Stories by: Thomas Wailgum

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    Retailers Going Green, But Customers Remain Apathetic 20/11/2010 12:15:00

    You have to feel bad for most retailers: The global economy tanked in 2008, sales plummeted and many well-known chains went out of business. Today, shoppers have come to expect half-price sales on nearly everything in stock.
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    10 Ways To Know You're in the Twitter Twilight Zone 17/09/2010 00:13:00

    All too often, it seems like there's a full moon out when it comes to Twitter: People who use the microblogging service do some very strange things.
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    Starbucks CIO Brewing Up Much More than Free Wi-Fi 16/06/2010 05:26:00

    Yesterday, coffee-purveyor Starbucks reversed course on its long-standing in-store Wi-Fi policy by announcing that starting July 1, Wi-Fi would be free in all its U.S. establishments.
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    Taming the ERP Integration Beast: A Work in Progress 10/06/2010 07:25:00

    CIOs have been talking about enterprise application integration for as long as they've been talking about business-IT alignment or proving the value of the IT function. That is to say,for decades.
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    SAP Sapphire 2010: Observations, News and Tweets 21/05/2010 05:25:00

    SAP's annual Sapphire conference is over, and here's a round-up of some of the important news, announcements and high-tech happenings that came out of the show.
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    Holiday Travel: 10 Ways to Keep Your Laptop, Privacy Safe 25/11/2008 08:16:00

    Holiday travelers, hang onto your laptops: One is now stolen every 53 seconds. Here are 10 tips to keep your PC and data safe as we enter the busiest travel season of the year.
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    How 10 Famous Technology Products Got Their Names 13/11/2008 10:25:00

    Coming up with a great technology product or service is only half the battle these days. Creating a name for said product that is at once cool but not too cool or exclusionary, marketable to both early adopters and a broader audience, and, of course, isn't already in use and protected by various trademarks and copyright laws is difficult--to say the least.
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    20 crazy things people do to get Wi-Fi connections 21/08/2008 12:19:00

    In their quest to get Wi-Fi Internet connectivity, people have done some pretty desperate things over the years.
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    Wi-Fi wants to be free, but not all businesses agree 21/08/2008 11:54:00

    There's been an explosion in growth of Wi-Fi hotspots during the last several years. Best-guess estimates range from 33,000 WLAN hotspots worldwide to more than 250,000 at present.
 
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