Increased productivity through easy access to corporate systems, improved customer service delivered by field based staff and the continuous connectivity to email and other systems. In a peculiar turn of events last week, Microsoft told the world...
So far this quarter, Intel's communications chips have seen an anticipated uptick in sales while the chipmaker's Intel Architecture business, which includes PC processors and chipsets, has been performing above expectations.
Moving to a 90 nanometre chipmaking process means smaller transistors, which in turn means more transistors on a chip and better performing chips. Unlike PC processors, FPGA chips can be programmed to perform several different duties.
However, the field - once thin as borrowers favoured fixed repayment and endowment-based products - is getting more crowded, with around 20 companies, including Barclays with OpenPlan and HBOS with IF, breathing down the early leader's neck.
General Motors has purchased an IBM supercomputer capable of performing nine trillion calculations per second to speed up crash and safety simulations, a significant shot in the arm for Big Blue's supercomputer effort.
Typical characteristics of these better performing businesses are a higher degree of informality, open sharing of information between peers and networks of managers, a focus on the long-term and outcomes and a distrust of the status quo.