The note of caution is not all that unusual, given it's in a prospectus: if your company made some outrageous claim promising to make millions from an unproven technology and then failed to do so, your shareholders' lawyers might get a bit twitchy.
Although not the only factor in driving internet users to broadband, file-sharing has proven to be broadband's first 'killer application,'" said Dan Stevenson, analyst at Jupiter Research, in a research note.
The three key means of managing forward and backward compatibility - dual protocol stack, tunneling and translation - can cause a headache for network management in terms of operation costs, staff training and troubleshooting.
But let me leave on one slightly optimistic note. Let's look to examples from the tech industry in the US we know so well. The US is littered with examples of comebacks. The shock resignation of Kingston Communications boss Steve Maine a couple of...
Editor's note: See our full coverage of ageism in IT. One reflection of this is the inability to attract women into IT, despite many proven examples of outstanding talent. And length of experience with a particular technology is no guide to...
Analyst house Gartner, however, said in a recent research note that IT staff were better off standardising users onto XP with SP2 than waiting for Longhorn before they upgraded. In a separate research note, the analysts added that deployment could...