC's UK managing director. Without compunction, he launched...

Bill's China crisis.(Bill Gates)
December 10, 2003... On the morning of 29 March 2003, wire agencies and web sites in China carried solemn reports of the death of Microsoft's founder and chairman, Bill Gates. It was two hours before they realised they had been tricked. By then, news of the error...