When you buy goods with a credit card over the phone or on the Net, there is no human interaction, and therefore no one to deceive. The Law Commission has published a list of recommendations designed to create legislation to cope with modern credit...
The idea is to be seen as superior to market leaders such as Siebel and i2 with an in-built integration capability making a purchase easier. Challenging Siebel's CRM* It's not usually massively important news when that happens, but in this case the...
The company has partly streamlined its distribution network over the years by cutting out things like costly real-time human interaction. This month columnist Rene Carayol shares a worrying personal account and argues that the most successful...
By stepping into that market, Microsoft has moved into a realm of information technology long ruled by JD Edwards, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel. Another set is designed to help retailers track inventory and gather point-of-sale information.
Also giving people a laugh this week is the very politically incorrect eBay user from Bromley, Kent, who has put his "annoying girlfriend" up for sale on the popular auction site. UK police forces are currently toying with the idea of putting our...
By putting new interaction mechanisms together with new collaboration mechanisms we can start to present ways that will help us towards the delivery of real solutions in this as-yet uncharted human layer of the technology stack.